Creating new task

Gaurav Shukla gshukla66 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 17:59:52 UTC 2015


Hi Nicholas,

Thanks for the prompt reply, I've marked the follow up as an optional task,
and I think now it better fits the scope of a single task, suggest any
further modifications if you feel so.

I'll create a new task for Desktop effects package.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

> I'll reply to the list also, to clarify.
>
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Gaurav Shukla <gshukla66 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I was trying to create a few tasks under the category outreach and
>> research and one more in the documentation.
>>
>> I have a few questions, I want an outreach task to be spread over 2 weeks
>> but the form allows a maximum time of 7 days so I've decided to break it
>> into two tasks the second one being follow up of the firs task. How do I
>> mention that clearly in the task or is it not allowed to make such tasks ?
>>
> Tasks with dependencies on other tasks are hard. You aren't the first to
> mention it. In this specific case, I think the task you are after might
> just be too big. I did publish the task to host a workshop at your local
> ubuntu meeting / linux meeting (or start one yourself if needed).  Check
> out the modifications I made to reduce it's scope to something that might
> fit more into a single task scope.
>
> For the follow-up tasks, it might be enough to encourage the students to
> do it on there own afterwards. The goal of course is to introduce them to
> open source and the ubuntu ecosystem. I trust some of the students will
> stick around and pursue more opportunities -- even if they aren't coded in
> as tasks.
> This might be a question for the gci-mentors list directly to see what
> others think / do in these situations.  I would ask there. Anyone else have
> ideas on how to handle this? (At the moment, I'm holding tasks that require
> an earlier task to be completed, with the intention of publishing them
> later).
>
>
>> My second question is regarding a package Desktop Effects, the
>> documentation for this was last updated in 2011 and now there is Composite
>> Manager for that, so should I add a task to list out steps for installing
>> Desktop Effects or a task to update the documentation to point to the newer
>> alternate package?
>>
> I see this as a good idea and productive. The glamor has faded for those
> of us who lived through the compiz plugin craze, but there are many who
> didn't. I must say, I'd be curious to write on my screen with fire again!
>



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Gaurav Shukla
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