Fedora Projects Tooling Meeting

[Adam Miller]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:11:16PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
>> > OR, do we want to do this entirely differently, with one "release
>> > engineering" project and all releng tasks for all of everything
>> This would be my preference but I'm not sure if everyone would agree.
>> On my old team we would use "tags" to define if a card belongs to a
>> project and just prepend it to the title of the card. So something
>> like "[TwoWeekAtomic] Task 1" for example, and then there would be a
>> project card with an explanation of the project and a list of tasks
>> (with links to cards associated with tasks). That would allow us to
>> quickly see project status and track related tasks on the board.
>> Just a suggestion. I'm open to alternatives though.
>
> I wish we could have both views at once. I think the "all work on one
> wall" approach works well for a single team dedicated to that work, but
> I'm not sure how to track something like this with it.
>
> A) There's plenty of work that will be not relevant to someone invested
> in this change but not releng overall. I don't see an easy way in Taiga
> to filter the Kanban board by tags, making hard to see the state of
> _this_ project.
>
> B) On the other side, there's plenty of work in this project that isn't
> release engineering. Where does that work get tracked? Say, for
> example, someone from Websites, or perhaps (wholly theoretically) a UX
> designer from Atomic who is making a first contribution to Fedora
> through this project — where does their work get tracked?
>
>
> If the filtering were better (and perhaps I'm just missing something)
> we could solve B by declaring that we're going to track the change as a
> Rel-Eng project, and that everyone involved should see themselves
> through that lens. For these two changes (Two-Week Atomic, Layered
> Images) that might just be okay — perhaps even with the lack of
> filtering. But does it scale to _all_ of the Changes?

I think that's going to be hard to predict unless someone goes through
and tries mocking it all up in Taiga which is probably a pretty big
time sink.

-AdamM

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