[phobos] [dmd-internals] Planning software?

[Brad Roberts]

Yeah, I argued against turning it on if we weren't going to use it.. and I 
was fairly sure it would be ignored.  Heck, even severity is largely 
ignored.

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Alex wrote:

> I'd just like to add to that, that the Bugzilla voting system should
> actually be paid attention to. It's largely ignored right now.
> 
> Regards,
> Alex
> 
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > On 1/17/2012 7:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> Walter and I were thinking of considering a sort of project planning software, i.e. one that tracks high-level tasks,
> >> goals, and milestones.
> >>
> >> Currently we have bugzilla for issue tracking, which is good for bugs and small enhancement requests. Then we have
> >> github which is excellent for revision tracking and such.
> >>
> >> What we currently lack is a sort of a higher level tool that helps us make plans together, order work items by urgency
> >> and importance, and share with the community what our goals and milestones are.
> >>
> >> Would you want to use such a tool, assuming of course it actually helps us? And, before I start asking around, do you
> >> know of such a tool?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Andrei
> >
> > IMHO, we've got plenty of tools in our mix we just don't use them well.
> >
> > Bugzilla already has several dimensions of scheduling, including severity, priority, and milestones.  Additionally, it's
> > probably way overdue to apply more structure to the products/components.  I know it's something Don has advocated before.
> >
> > Wiki is a good document collaboration tool.
> >
> > The DLang website is a good communication tool, as are the newsgroups/mailing lists.
> >
> > Between bugzilla for fine grained categorization of issues/enhancements/whatever and a page on the website to state high
> > level goals, I'm not sure what else we really need.
> >
> > I absolutely agree that we need to have a better roadmap and to execute on it, just not that another tool is needed or
> > useful.
> >
> > My 2 cents,
> > Brad
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