On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfef...@linaro.org>wrote:

> On 30 September 2011 13:22, Fathi Boudra <fathi.bou...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Hi Zach,
> >
> > I noticed that you introduced BUGREPORTED on Android blueprints for
> > the work items.
> > It raised a couple of questions:
> > 1. what does BUGREPORTED means ?
>
> When David Zinmann and I were going through each WI and closing out
> 11.09, a few BPs were done, except for one or two issues. These issues
> were bugs, so instead of filing a new WI in 11.10 we just marked the
> WI as BUGREPORTED and linked the bug to the 11.09. BUGREPORTED seemed
> to unambiguously mark a hand off between the BP tracking and the bug
> system.
>
> > 2. do we need to update
> >
> https://wiki.linaro.org/Process/WorkItemsHowto#Work_items_in_the_whiteboard
> > ?
>
> I think we should. BUGREPORTED seemed to fill a void as David and I
> were going through each item that the other fields didn't. For
> reference:
>
> TODO
> empty string, INPROGRESS
> Item is expected to be done by the end of the cycle
> INPROGRESS
> By default, this is an alias for TODO, but teams can choose to track
> it separately.
> BLOCKED
> Item is still expected to be done by end of cycle, but cannot move
> forward due to issues outside assignees control
> DONE
> POSTPONED
> POSTPONE
> item will not be done this cycle
>
>
Do we really need this kind detail encoded in the the state of a WI itself?

Alternatively, we could always add a comment to the white board to document
what happened
with POSTPONED work items.

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Alexander Sack
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