[Sugar-devel] 0.102 focus and features

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 November 2013 02:01, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 1 Bug fixes. In 0.100 we added several nice features but I think the
>> > quality
>> > of the core components is still not at a level we can be proud of. Let's
>> > try
>> > to fix that for 0.102.
>>
>> Be nice to get a discussion going about where you see the problems.
>
>
> Do you mean the concrete quality issues I'm seeing or the problems with the
> development process keeping quality low?
>

Both.

>>
>> > 2 Web activities. There is consensus that it is the most important area
>> > of
>> > development for the future of the project. I think at the beginning of
>> > the
>> > cycle we should discuss where we are and decide more concretely which
>> > areas
>> > need work.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > If there are features you are developing and you would like to get in
>> > 0.102
>> > this is the time to let everyone know!
>>
>> We've got a few things queued up from the OZ work Gonzalo and I have
>> been doing... Will write up the feature pages in the next few days.
>
>
> I remember someone wasn't happy about the features proposal process. Maybe
> it was you but I'm not sure... Anyway that's something we can discuss now. I
> must admit I'm not even very familiar with feature pages requirements. As
> far as I'm concerned just explaining what you are planning to land on the
> mailing list would be enough.

Not sure there is too much more overhead for writing a wiki page vs
writing an email. I don't recall hearing anything concrete about the
feature proposal process recently. It has be refactored periodically,
usually under the guidance of the release manager :)

>
> In terms of timeframe I would like to get this discussion wrapped up in time
> for the first release on December 1.

+1



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