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Flaburgan
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Hi everyone, hope you have a great winter break.
I was thinking about how we are organized, and I find that, things aren't clear. We need a place to present explicitly what we plan to do, what energy we are putting on and if it will be available soon.
If I ask what are the feature on the launch right now, we have to scroll github, looking at thread, ask people if they still work on it... This can't be okay..
Maybe we should at least define a roadmap and choose what will be available in which version, even if we are not able to put a date on the release.
For example, the single post view which is totally buggy, everyone says that it will be strip / replace by the older version, but who is working on that ? When will it be done ?
diasp_eu Sun 30 Dec 2012 10:53AM
Yes that's the right place https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/milestones
Christophe Sun 30 Dec 2012 8:15PM
Please don't create another wishlist.
Elm Mon 31 Dec 2012 4:51PM
The github page is not clear to me. Too technical.
@christophe : I do not thinks that @flaburgan meant to make a new wishlist…
Flaburgan Tue 1 Jan 2013 6:40PM
@christophe I mean a roadmap, not a wishlist. @seantilleycommunitymanager wrote some times ago a todo list with things like "put federation on a layer", "create an official structur like a foundation" etc. My point is, we need to know who is working on what, what is the progress, where we need help...
Tom Scott Thu 3 Jan 2013 4:02PM
We have a todo list. https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues
As @diaspeu has said, we should be using Milestones to visualize which features are going to make it into each release.
@flaburgan your point about single post view needs its own thread. adding.
Flaburgan Thu 3 Jan 2013 5:53PM
Tom Scott, github is great for the code. What about make a foundation, translation, communication, things around like the official site, the wiki, a forum, a mailing list...
Jon Lemmon Fri 4 Jan 2013 11:38AM
I'm not sure if this is a good idea for you guys, but we use Trello a lot for working on Loomio and we really like it. As an example, here's our main high-level development board for keeping track of what we're working on. I think github milestones might already solve this problem for you though.
However, for non-code stuff I think Trello could possibly work for you. It's worth checking out at least. Although, I've found that keeping track of things you'll never get to can be counter-productive. =)
Tom Scott Fri 4 Jan 2013 3:36PM
@flaburgan we have a wiki on github. we have a "forum" here. we have a mailing list on google. github's issue tracker is good for us in a number of ways:
- People are expecting to post issues there. It's the first place we tell people to go when they make bugs.
- There are ways to categorize issues into feature requests, bugs, etc., give them importance, and attach them to a milestone
- Almost every other big project (including Rails and RSpec) uses Milestones to track development progress. Why don't we?
What exactly is the problem we are trying to solve here?
Flaburgan Fri 4 Jan 2013 3:43PM
As not a lot of people contribute, github can be enough. I knew trello, this is a good tool, but another tool will be too many.
Elm · Sun 30 Dec 2012 7:25AM
I totally agree with you.