[Gluster-Maintainers] Backlog and feature planning

[Shyam]

Hi,

Now that we rolled out issue and milestone based scope tracking for 
gluster releases, it is time to get into backlog consolidation across 
components by the various maintainers.

What this means:
1) Open issues for *all* backlog items @ [1]
2) Label them with the component labels (CB: *)
    OR,
    Label them with the Experimental labels (Exp: *)
3) Possibly add a priority for these backlogs
4) Optionally, if known, assign a milestone for the same
    - Available milestones are 3.10 (scope closing this week), 3.11 
(STM), 4.0 (LTM)

Where to look for backlogs:
- Bugzilla
- Various documents on backlog consolidation per component that we have 
done before (example [2])
- Things in your head, but not in any list :)

*Request a response by when for your individual component this can be 
completed.*

Thanks,
Shyam
[1] https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/issues/new
[2] 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mZtRSjjbcewSLMRH1PFyzTsOyeQo_56GtfA-W97U_AM/edit 



On 11/15/2016 08:26 PM, Shyam wrote:
> All,
>
> A couple of maintainer meetings prior (which is about 4-6 weeks in all),
> we decided to give our backlog planning and overall release planning a
> re-look.
>
> Over the course of this re-look, we piloted and gathered some feedback
> [1] on using github issues and projects [2], as a manner of planning.
>
> What seems to be coming out of this exercise is that, we can go ahead
> with github issues, and use the following category of labels to tag the
> issues themselves,
>
> - Component backlog labels
> - Experimental components labels
> - Focus areas labels
>
> What still needs some change, debate, or clarification, seems to be,
>
> - Labels to denote phase of the issue
> - Labels to denote priority of the issue
> - Issues labels versus project boards
> - Milestones and what are they?
> - How should the project boards look like
>
> So, we are moving ahead with issues and github, to start with, that
> include the agreed upon labels (as stated above). We will resolve the
> other items as we discuss and come to a conclusion on what we need from
> the project boards and other label categories.
>
> We will also roll this out with more text around the process etc. to our
> devel list, and are not changing anything for users at present (i.e they
> go ahead with BZ as the source till we are solid with these planning
> changes).
>
> Thanks,
> Shyam
>
> [1] Feedback on the issues and project boards:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q0p-Z4uI_xvA90k29TdEy8xkjKG9FSa2qudzM-9E6-8/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> [2] Pilot github project, labels and issues:
> https://github.com/gluster/test
>   - Interesting sub links here,
>     - https://github.com/gluster/test/labels
>     - https://github.com/gluster/test/milestones
>     - https://github.com/gluster/test/projects
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