On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Joey Stanford <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > >>> A developer assigns the BP to themselves and retargets the BP out of >>> the backlog milestone and into the current monthly milestone. >> >> Sorry, in what state do they do this? Does it stay in 'backlog' until >> accepted upstream? > > BPs that are created each quarter by new Roadmap cards go into the backlog. > At the end of the quarter we clean out the backlog to make room for > the next quaters BPs.
Diversion: blueprints can be created at any time and are lodged into the backlog. Blueprints may result from splitting cards as the result of investigation. >> How does someone else tell if a blueprint is free > > If a BP is in the backlog milestone then it by definition means that > it's not being worked on. Ideally an engineer would go visit the > backlog and grab the next highest priority item off it. However what I > suspect will happen, and this is certainly very good as well, is that > you as the TL may choose to assign a BP to an engineer in advance. > > Think of it like airplanes in a holding pattern over an airport. Once > the tower is ready to do something with an airplane they move it out > of the holding pattern and put it on approach. We're doing same > things. BPs in the backlog are BPs in a holding pattern until > resources free up to work on them. > >> How do I tell what is in progress and what is blocked >> upstream? > > The monthly milestone view. You move a BP from the backlog milestone > to your current monthly milestone. It will tell you want's done, in > progress, and blocked for that month. Yip, so that fits my original method. So my question stands: we don't control upstream and can't assign a blueprint to a monthly milestone as we don't have control over when it will actually land. How should this be handled? -- Michael _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-project-management Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linaro-project-management More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
