Reusing old specs

[Neal McBurnett]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:51:16AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:59:30PM +0200, Przemys??aw Kulczycki wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I have a suggestion for development of Intrepid Ibex.
> > The Ubuntu's blueprints page currently lists over 2000 specs.
> > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu
> > Some of them are implemented, but not marked as such.
> > Some of them have been deferred, but are not marked as such.
> > Some of them became obsolete.
> > And finally some of them might be good for Ubuntu 8.10, at least after  
> > some cleanups.
> > Maybe a separate spec should be created to cleanup old specs?
> > Good but old ideas shouldn't be forgotten nor stopped in the middle.
> 
> It does seem some cleanup could be beneficial.  In going through the
> blueprints looking for Xorg-related ones, I've assembled a list of ones
> that look like Duplicate/Obsolete ones here:
> 
>   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Blueprints
> 
> 
> Hopefully now that we have brainstorm.ubuntu.com, that will serve as a
> better forum for raw ideas, and blueprints will become used less for
> that and more for detailed proposals.

Yes - it is very hard to see which blueprints are still in play.

It is also hard to find what other people are preparing to discuss.  A
week away, and no specs have been approved yet:

 https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-intrepid

Another thing that would help a lot is if launchpad could let us see
which blueprints have been _proposed_ for a sprint:

 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/blueprint/+bug/111610
which is a dup of
 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/blueprint/+bug/66093

so we'd know we didn't have to duplicate work that has already been
done, or we could prepare and discuss things more easily before the
meeting.

Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/