ahoy! Today I created two new boards:
- 14.10 Deadlines & Quality (as previously seen for 14.04 this is to manage things that need to be done around a certain point in time) - Epics Epics is an entirely new board supposed to contain large cards that do not necessarily contribute to the upcoming release but are long term targets we need to work on. Ultimately we'd end up in a situation where the regular 14.10 board's todo is almost always empty and whenever it is empty we'd work on epics instead (alas, right now I don't see that happening because of the amount of cards in the regular board :'<). Example for Epics: An epic for example is "Port all our stuff to Qt5", porting for the most part is not critical for 14.10 and probably not even 15.04, also this is really 5 cards in one. These attributes make this card an epic card rather than a regular one. Whenever we can squeeze work on this card in the schedule we should do so to progress it in baby steps rather than not at all. To support this baby step approach I would like to encourage people to create new cards on the per-release boards or even entire boards if they feel that they need to track more things. It greatly helps with not loosing track :) Why Epics? The motivation behind epic cards comes from a number of things: a) prevent relase critical cards from drowning in a bunch of epic cards that will not ever get done in one cycle anyway b) enable everyone to pick and schedule cards according to the available time c) as mentioned initially, ultimately we'd want to reach a point where the release specific board stops piling up cards Where do Epics rate in a priority ordered list? Deadlines > 14.10 > Epics > random QA (bug triage etc) What if Epics don't work out? This entire thing is very much a test run for this cycle, if it doesn't end up giving us the intended advantage we'll merge epics back into normal cards for 15.04. Please note that we'll then have to do *at least* one meeting per cycle to review *all* cards to reorganize and abandon stuff (i.e. clean out rubbish). Otherwise we'll soon enough have 100 cards before the next development cycle even starts and nothing of importance will ever get done in time again. Please ask if you have any questions https://trello.com/kubuntu HS -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
