Hi,
I'm unable to chair a sprint meeting next week, so Ryan has kindly
volunteered (*cough*) to organise it on my behalf.
Some thoughts on the April 2009 sprint[1]:
* With less than a week to go before a month has elapsed, there are
a frustrating number of tasks which are at 0% progress, have "?"s
still in their row and have generally been unmaintained - despite
them being committed to within the sprint process.
* Emails requesting that this chart get updated generally went
unheeded by almost everyone who had committed to tasks.
* Only one person reporting activity during the period referenced
a task ID, despite a perfectly reasonable request from the
community that that be done. It would not have caused _any_
(let alone significant) overhead.
* At least one "must" task (which was "definitely" committed to
in April) is listed as at 0%. Despite concerns being raised
about the feasibility of the task.
I would *much* rather things were debated when suggested rather than
just flat-out ignored. I would hope that people would come to the
sprint planning meeting in the next period with a fleshed out,
concrete proposal (as per the process[2]). Anything which is clearly
not achievable within 4 weeks should be challenged, and anything which
can have a note against it of "other than that this is [mostly] done".
Let's have discreet tasks at different priorities. If something *must*
be done, let it be registered as a task with that priority. If
something *should* be done, but it's not the end of the world if it
isn't: that's a different task.
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
PS. Please forward this to anybody you know who committed to a task
but is not subscribed to maemo-community.
PPS. Resending as there seems to be a "[email protected]"
in my address book; which doesn't work.
[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_Sprints/April_09
[2] http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_Sprints#Tasks
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Maemo Community Council chair
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