So I saw that Vladimir removed the milestone on some issues, but he wasn't nearly as aggressive as I would have hoped, so I just went through myself, and removed the milestone from many issues, and postponed some others. What remains are eight issues, two of which could be further postponed if necessary (2726 and 2142), two which I left because I wasn't sure if they should block or not (2070 and 2598), and one which needs a decision (1735).
Regarding milestone labels, from now on, do not add a milestone label to an issue unless it should block on that release, i.e., we need to start some deprecation cycle or for some similar reason. Adding the label won't make it be fixed any faster, since we are just a volunteer project, and as far as I know, no one really goes through and tries to fix issues with higher priority just because they have high priority. The milestone should not be used as a "it would be nice to have this by then," because as we have seen, it will not happen, or if it does, it certainly won't be because of the milestone. If you do feel that an issue is important, but shouldn't block a release, raise the priority. Note that I do have it set that priority-critical issues automatically add the milestone-release label for the next release. These should be for such issues that we could not possible even postpone the release milestone (like some test failure or something). Finally, I think the descriptions for the priority labels should be reworded. They currently say: Priority-Critical = Must resolve in the specified milestone Priority-High = Strongly want to resolve in the specified milestone Priority-Medium = Normal priority Priority-Low = Might slip to later milestone But this fits with the old way of doing things, where we have milestones that we never really reach, which we have seen is not very useful. So what would others recommend the descriptions of these be changed to? Aaron Meurer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
