[OM Cooker] RRL (Rolling Release) Project management.

Raphaël Jadot rj at hodo.fr
Thu Sep 15 13:57:16 EDT 2016


Knowing that people don't necessarily understand the diff between 
https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation
https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftware


15.09.2016, 18:49, "Robert Xu" <robxu9 at gmail.com>:
> On a sidenote: we have a crap-ton of repositories in
> OpenMandrivaAssociation. I personally dislike that just because
> there's just _too much_ (also hard to distinguish repositories), but
> it should be noted that we should either disable issues on all those
> repositories or add them to waffle.io (see
> https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io/issues/1814).
>
> Just because - how on earth are people going to find
> OpenMandrivaAssociation/OpenMandrivaLx when there are thousands of
> other repositories hiding it? (Ignoring just linking
> issues.openmandriva.org.)
>
> On 15 September 2016 at 12:43, Robert Xu <robxu9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  A quick evaluation from my view:
>>
>>  Waffle.io provides only one board, but it imports all issues to the
>>  board automatically. This might be messy now, but we can definitely
>>  work with it (Inbox/Bugs/Requests/Backlog/In
>>  Progress/Review/Release/Resolved).
>>  I'm a little concerned about bug load, but we'll see how it works.
>>
>>  As for Github Projects, you can create multiple boards to work with
>>  it. For example, you can create a board for every sprint. But for a
>>  continuously evolving distribution like ours, this may not be a good
>>  idea because it does not provide the option to automatically import
>>  all issues to a board. This can limit us, especially when triaging
>>  and/or maintaining tasks. (Also, I don't trust people to not "forget"
>>  about the project management tool... again.)
>>
>>  Waffle.io seems like the safer option right now. We can re-evaluate
>>  Github projects again later. (Like when Waffle integrated with it:
>>  https://bot.waffle.io/)
>>  I'd recommend that you try Github projects out yourself to figure out
>>  if you like it better or not, and report back.
>>
>>  On 15 September 2016 at 12:00, Robert Xu <robxu9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  It's already live at Github.com. I'll be evaluating it as well.
>>>
>>>  On 15 Sep 2016 11:45, "Raphaël Jadot" <rj at hodo.fr> wrote:
>>>>  Robert told about the fact that Github just annouced the new «projects»
>>>>  service by github.
>>>>
>>>>  https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features
>>>>
>>>>  Documentation is already there so it should not be long before it's
>>>>  shipped.
>>>>  https://help.github.com/articles/tracking-the-progress-of-your-work-with-projects/
>>>>
>>>>  I agree Robert that if we could avoid navigating between different sites,
>>>>  it could be better, so I'd prefer using github projects instead. Besides of
>>>>  this, no objection.
>>>>
>>>>  15.09.2016, 13:14, "Colin Close" <itchka at compuserve.com>:
>>>>  > During a discussion about the implementation of the RRL for OpenMandriva
>>>>  > the need for a project management tool was identified.
>>>>  > Some thought that our current tool (OpenProject) was to complicated for
>>>>  > the purpose and an alternative online service called waffle.io was suggested
>>>>  > as a managment tool for this purpose.
>>>>  > You can view information about this tool here
>>>>  > https://github.com/waffleio/waffle.io/wiki/Recommended-Workflow-Using-Pull-Requests
>>>>  > A working version of the interface can be viewed here:-
>>>>  > https://waffle.io/OpenMandrivaAssociation/OpenMandrivaLx
>>>>  > The tool uses github fto provide some of it's functionality.
>>>>  > There were too few people at the TC meeting for it to be quorate so a
>>>>  > meaningful vote was not possible hence this cooker post which it is hoped
>>>>  > will allow those who were not present to express their views.
>>>>  > If after two days there have been no serious objections the tool will be
>>>>  > considered adopted.
>>>>  >
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>>  cheers, Robert :: rxu.io
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