On Mar 9, 2007, at 10:18 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
I just checked Trac and found it odd that we don't have any milestones. Shouldn't we have a 1.4 milestone, and a 1.5 milestone, etc? By doing this we can mark any tickets filed against 1.4rc1 for the 1.4 milestone, so people like me can know if there's anything that needs to be fixed for the release.
Incidentally, please tell me if there's anything that needs to be fixed for the release, and I'll take a look. I just got back from vacation, so I'm a bit out of the loop at the moment.
-Kevin
Hey Kevin! Yeah, thanks for reminding me about the milestones, long ago I thought about drawing a rather detailed MacPorts roadmap but it slipped through the cracks of my tight schedule. In short, yes, we do need one to plan ahead for our new features and bug fixes, mostly a 1.5 thing now that we're almost done with 1.4, in my opinion. Nevertheless, I just created 1.4 and 1.5 milestones, accessible through trac's roadmap. They're both rather bare bones at the moment, later on I'll work on writing some descriptions for them and assigning tickets detailing our release goals. There is, though, one ticket reported by Yves assigned to 1.4, #11417, which I haven't been able to look at yet so I'd love it if you could take a stab at it! Other than that, and for everyone else reading this and with ticket edit trac privileges, feel free to assign to the 1.4 milestone any tickets dealing with bugs in the release candidate sources (http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/tags/release_1_4_0-rc1/). As for 1.5, for some time already I've had a draft mail detailing my ideas for that release which I plan to send to this list when I get back from my weekend. Once we all go over them and reach consensus, we can start creating appropriate task tickets and assigning them to the 1.5 milestone. As a side note, my 1.5 goals mostly coincide with what Jordan drafted as potential SoC projects. I wont be able to complete the application to Google before tomorrow (which is when I leave for the weekend), so I'm hoping James will be able to fill in for me (Monday is the deadline). Lastly, I'll also look into creating a milestone specifically for tickets filed against the ports tree, or maybe even two: one tracking tickets for new port submissions and one for bug reports & patches against existing ports. These are just ideas off the top of my head, feel free to discuss them and suggest something different/better (there could be more milestones.. but maybe not not too many to not spread things too thin). Well, mail rather long now, I better get a hold of myself before I bore you all ;-) Regards,... -jmpp