I like this idea too, this will be a much better channel for community to understand features to be planned. +1 to this.
-min On 4/19/13 7:02 AM, "Prasanna Santhanam" <t...@apache.org> wrote: >On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:16:35AM +0000, Murali Reddy wrote: >> >> Pardon my ignorance of project management, but it appears to me we are >> talking of managing a release after half way through the cycle. May be >> this is orthogonal discussion, but how about taking approach of >>planning a >> release early in the cycle (at least for future releases)? Having a time >> window between each release where we actually plan for the next release. >> Discussions include - direction of the project, what big features are to >> be included, rough estimate of the effort, risks and timelines would >>help >> in planning releases better? Perhaps we should use Collab conferences >>for >> this purpose, where we can plan for the next release (apart from show >> casing the features of previous release). Since Collab is also scheduled >> to happen on a half-yearly timeline it makes this easier to execute >> release management starting from there. > >I actually like the idea of 'collab conference' to do release >planning! So +1 to that. > >-- >Prasanna.,
