I'm not a Servo person, but... I think hand-written updates are *much* better than auto-generated updates, because you can put interesting context and background into hand-written updates. (In my long experience at Mozilla I enjoy reading hand-written updates of various kinds, but auto-generated ones I invariable ignore.) They're a great way to communicate what you've been doing to other people. They're also a good way to be aware of your own progress and self-motivate, e.g. "that was a really productive week" or "that was a crappy week, I'll try to do better next week".
I also don't think a weekly update is onerous. I have a calendar reminder which means I don't forget it. I have a text file in which I write down things when I land them. I have a Bugzilla search that finds patches I've landed in the past 7 days which I use to check if I've forgotten to add anything to the text file. So when I go to submit my update it's already 90% complete. The whole thing accounts for maybe 10 minutes of effort a week. Maybe I'm a paragon of organization and efficiency, but it really doesn't seem that hard. For employees in particular, "keep your colleagues informed" is a basic responsibility and this is an easy and effective way to do it. As for moving to a different system -- are there any features that Status Updates is missing? It's not a complicated thing. Does it need more than a textbox and a "send" button? Nick On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Lars Bergstrom <larsb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I've noticed that while some people are still submitting their weekly > status updates on http://statusupdates.dev.mozaws.net/ (thank you!), > it's both not everybody and we're missing a bunch of the more active > community members who might like to highlight their work. > > I'd love to either get that moving again or move to something that > people like more (e.g., edunham suggested http://standu.ps/ ). > > I find this really useful on the team so that we all know what each > other are working on, especially since we cancelled the weekly > meeting. It's also included externally in "This Week in Servo" so > others get a sense for what's in progress but not yet landing. > Finally, internally it's helpful for people funding the project to > have a general sense for what everybody's doing without having to ask > myself or Jack :-) > > Opinions? I'm also open to pushback here that status reporting is too > much work and larsberg should just be scraping scraping harder on > GitHub. > > Thanks, > - Lars > _______________________________________________ > dev-servo mailing list > dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
