I guess another way of putting it is "Does this make us too focused?"
On 29 November 2012 14:56, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been thinking about it an perhaps assigning a particular number of > bugs to each milestone isn't really necessary. Instead of targeting 50 GTK+ > bugs, why don;t we just say that we're going to look closely at GTK+. > > We could look at GTK+, Compiz, and a four or five other apps, and we'll > just make sure it all adds up to 100 by the end of the cycle. > > How does that sound? > > > On 29 November 2012 14:20, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I really like this idea of having a "focused" cycle for an app in >> particular, try to clear the backlogs a bit, but also be capable of >> identify and "spin off" more critical core problems out of the scope, keep >> track of them and help fixing them. >> >> I'm not completely sure about the allocation of development cycles to GTK+ >> as a goal. As Timoty pointed out, this bugs can be difficult to find and >> target if you're not tracking another bug already. I was thinking of it >> more like a buffer of "spare cycles" to have in case you need to spin off >> some issue. >> >> But, hey! Lets try! I was not sure about the "application focus" thing and >> now I love it! >> >> >> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:28:56 -0800 (PST), Timothy Arceri >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi Chris, >> > Looks good. I'll try target a few more GTK bugs later on >> > today. I'm not sure if we will be able to target 50 directly from whats >> > already in the GTK package bug lists. But as we have already found a lot >> of >> > them are hidden away under other projects so it may take a little bit of >> > detective work to uncover them. >> > Anyway I really like the direction we are heading for this realese, a >> lot >> > of the bugs we have targets have been around for many many years so this >> > papercuts release cycle should have a real impact on the user experence. >> > >> > Keep up the good work guys, >> > Tim >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> >> > To: Ubuntu Papercuts Ninjas <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2012 10:17 AM >> > Subject: [Papercuts-ninja] Milestone reorganisation. >> > >> > >> > Hey Ninjas, >> > >> > In the meeting we had last week, we decided it would be a good idea to >> > move our focus away from a handful of individual apps and onto the UI >> > foundation technologies found in Ubuntu. This came up after a number of >> our >> > Rhythmbox and Nautilus paper cuts turned out to be GTK+ bugs, so we >> decided >> > that GTK and Compiz would be our primary target for this (and >> potentially >> > all future) development cycles. >> > >> > So I'm proposing the following >> > 1) We allocate half a development cycle to GTK+, that is 50 paper cuts. >> > 2) We allocate a quarter of a development cycle to Compiz, that is 25 >> > paper cuts. >> > 3) We allocate the remaining quarter of the cycle to the biggest, >> juiciest >> > paper cuts we can find in Ubuntu's frontline apps. >> > 4) I've also kept around the Rhythmbox and Nautilus milestones, since we >> > had already started work on them. >> > >> > I'd like to blog about this change in a couple of days, and before that >> > I'd like to got some feedback from you lot. How does the new layout >> look? >> > >> > What now >> > I've targeted a lot of bugs while reorganising the milestones, mostly to >> > Nautilus, and it's probably that a lot of them are actually GTK+ bugs. >> We >> > should take a look at the currently targeted ones and make sure they're >> > where they're supposed to be. >> > >> > As for the Compiz paper cuts, MRC1, if that is your real name, you >> > mentioned the existence of a lot of simple Compiz paper cuts. Can you >> > please target as many of these bugs that are also manifesting as paper >> cuts >> > in Unity to the Compiz milestone? >> > >> > Also, could our GTK+ ninjas please fill up the GTK+ milestone with as >> many >> > paper cuts as possible? We've only got a few and I'm sure there's tons >> of >> > them out there. >> > >> > So, thoughts anyone? >> > >> > Chris >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~papercuts-ninja >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >
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