Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: use a Label instead of a Milestone…

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Auteur: Zen Fu
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À: sajolida, The Tails public development discussion list
Sujet: Re: [Tails-dev] Proposal: use a Label instead of a Milestone to track our roadmap
sajolida <sajolida@???> writes:
> Last year, we encoded the items on our roadmap using the Milestones
> %2021 and %2022:
>
> https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/groups/tails/-/milestones/10
> https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/groups/tails/-/milestones/109
>
> The problem is that we lose this information as we assign issues to the
> version numbers that we use as milestones to organize our work on a
> shorter time frame.
>
> For example, I want to get #8845 done by 4.20, so I moved it from %2021
> to %4.20, lose the roadmap semantics.
>
> As a consequence, it's hard to have a bird's view of the progress made
> on our roadmap (or a kanban).
>
> I propose that we change this to using labels, for example ~2021 instead
> of %2021. This way, changing milestones wouldn't lose the roadmap info.
> It would make it easier to track and evaluate progress without having to
> go back to the canonical version of the roadmap from Mural.


I think that's a good proposal, the milestone semantics usually has
stricter due dates, while the roadmap semantics depicts a higher level
intention.

> Do you see any disadvantage to using a label instead of milestone for
> our roadmap items?


No, I only see advantages.