Re: [Banshee-List] making and maintaining a roadmap?

[Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>]

I seriously considered staying up late last night to get this done, but then
I got all tired and lame.  So, this weekend I'll try to get it onto the
site.  As far as content goes, refresh my memory on a couple things:

-What had we said about odd-point/beta releases?  Should the roadmap be
detailed enough to include all the unstable releases between now and 1.6? 
Similarly, should the roadmap to 1.6 include features that have already been
released in unstable releases like 1.5.2 and 1.5.3?  Actually, now that I
think about it, it might be nice to have a broad 1.6 category that contains
1.5.x sub-categories.  This would help group new features by
progress/completeness.

-What about bug fixes?  Should the roadmap include only new features, or do
important bug fixes count as well?  Would something like "iPod support for
distributions using devicekit-disks" belong on the roadmap?  How technical
would we want the wording to be?

-Are there any features/fixes targeted for 1.8?  Right now the categories
are basically "1.6" and a generic "future."

I'll pop into IRC sometime soon to make sure my actual list of features is
accurate and fairly complete.



gabaug wrote:
> 
> Hey Michael,
> 
> Any progress on this?  Need any help?
> 
> Gabriel
> 
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
> wrote:
>> What do you think of combining it with the Calendar page
>> (http://banshee-project.org/about/calendar/)?  The roadmap could be
>> beneath it (since it could get quite long).  Or perhaps a separate
>> About > Roadmap page would be better.  Or maybe not even underneath
>> About...
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
>> wrote:
>>> Great, I hereby put you in charge of it, then.  :)  Feel free to
>>> delegate/rope people into helping you.
>>>
>>> Can you e-mail me off-list the username you want for the website?
>>>
>>> Gabriel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Michael Martin-Smucker
>>> <mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A roadmap was something that I definitely would have been interested in
>>>> when
>>>> I was just updating from one stable Banshee release to the next.  Now
>>>> that I
>>>> subscribe to all the bug reports and read commit logs, a list of future
>>>> features wouldn't be as exciting for me to read, but I'd be glad to
>>>> help
>>>> maintain it so it's there for others.
>>>>
>>>> Also, since my coding skills are progressing terribly slowly, no coding
>>>> time
>>>> would be lost if I would help maintain a document like this. ;)  If
>>>> developers/people-who-know-what's-up feed me with specific information,
>>>> I
>>>> can keep it organized in a user-accessible document. (Also, I think the
>>>> website would be the first place most people would look for this kind
>>>> of
>>>> information, but I'll do whatever you think is best.)
>>>>
>>>> Let me know; I'm happy to help out however I can.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> gabaug wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> I recently blogged about the schedule for the upcoming releases
>>>>> (http://gburt.blogspot.com/2010/01/banshee-release-schedule.html) and
>>>>> got some feeback suggesting we maintain a Roadmap to make it easier
>>>>> for others to have a sense of what's coming up.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've used roadmaps a few times in the past, which has worked out
>>>>> alright.  But it takes quite a bit of effort to maintain, it's often
>>>>> duplication of what's in bugzilla or on the list.  And it can give
>>>>> people an unreasonable expectation about when features might land,
>>>>> when the reality is it's very uncertain - based on developers'
>>>>> interest, time, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody have thoughts?  Anybody feel like stepping up and maintaining
>>>>> such a document?  It could be in the form of a page on the website, or
>>>>> it could be in the form of a series of blog posts, similar to
>>>>> Bertrand's Pending Patches Periodicals, or perhaps something else.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Gabriel
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>>>>>
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