Re: Using the Priority Field for Roadmap tracking

Hi Philipp,

I think it's a good idea, since it helps to identify important bugs and 
see where work is most valuable.
Your suggestion ho to treat P1-3 sounds god to me.

Markus

Am 17.02.2014 23:23, schrieb Philipp Kewisch:
> In an effort to make project work more transparent, I was thinking of 
> ways I could make it more clear where I would like to go with the 
> calendar project.
>
> I was often asked what the roadmap is and I usually started with 
> "Since we aren't very many developers, there are no specific 
> deadlines...". I have a few things I want to do first, like fix the 
> tests and ical.js integration, but I don't know when these will be 
> completed. In consequence, tracking bugs by target milestones will 
> only have us moving bugs from one to the next.
>
> The devtools team uses the priority field for tracking their bugs. As 
> far as I've seen, they use P1, P2 and P3, with these meanings:
>
> P1: very important or blocking others
> P2: important
> P3: valuable, can wait
>
> I think it would make sense to do something similar for Calendar. 
> Devtools has a rule that P1 and P2 bugs MUST have an assignee. I think 
> this will be hard for us to manage, we would end up with only P3 bugs. 
> I think we should relax this rule so that P1 bugs SHOULD have an 
> attendee, and P2/P3 bugs MAY have an attendee. Alternatively we could 
> drop the rule altogether.
>
> I don't suggest marking all bugs with P1/P2/P3 at once, its perfectly 
> fine to leave bugs without a priority. Instead, I would start marking 
> a few bugs P1, then we can go from there.
>
> We could also set up a roadmap page (on the website, or MDN if 
> possible) that automatically retrieves the P1/P2/P3 bugs and displays 
> them, possibly with a motivational text encouraging developers to help 
> out with the P1/P2 bugs if they really want to help, or at least aim 
> for the P3 bugs.
>
> What do you think about this? Counterproposals? Slight changes? If no 
> one objects in a week or two, I will start marking bugs P1 as mentioned.
>
> Philipp
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