Margarita Manterola <ma...@debian.org> writes: > For documentation purposes, I list below my summary of the points that were > raised during the Roadmap BOF. These items are separate and may not > necessarily > all (or even any) need to be true in the implementation adopted. During the > BOF > there were disagreements on almost all of them. > > a. Proposals could be made using the DEP process > (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/) > > b. Goals should have owners. > > c. Goals should not be announced unless there's already work going on. > > d. There could be a list of goals (with owners and work under way) and a > wishlist (things that we consider a good idea, but haven't been started). > > e. There should be clear tracking of what's going on with each goal. > > Additionally, I suggested that a team (be it the TC or some other team) could > gather the list of goals and once a year let the project vote on it through a > GR, so that all goals that beat NOTA get approved. This proposal was rejected > as > being too heavy handed.
I like this idea -- it lets every developer have a voice in broad project goals, which seems better than some small committee. I wonder if this would let us add a 'not for next release' item in the list, such that goals above that could be RC? > My reason for proposing this was that I feel developers will be more engaged > with the goals if they have voted for them than if they come from an external > team. However, as long as we are not forcing people to work on specific things > (i.e. if the bugs related to the goal are not RC), I'm fine with the goals > coming from whoever the roadmap team is. Curating the list of goals still needs a committed team to write up a good description of each goal, and keep things updated as the world changes. Each goal also needs a discussion on the technical feasibility of the proposal, a list of dependencies and potential conflicts so that people can judge the costs and benefits. > Initally, Mehdi wanted the TC to be the Roadmap team, but given the intent of > forming this other Roadmap team during the BOF, I don't know what is currently > expected of the TC. I think that the work involved in this should be seen as largely clerical -- collecting goal ideas and writing up coherent documentation. Some of that requires technical expertise, but I'm not sure I would like to see such a group actually responsible for choosing which goals people should be encouraged to work towards. -- -keith
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