Problems revealed by a report of detailed changes to 8.2.1 tickets.

[Michael Stone]

Ed,

I made http://dev.laptop.org/report/39?TIME=800000 in the image of one
of my old 8.2.0 reports. (TIME is the number of seconds of history that
you want to view so that URL shows you all changes to tickets with
milestone 8.2.1 made in the last 9-10 days).

At the time of this writing, over the past week, 7 out of 16 tickets
have been updated, primarily by Deepak and Scott with some additional
questions and discussion from Sayamindu, Bert, and Simon.

I know that I find this degree of recorded progress less than
satisfactory. Do you feel the same way? If so, you need to know that I
feel neither empowered nor requested to push this along as fast as it
can go. (Does anyone else feel similarly?)

Consequently, if you want my full potential contribution to 8.2.1 to be
realized, I strongly suggest that you, as 8.2.1 release manager, would
do well to provide me with better and more regular instruction, e.g. by 

   * assigning some 8.2.1 tickets to me, (I have none)

   * by requesting me to choose some tickets that I can handle,

   * by _promptly and regularly_ checking in with all of the people in
     the critical path to release to find and remove obstacles to their
     work,

   * or by delegating the responsibility and authority to do these things
     to someone else if that's the best way to get the job done.

To summarize, Trac suggests to me that people are either not reporting
their work or are stuck, perhaps because of deadlock, contention,
starvation, challenge, or distraction. How are you going to solve the
problem?

Michael