[Python-3000] Fwd: [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 project management
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Sun Mar 16 17:40:32 CET 2008
Sorry, forgot to CC this to the list.
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:31 AM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Guido> It has a much more detailed set of categories, organized as a
> Guido> tree. Our project alone probably has 20-30 different bug
> Guido> categories. New bugs in those categories are automatically CC'ed
> Guido> to our group's mailing list (which isn't the same as
> Guido> auto-assignment).
>
> Adding categories should be easy. Organized in trees? Not so sure.
The tree is really useful because it means that end users can assign
bugs to the top-level node for a project and the project members can
move it to the correct subnode. This can even happen in two triage
stages for large projects.
> Guido> There are also more "bug states" you can use to track progress of
> Guido> a bug through the system: unassigned, assigned, accepted (meaning
> Guido> the assignee is actually working on it). (There are also a whole
> Guido> bunch that I don't find so useful, and severam that roundup
> Guido> already supports.)
>
> Again, I think this should be easy.
It's also the least important one on my list.
> Guido> But perhaps the best feature is "hot lists" -- arbitrary,
> Guido> ordered, groupings of selected bugs. Each bug can be assigned to
> Guido> as many hot lists as you want. Seeing the list of all bugs in a
> Guido> particular hot list is one click away. We use this for overlaying
> Guido> project management categories and priorities, such as "code",
> Guido> "documentation", "configuration" as well as "next internal
> Guido> release", "must have", "post launch" etc.
>
> A hot list sounds like a saved search, which Roundup already supports. It
> also supports making these saved searches public. I suspect you could
> define one or more saved public searches which correspond to desired hot
> lists.
Not quite. Items don't automatically end up on a hot list; they must
explicitly be put on one. I'm not sure how you'd simulate this via
saved searches. Maybe a combination of a custom keyword *and* a saved
search would help. However this doesn't scale so well, because
keywords show up in everybody's UI. Hot lists are only visible to
users who care to subscribe to them.
[Georg, in a later post]
> Doesn't this match Roundup's keywords?
See above answer.
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