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Re: Call for volunteers: an early start on 0.23

From: B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2003-03-28 16:28:13 CET

> brane@xbc.nu writes:
> 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..."

Muhahahahaha!

> >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. :-)

Well, my hope was that this would appeal mostly to people who aren't
currently working on a Subversion issue--an opportunity to jump in the
fray with a relevant issue, but without the fear of holding up other
dependencies as they work their way through the svn codebase.

So come on people! Grab an issue and run!

-Fitz

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