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TPTP-PMC-20091028
Logistics
Attending: Kathy, Oliver, Chris, Paul, Eugene
- Ernest on vacation in Orlando
Any objections to last weeks summary
- No
4.5.2.1 Discussion
- Kathy notes that M4B is posted to consumers and we will get feedback soon
4.6.2 Discussion
We are toward end of a development iteration and are entering a test pass next week.
- The current schedule has a week of smoke and two weeks of full test pass
- Kathy suggests that instead of doing the big test pass now, just do lighter test now
- Motivation because the number of defects fixed is not big enough to justify the larger pass
- Kathy has updated the schedule to reflect this.
Iteration 1 recap
- 31 bugs fixed.
- A number of these were backported to 4.5 where they have been tested by IBM already
- Oliver asks if 31 bugs in 5 weeks is expected thruput
- Kathy thinks that thruput is as expected
- Kathy said that on her side people were splitting time during this part of the project. Expecting more over time.
- Paul noted on test he is doing most of his part at end of cycle. Jerome was working on one big defect
- Paul thinks thruput is as good as expected
Oliver asks what investment was over this period
- Test project has ~.75 resource
- Platform project IBM has ~2.5 (including build/etc)
- Platform project Intel has ~1.5 engineering plus part of person to assist with build
Paul asks if we should start putting crude estimate of time worked on defects.
- Test project does this pretty regularly
- Kathy notes that there is time spent going into reproducing defects as well as fixing them.
- Chris asked about some non-bugfix related items (knowledge transfer underway was one example)
- Team noted that knowledge transfer does have a bugzilla associated with it.
- Chengrui has a wiki page under development for sharing between IBM and Intel
- He can fill in in the time field (updating the previous value)
The part that might not be accounted quite right are test, build/release engineering
- Mailing/new list traffic is low right now so that should not be a big invest.
Kathy asks if there are intelligent queries to turn some of this into trendlines
- Paul notes that there can be a running tally from week to week.
Oliver says that this metric could be useful as we ask for resources next year
- He does not want to add unnecessary tracking tax so it should be lightweight
- Paul would like to see us using the resources we have efficiently
- Kathy asks if this should be forward or should we go back to "all" 4.6.2 defects.
- General agreement to have it going forward
- Oliver says don't go backwards but to start at iteration 2.
Team discussed some project that are even more rigorous and have a model of "if it is not tracked in bugzilla, you did not do it."
Chris notes that field wont really work as a personal timesheet because different people work on the same bugzillas (reviewing, etc).
- We reiterated that we're really tracking the project forward progress rather than individual contribution.
- We will never see 100% of engineers time tracked
- It might however be useful for helping get gut feel for whether a 10% or 20% resource is effective or not.
Misc
Do we need to meet next week.
- Yes
Itanium bulid system update
- IBM got their unpacking authorization and are getting it set up.
- Expect about a month to get them all set up and allow decommissioning Intel side builds.
We discussed vacation schedule for the upcoming holiday seasons.