[This is a followup to the "Getting releases out" email I sent last
week in which I said I would start a thread on prioritizing the
features for 1.2. Unfortunately, I had to travel earlier this week,
and only am getting to this now. Sorry]
For the 1.2 release, we have decided to define the release in terms
of completed features (feature boxed). The means we need to decide
on the features we want to define this release. Normally, this type
of discussion quickly turns into a bike shed, and I ask all of you to
try to keep focused on our goal: a prioritized feature list. With
this in mind, I'd like us to divide this task into to a collection
phase and a separate prioritization phase.
Collection (9/28 - 10/2)
I have started a page in our development wiki (http://
cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/priorities-12.html) to collect an unsorted
list of features *you* would like to see in 1.2. Please, only add
the stuff *you* want to see in the 1.2 release. Please, do not add
duplicate entries, features already checked into trunk, add votes,
add your name to the page, or attempt to sort or prioritize the
list. We will handle all of that stuff in the next phase.
Prioritization (10/2 - 10/6)
Once we have the list, we will prioritize the list via a vote on
the dev list.
Finally, I will gather estimates about completing the features and we
may need to reprioritize, but that is for another day :)
Thanks in advance for you help on this issue,
-dain
