+1 for me A few minor advantages which I have found for myself: When I write documentation, I tend to find out about bugs and usability issues because I'm forced to see things through the user's eyes.
I am proud of my work so I tend to do a much better job of explaining it as the developer who wrote it than could an RM. Obviously as an RM, I want to have all of the material at hand so release is trivial. Caleb On 09/28/2011 01:28 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > Sergiu has started a script to fully automate a release (more to come - > Sergiu will document what it does soon). The only part not automated are the > Release Notes. > > IMO we can "automate" it by a process which I propose to be: > > * An issue can only be closed if it's documented on xwiki.org and on the > release notes page for the upcoming release. > * We collectively enforce this by reopening issues if someone doesn't do the > first point, asking him/her to do it > > This will have some nice effects: > * xwiki.org will be more up to date than it is now > * it's up to the developer to document what they do (I don't think it's good > to push this to someone else) which is good since they have the most > knowledge (side note: it doesn't mean we don't need a technical writer to > improve on the documentation done by developers but it would be about style > and not about content) > * the release notes will be ready for the release, as we progress and the > burden of writing the release notes will not fall on the shoulders of the > Release Manager (there's no reason it should) > * the whole release process will almost be a joy to do > * with a fully automated release process it means we'll be able to perform a > lot more bugfix releases which is good for our users > > Here's my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
