On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:18:21PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:53:25PM -0300, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > Anne Gentle wrote: > > > - Less than 1 in 4 blueprints is created before the devel > > > period starts for a release. > > > > > > I find this date mismatch especially intriguing, because the Foundation > > > and member company sponsors spend millions on Design Summits annually > > > and caters so much to getting people together in person. Yet the > > > blueprints aren't created in enough detail for discussion before the > > > Summit dates? Is that really what the data says? Is any one project > > > skewing this (as in, they haven't been at a Summit or they don't follow > > > integrated release dates?) > > > > That does not surprise me. A lot of people do not link a blueprint to > > their session proposal on the design summit session suggestion system -- > > sometimes it's the discussion itself which allows to formulate the right > > blueprints, and those are filed in the weeks just after the summit. And > > I think that's fine. > > > > It would be more interesting to check how many blueprints are created > > more than two weeks after the design summit. Those would be the late > > blueprints (or the ones created as a tickbox), which escape the release > > planning process. > > I'll look up the historic dates for each summit, and try to generate > some stats based on blueprint creation date vs summit date + 2 weeks.
Re-running using the summit date + 2 weeks shift things a little bit. Here is the summary for 3 most recent series: Series: folsom all Specs: 177 Specs (no URL): 145 Specs (w/ URL): 32 Specs (Before Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000): 62 Specs (After Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000): 115 Average lines: 5 Average words: 54 Series: grizzly all Specs: 255 Specs (no URL): 187 Specs (w/ URL): 68 Specs (Before Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000): 81 Specs (After Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000): 174 Average lines: 6 Average words: 61 Series: havana all Specs: 470 Specs (no URL): 378 Specs (w/ URL): 92 Specs (Before Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000): 197 Specs (After Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000): 273 Average lines: 6 Average words: 69 Full data set for version 3 of the stats is now here http://berrange.fedorapeople.org/openstack-blueprints/v3/ Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
