[Dev] Feedback on OSAF status overview

[Sheila Mooney]

Personally, I think it's useful, particularly at the beginning of the  
project when people are working on large pieces of functionality and  
there is less visibility into the details. I am thinking of the stage  
where we haven't finished implementing big features yet, they are in  
progress. I attend both the services and apps meetings but I find it  
useful to have stuff consolidated into one summary. It gives a high  
level view of the progress/priorities across the teams. I actually  
used content from these when I put together the milestone report cards.

Once we hit the bug fix phase where everything is tracked in  
bugzilla, having a written status was less useful - at least for me.  
I really just cared about bug counts/priorities and who was working  
on what. I just ran a bunch of searches for this info. I think this  
is more meaningful than listing out what bugs people were working on  
in a status summary.

I know it's quite a bit of work since I did it in your absence one  
week :-).

On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:

>
> I've been doing a status rollup for a while. The first few went to  
> this mailing list but then Pieter convinced me to post it to the  
> blog <wp.osafoundation.org> and since then I've been inconsistent  
> about copying it to this list.
>
> Doing this rollup has been a significant amount of work: though I  
> don't do it every week (don't expect one this week), it can be  
> nearly half a day's work of finding information, writing it or  
> rewriting it, and formatting, each time.  The hardest work is  
> actually trying to summarize masses of information.  I know what  
> the services team did this week, in my head -- but how do I explain  
> that succinctly to somebody not part of the group or perhaps even  
> not involved day-to-day in OSAF?   (e.g. what does it *mean* to a  
> reader if somebody fixed bug 4028 and worked on 4031 and 4685?)
>
> So I'd like to get some sense of the value or lack thereof.  Who is  
> this useful for?  Reply with at least a +1 if this practice has  
> been useful to you; suggestions and comments welcome too.
>
> Lisa
>
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