[IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

[Daniel Drake]

On 13 July 2010 06:17, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On 12 July 2010 19:27, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> I'm still unconvinced that this is worth changing, given the additional
>> work that it will cause.
>>
>> I'd like to hear from the heavy users of trac, in particular Chris (cjb),
>> Daniel (dsd), and Paul (pgf).
>
> I think our current system made sense temporarily at the time it was
> introduced, but now we should switch to what Martin is suggesting,
> which in my experience is how the rest of the universe works. It is
> also the approach used previously by OLPC when there was a larger
> engineering team, and worked well (though trac in general was the
> subject of continuous refinement, of course).

Thinking more, I think the changes are simple:

Rename 1.5-software-final to 10.1.0
Rename 1.5-software-update to 10.1.1
Rename 1.0-software-update to 10.1.2

(a handful of tickets will need reshuffling, but not many)

In my opinion, our process is already somewhat similar to what Martin
is describing. Our trac milestones don't fully describe the changes of
each release but they at least do a very good job of describing our
intentions and the important things we're working on, and improving
the accuracy is something we can step towards improving.

Daniel