Release Management

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

being the one who mostl triages bugs, I guess I should add my 2 cts.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 22:49, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Just been thinking about some of the problems we've been running into
> with our scheduling of development vs bugfixes vs buffer times to
> release.
>
> Is it possible this is all coming down to a product management
> problem? We have excellent developers, an excellent community &
> release manager, but a very clear lack of product management.
>
> Now now, before you all throw up your arms - I'm not saying we should
> introduce a "product manager" role into the Amarok community. Nobody
> likes being told what to do when.
>
> But perhaps we could use tools to assisting us in synchronising
> release management with product road maps?
>
> I'm personally thinking of JIRA (an alternative issue tracker) which I
> recently wrote about on a kde-core-devel thread [0]. Now this does of
> course have it's draw backs, the most obvious and heartbreaking one
> being that we'd have to somehow manage two issue trackers. Not that we
> do the greatest job on bugzilla, but this could be because of bugzilla
> crappiness in this regard. An option could be to use JIRA as a
> "private" bugtracker to begin with just for planning?

I would absolutely love that! I am so fed up with bugzilla and it's
multiple down sides that I gladly volunteer for helping out with that
one. Maybe we will one day have a real "Agile Development"? It at
least is a first step and would also fit perfectly in my project
management curriculum :)


Regards, Myriam.
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