Hello Software Center devs! As many of you know from UDS discussions, we as Software Center developers are part of a Canonical-based upstream project and as such we will need to move to a somewhat more formal process for our development in the Precise cycle. This is based on an initiative that Rick Spencer introduced at UDS and that he's calling the Ubuntu Acceptance Criteria. As you know, Rick heads the Ubuntu Engineering team and so is ultimately responsible for the quality of the distribution. The idea of the Acceptance Criteria is to formalize the upstream development processes a bit with the goal of reducing the chance of bugs or regressions creeping into the distribution, even during the development cycle. The goal is a daily ISO that is always installable and always working.
And make no mistake, the idea here is to increase development velocity by increasing code quality and knowledge sharing, etc. It is most definitely *not* intended to slow things down with heavyweight processes. In fact, the changes for our team will likely be fairly minimal as we already have all of the important pieces in place in our process today (code reviews, automatic unit tests, etc.). Further, we, as a team, have the freedom to implement the processes in such a way as we see fit to make them work best for *our team*. The idea is to *increase* the enjoyment and satisfaction we all get from our work on Software Center. If at any point anyone feels like the opposite is happening, let's talk about it right away and fix it. For background, here's the wiki page describing the new Acceptance Criteria: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEngineering/12.04/UpstreamDevelopment And here is the page that describes the various upstream projects involved, including Software Center: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEngineering/12.04/UpstreamDevelopment/ProjectTracking Finally, as kiwinote and nzmm already know (as they were sitting with me after a UDS session), Jason Warner asked me to write up a wiki document describing our development policies, as the other upstream projects have been doing. If you have some time, I'd appreciate if you could look this document over and let's have a discussion about anything that you think ought to change or that I did not get right. You'll note the document is labeled a "draft", that's because it will not be final until it reflects the policies as defined by our entire team, not just one member. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/ProjectPolicies Thanks! As always, you guys ROCK!! Gary _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
