Hi All, We had an internal kick off meeting for next release planning on Wed. October 15.
Starting next week, this will become a public Future Features planning meeting every Wed at 2PM US ET on IRC channel #olpc-meeting freenode.net I call it Future Feature planning instead of 9.1.0 and plan to move the web page to that name as well. The idea is that we need to layout a long term strategy first, then decide which parts can be executed in the strict 9.1.0 time frame (March, 2009 delivery). That way we can track work that may take longer than the span of a single release. Very condensed minutes of yesterdays meeting are below. This is my rough take so any edits or additions welcome - Mitch and others talked about the importance of starting with the customer, finding out what they need and hearing from them directly. How to get comprehensive input and to then filter it in to a set of to items which the most benefit for the most people. - We talked about how to find a feature "champion" and also a programmer and the two may not be the same. No consensus on exactly what the champion will do. - We talked about the need to lay out a strategic direction (see above) more than a list of 9.1 features. - We talked about what and how to have a future features planning conference November 17 - 21 (see action items below for next communication on this). - Jim mentioned the need to plan in person meeting more in advance and more than just the next one. e.g. start thinking now about one in January (around Fudcon?). Action items: AI : Greg will send an e-mail asking for call for proposals for November meeting (called XOcamp). AI : Ed and Kim will talk together about support and deployment input and ensure that it gets included. AI for everybody: Read and update wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0 Next meeting Wed. October 22 at 2PM US ET IRC channel #olpc-meeting on freenode.net Agenda for next week: - Take wiki, input from call for proposals and input from Kim and Ed and make a draft agenda for November 17 - 21 meeting. Thanks, Greg S PS - Just like that, 8.2 is in the can and we start on the next one! ;-) On a personal note, thanks a lot for the super hard work everyone on this list has done recently. More notes of appreciation and recognition will be forthcoming. For me, 8.2 was a warm up to help me gauge our capacity (btw its awesome!). Take a breath now if you can, the really exciting work is just starting... _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel