On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > In order to help organize the flow of work on trac, here is a proposed > workflow for trac tickets (see attached image or > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/jason/sage_workflow.png). The > "*" > state is a wildcard for any state (so, for example, you can go from > any > state to "needs_work", "needs_review", or "closed"). > > What do people think? In this workflow, I tried to make it > patch-centric, in that there is no "assigned" state. Owners on a > ticket > can be assigned/accepted as they will, but the status of the ticket > reflects the state of the work on the ticket, not who owns it.
I think process rather than ownership centric is a good move. Certainly better than what we have. Is there a "merged" transition from positive review to closed? > I also separated the "needs work" into two categories, because it > seems > that often there are people that are comfortable working on > documentation and testing issues that aren't comfortable working on > the > code. This allows someone in that category to easily find work > they can do. > > I also separated out the "needs info" state into a state that is > for new > tickets (e.g., bug reports where we still need the make of the > computer), and needs info on other tickets where work has already been > started (e.g., there is a design discussion on sage-devel about how to > proceed). Comments on this separation? > > Also, I was thinking about adding a third work category, needs_rebase. > Thoughts? Or should rebase work just be part of needs_work and > needs_doc_work? How about "incomplete" or "undecided" for needs_info? (Maybe needs_info is the best name, just throwing ideas out there.) I think rather than having several kinds of needs_work states, we should have a new field. Thus we could have "needs_work" with the "issues" field being documentation, doctests, rebasing, ... - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
