[Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 project management

Sun Mar 16 15:31:25 CET 2008

 Guido> It has a much more detailed set of categories, organized as a
 Guido> tree. Our project alone probably has 20-30 different bug
 Guido> categories. New bugs in those categories are automatically CC'ed
 Guido> to our group's mailing list (which isn't the same as
 Guido> auto-assignment).
Adding categories should be easy. Organized in trees? Not so sure.
 Guido> There are also more "bug states" you can use to track progress of
 Guido> a bug through the system: unassigned, assigned, accepted (meaning
 Guido> the assignee is actually working on it). (There are also a whole
 Guido> bunch that I don't find so useful, and severam that roundup
 Guido> already supports.)
Again, I think this should be easy.
 Guido> But perhaps the best feature is "hot lists" -- arbitrary,
 Guido> ordered, groupings of selected bugs. Each bug can be assigned to
 Guido> as many hot lists as you want. Seeing the list of all bugs in a
 Guido> particular hot list is one click away. We use this for overlaying
 Guido> project management categories and priorities, such as "code",
 Guido> "documentation", "configuration" as well as "next internal
 Guido> release", "must have", "post launch" etc.
A hot list sounds like a saved search, which Roundup already supports. It
also supports making these saved searches public. I suspect you could
define one or more saved public searches which correspond to desired hot
lists.
Aside: Today's my last day here. I'd like to say hi sometime today. Free
for lunch? Maybe this would be a good lunchtime discussion.
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