kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>Brian Fitzpatrick proposed a devious plan, which I'd like to try.
>As Batman (?) used to say, "It's so crazy, it just might work..."
>
>Our next three milestones are:
>
> 0.21 [10 April] -- Most issues already assigned, in progress.
> 0.22 [24 April] -- Largely assigned, concentrates on diff issues.
> 0.23 [8 May] -- A deliberately random grab bag of bite-sized stuff.
>
>Fitz's idea is that each developer pick one issue from 0.23, and start
>working on it *right now*, with the goal of having them all closed by
>the same date as the 0.22 milestone. If we can knock off 0.23 more or
>less for free, by parallelizing, that'll be a big step toward 1.0.
>Particularly if we can repeat the trick for the next group of
>milestones :-)...
>
"For free", my poor hurting head. Only with unpaid overtime.
>Obviously, "each developer" means "those who have the time". I've
>tried to make 0.23 be mostly self-contained issues that won't involve
>any lengthy design discussions or major API work (with the exception
>of issue #510, which is already assigned to me anyway).
>
>Shall we try it? Just assign an issue to yourself and start on it.
>If something comes up and you can't finish, no problem, just assign it
>back to `issues' so someone else can have a go.
>
We've always had the policy that unfinished issues in one milestone
don't forbid people from picking up issues in the next one. So sure,
let's try it -- even though it didn't work before. :-)
>Many hands make light work (I always thought photons make light work,
>but whatever :-) ),
>
>
Whups, don't go there -- it might be the other way around. :-)
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Wed Mar 26 22:38:49 2003