[phobos] [dmd-internals] Planning software?

[Martin Nowak]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:34:32 +0100, 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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While Bugzilla is good at archiving bugs it fails to
provide overview.

I don't advocate to use github's issue tracker but
they have a superb integration of issues and milestones.

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/milestones
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues
https://github.com/blog/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation

If we could get closer to this with Bugzilla that should
suffice.