[phobos] [dmd-internals] Planning software?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I recall Don is very organized about watching and acting on the votes. 
My opinion is (as I mentioned a while ago) that the 5/person vote limit 
prevents good statistical effects from happening.

Andrei

On 1/17/12 12:39 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> 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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