Hi, I just noticed that our bugtracker has a very nice feature which we do not use: The "Roadmap":
If you assign a "Target Version" to bugs then you get a nice progress bar for each product version which the system has stored so you can see how "far" you are. To see what it looks like, choose WoT as project and go to Roadmap, I have assigned a target version for most of the issues. *Of course* this will not make the work which we have to do less, yet having a *overview* of work helps managing it and also helps motivating yourself: Everyone should know the effect of breaking stuff down into small pieces, it feels like it is less work if you can continously solve small pieces / tasks and mark them as finished. If you get a progress bar you can motivate yourself even more. Further, I think one thing which the Freenet project is struggling with is a general lack of concentration on ESSENTIAL TODOs. Everyone is just implementing new features all the time and old issues do not get fixed. And we do not have an overview of what needs to be done before we can release a new version. This generates the atmosphere of PRESSURE: Insane amounts of work which nobody knows about how much it is and donations running out, etc. Therefore I suggest that we decide what the next officially released versions will be and assign a target version for all bugs/issues in the tracker to decide what will be in the next version, in the version after that, etc. An easy point to start at would be the "0.7.1 priorities" issue in the tracker: Clearly all bugs which are "related" to that issue should be actually configured to have target version 0.7.1. I would have assigned them the target version right now but there are two issues: 1. Everyone has been talking about 0.8.0 being our next major release, is this true? I would vote for skipping 0.7.1 because in the next major release we can bundle WoT/Freetalk and therefore the version number should suggest major changes, which "0.7.1" does not. 2. The bugtracker does not show the "Update Issue" button to me at closed issues for Freenet, only for WoT, so I guess that I am lacking the permissions ;) Closed issues should of course also be updated, otherwise we will start at 0%. Further, there is one important thing to be mentioned: The target version is probably not set on any issues because in the default configuration of mantis you just do not see that setting when reporting/editing issues, you need to go to advanced mode first. I suggest everyone to enable it by default: Go to "My Account", then to "Preferences", then check "Advanced Report", "Advanced View", "Advanced Update". ... so I suggest we now use the bugtracker to really decide what needs to be done and what not, create a compact yet suffcient roadmap for 0.8.0 and implement it. Greetings, xor
