On Apr 23, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:

> Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>> On Apr 23, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>>
>>> Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
>>>> I added a "Documentation" milestone and component. Rushing ahead
>>>> to do
>>>> other useful stuff instead of staying behind perfecting  
>>>> documentation
>>>> can't be helped IMO, but filing a ticket is much easier to do and
>>>> such a
>>>> list is probably very useful.
>>>>
>>>> I could even much easier add the actual documentation text as I go
>>>> to a
>>>> ticket, which has much lower startup overhead than editing the
>>>> documentation itself.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if I'm wrong and should remove it again :-)
>>
>> No, that's a very good idea.
>>
>>> Also I propose that every such ticket has a "Since" field in the
>>> description field. E.g. for packed structs I stated our next  
>>> release.
>>>
>>> http://trac.cython.org/cython_trac/ticket/294
>>
>> Isn't this redundant with the milestone field?
>
> I'm sure it can be discussed, but that's an emphatic "no" from me.
>
> Milestones are mainly for scheduling -- scheduling work and scheduling
> branches. If I assigned a doc ticket to 0.11.2, I think that's the  
> same
> as saying "we want to see if we can get this documented before we
> release 0.11.2". Which is silly at this stage. (But e.g. in Sage you'd
> easily do something like that, i.e. "we want documentation to have  
> this
> quality before releasing". Like the doctests goals.)
>
> What I want with the "Since" field is to have that more or less
> literally end up in the documentation.
>
> Example: I could create a new doc ticket now for something in buffers
> which I remembered, assign it to milestone 0.12 because I'd really  
> like
> to get it done by the 0.12 release, but have a "Since" field of 0.10
> since the feature happened to be available by then.

Ok, you're just proposing a since field for documentation tickets.  
Yes, that makes more sense now.

- Robert

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