On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Aymeric Augustin <[email protected]> wrote: > 2014-09-02 15:33 GMT+02:00 Tom Evans <[email protected]>: > >> this story was scored >> at 8 points, it took a junior developer much longer than 8 points and >> wasn't finished in a single sprint - and 1.3->1.4 was *easy* > > > I don't know how much a point or a sprint is worth in this context :-/
Sorry, context is important! "A sprint" ~ 9 work days, points vary wildly from sprint to sprint unfortunately - 12 is about a sprints worth of work. > <snip> Good steps. > > Did your junior developer follow a similar process? If he did, what took > them > so long? > > What I want to understand is how much of an advantage I have when it comes > to > upgrading Django. What do I know that isn't written down and makes it so > hard > for others? I think it was more distraction by topics he had not come across. We set him off by saying "look at the release notes, go thru each change in turn, see if we are affected and what we need to fix it". The problem then was that he was new. He hadn't had to deal too much with TZ support, so adding TZ support to our project meant a day of learning about how TZ work in UNIX. Similarly, changing the project layout is a good thing, but then he spent a day learning about package layouts - not a bad thing by any means, but in the 1.3 -> 1.4 release there are 75 similarly complex enhancements/deprecations/incompatibilities - it just takes some time to go through if you have not come across that topic before, eg, clickjacking. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFHbX1%2B%2Bzdz0GK2jvJJ5tH1zLAi3agc3JNFhN4nWEXBBaLPATw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
