[Squeakfoundation]Shepherding large enhancements

[Daniel Vainsencher]

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.

Daniel

Doug Way <dway at 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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