How *could* we make it more easy to deliver late-breaking deliverables?

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 24 16:04:46 UTC 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:50:02AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> >> release engineering. I think in an ideal world, that would be very
> >> nice, and not just release engineering. Once the changes are accepted
> >> by FESCo, everyone would look at them and say "okay, I see this needs
> >> to be done, and that's in my area, so I'll make sure that goes on my
> >> worklist".
> > Everyone look at them every time they change? There are days I barely
> > get time to read my email! Sorry I don't believe that to be scalable.
> I actually agree with this, I don't think it's realistic. We had an

To be clear, I *also* don't think it's realistic. (That context got
lost in the quoting.)

> I recently sent an RFC/Proposal email to the Rel-Eng list about using
> a kanban-style approach to projects[0] and using a task board with
> cards. I was curious if this is something that maybe would be useful
> for FESCo also to plan/track Releases on? Then Rel-Eng could be tagged
> on cards in the board that need attention, then that could trigger the
> discussion about what's needed. This would kind of centralize the
> discussion in one place and might help, thoughts?

I'm definitely in favor; also, I'm thinking it might be an area where
the Fedora Program Manager could provide some administrative
assistance, so tracking this "metawork" doesn't become an _extra_
burden on rel-eng.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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