On 2006.10.04 15:27, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
[snip]
I'll give you Release Engineering's "status reports" for September,
October, and November:
September: taking a well-deserved break
October: taking a well-deserved break
November: taking a well-deserved break
How about other projects that rely on things like upstream's release
cycle? What about projects that just maintain ebuilds?
Here's the games team's "status reports" for every month:
"Fixed more bugs, added more packages, cleaned up some ebuilds."
Now, perhaps what everyone would like, instead, would be status
reports
*where necessary* from certain projects?
In fact, the council has been discussing asking a few projects about
the
status on some of their tasks. The main reason for this is for
communications purposes. Basically, we'd just get a "Hey, where are
you
at on $x?" response from the teams.
I don't *want* to drown projects in bureaucracy and paperwork. I want
them to *accomplish* things, instead.
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation
Before you can have useful reports, you need a plan to report against.
Like a target date for 2007.0 and its contents. Such a plan depends on
other projects delivering the contents in accordance with their own
plans. Like real life, these plans will have external dependencies on
$UPSTREAM, that Gentoo has little or no control over.
With progress reports against plans and updated plans, everyone can see
whats happened, why some things haven't and what the fallback is, if
one is required.
The old saw, "If you don't have a plan, then plan to fail" remains true
for volunteer projects as well as funded ones.
The content and update rate of plans/reports can vary from project to
project and it need not be onerous. Reporting can even be by exception,
so to take your "well-deserved break" example, if it was in your plan,
no report would be needed.
Regards,
Roy Bamford
(NeddySeagoon)
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