Re: [dev-servo] Weekly status updates

2016-09-22 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
I'm not a Servo person, but... I think hand-written updates are *much* better than auto-generated updates, because you can put interesting context and background into hand-written updates. (In my long experience at Mozilla I enjoy reading hand-written updates of various kinds, but auto-generated

Re: [dev-servo] Weekly status updates

2016-09-22 Thread Josh Matthews
As one of the regular users of the existing service, I agree with Nick. I have appreciated the concise but informative updates from other Servo developers, especially during periods when I've had my attention split between Servo and Gecko. I also keep a text file where I add bullet points for

Re: [dev-servo] Weekly status updates

2016-09-22 Thread Manish Goregaokar
I've always liked the idea of standu.ps with the IRC bot reporting. Large tasks may become tricky with standups. AIUI you ping the standups bot when you finish a task, but for long running tasks (large PRs, etc) you can't do this so easily. With statusupdates I just add an entry "worked more on

Re: [dev-servo] Weekly status updates

2016-09-22 Thread Michael Howell
I just found out that it's open to the community to submit to, not just Mozilla employees. Now that I realized I could actually sign in using Mozillians, I'll actually start submitting there. :-) On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:34 AM Manish Goregaokar wrote: > I've always liked