Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
I think you're completely right. Of these big projects, the ones that moved are the ones that had a harvester actively looking out for them, and moving them forward process wise.
As someone doing some of this, I don't think we can "assign" anyone to work on these. Its more a question of whether other harvesters actually want to get involved with this aspect of the process.
Right. For example, I was going to look at the Accufonts item tonight/tomorrow, so I can be the shepherd for that one.
You (Daniel) are already the shepherd of sorts for the remaining KCP items, and Goran is for SM 1.1.
I think this is the reason Craig's simulator fixes haven't made it in yet, for example... no one's moving that one forward. It sounds like someone in Berne (Alexandre?) was using the fixes with success. Shepherding that one would simply be a matter of emailing with Alexandre and getting him to post his feedback to the list, or posting it for him, and then announcing a decision on the list that this feedback should be enough to warrant that the changes go in (if the feedback is indeed good enough). Then I can add the changes in the next batch of updates. Perhaps Craig or Tim would be interested in following up on this?
It would also be good if someone could volunteer to shepherd TrueTypeTextStyle and Diego's look enhancements. Although it's getting a bit late for 3.6alpha if we're moving to beta on Friday, but who knows...
- Doug
Daniel
Doug Way dway@riskmetrics.com wrote:
1 Removals 2 KCP 3 MCP 4 Anthony runtime enhancements (split in two - fixes and closures) 5 Craig's simulator fixes 6 mir Network rewrite 7 TrueTypeTextStyle 8 Diego look style enhancements 9 Replace fonts with AccuFonts (mainly in order to remove the old - people can now load additional nice fonts themselves anyway). 10 SM 1.1 11 Inclusion of SM plus related packages in the release image (though maintained as packages, not directly by update stream).
Here's our current 3.6 plan list of larger enhancements/tasks. Right now, we have 4 1/2 of these done... maybe we'll get a couple more in before the end of the week. They've been moving along somewhat slowly for various reasons.
For larger enhancements, specifically these ones singled out for the 3.6 release, I wonder if it would help to assign a guide or harvester as a "shepherd" for each one. Someone who would be responsible for tracking progress on the enhancement and deciding when enough review has happened and when it's ready to go in. Right now, there's not really anyone responsible for most of these, so it sort of falls to me to make sure something happens, or a random person complaining on one of the mailing lists. I don't really have time to handle all of these myself.
I remember Goran hinted at something like this with his PROP proposal or whatever it was. But just something simple like assigning people to shepherd these items might help things get done.
Does this make sense?
- Doug
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