Managing Status reporting and work backlog items

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Sounds like a good idea.

gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
On Jun 11, 2012 12:51 PM, "Mark Ramm" <mark.ramm-christnesen at canonical.com>
wrote:

>  I raised this briefly on IRC this morning, but wanted to start a quick
> discussion about how we can help folks outside of our team understand the
> status of the go port and any other work (MongoDB trial, etc) that needs to
> be done between now and 12.10.
>
> Rick Spencer showed me a tool that looks at the work items field in LP
> blueprints like this one:
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-arm-deployment
>
> where each "todo" item is just a line like this:
>
> [mark-mims] Charm testing on ARM (emulation only): TODO
> [ikepanhc] Add highbank kernel to quantal: DONE
> [rbasak] Port highbank support to new flash-kernel: DONE
> [rbasak] Enable highbank installer images: DONE
>
>
> and creates fancy charts:
>
>
> http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/group/topic-quantal-servercloud-arm.html
>
> Which roll up to higher level reporting on the release status:
>
> http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-server.html
> http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/
>
> Since the goal here is just to provide communication to the rest of the
> company on our status as efficiently as possible it seems to me to make
> sense to re-use as much of this reporting infrastructure as we reasonably
> can.
>
> We could create a Juju-Core topic with some basic blueprints for the high
> level items that need to be ported over to Go, or done in this cycle, and
> then just add a few work items for each of the blueprints and mark them off
> as we complete them.   I doubt this would take more than a few minutes a
> week, and it would help the rest of the organization fell like they have
> some visibility into what we are all working on.
>
> It will also help us to have some visibility into the backlog of work as
> we work through the process of prioritizing incoming requests against our
> existing workload.
>
> --Mark Ramm
>
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