On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 00:40, David Farning<[email protected]> wrote: >> This thread is an attempt to help clean up a couple of issues that >> have been cropping up over the past couple of months. >> >> There have been a couple of instances of suboptimal communication >> between different parts of the project. >> >> Several times recently, external organizations have been looking for a >> big picture view of what is happening at Sugar Labs. >> >> The .84 release was pretty easy to coordinate. The development team >> picked a release date about six months after .82. The developers >> followed the time line pretty well. Simon did a fantastic just with >> just a stick and a handful of carrots as release manager getting >> getting the release shipped on time. The only two external >> organizations we worked with closely were Fedora and OLPC. >> >> With the midterm release of Strawberry, we have seen the importance of >> improving communication with more internal groups and external >> organizations. >> >> Internally, we have seen the importance of synchronizing development, >> marketing, and the project as a whole's time lines and goals. >> >> Externally, we have seen a significant increase in external >> organization participation. Several university have express >> interested in working with SL. Several distributions are becoming >> more involved. Several new pilots and deployments are participating in >> Sugar development rather than just consuming Sugar. >> >> A first step will be to start working on project and team level road >> maps which assign dates and champions to significant events. >> >> Sugar Labs and each team already have roadmap pages listed. Over the >> next couple of weeks, I would like to work with the development, SoaS, >> marketing, infrastructure teams to create roadmaps and goals. (This >> is not to exclude any other teams participation.) >> >> Then using iteration and project level goals we can start linking the >> roadmaps together. > > Sounds great! > > Tomeu > There is now a very rough draft/outline at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Roadmap .
I'll continue hacking away at it and linking to team roadmaps. As always, I try to focus on what is fair, sane, implementable as starting points. There is a good change I am wrong and/or missing important bits. There is a _very_ good chance this is suboptimal. david -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
