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Planning Council/Indigo retrospective
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Indigo Planning Council retrospective
These notes were collected at the end of the Indigo Release, at 9/7/2011 Planning Council call, specifically just to collect them. And not to solve issues, or even necessarily to suggest solutions, but just to capture issues (good and bad) while the release was still fresh on our minds. Where solutions are suggested below, it is intended to primarily better capture the issue discussed .. not to dictate a or pre-judge a solution. Action plans and solutions will be discussed later.
History
Indigo is the sixth simultaneous release, following Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Galileo, Helios. The Planning Council meets regularly to come up with plans and requirements. Eclipse Foundation projects can voluntarily join the simultaneous release. For meeting minutes, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Planning_Council.
Comments from PC during 9/7 meeting
Positive things mentioned
communication was good, such as on cross-project mailing list,
seemed a little smoother than previous cycles
builds went smoother, mostly passing, only one respin needed
pretty standard, little hassle
quality was good
liked that "checklist" was de-emphasised (i.e. that I did not hound everyone to complete it, if they did not want to :)
happy with people willing to help get through issues
no surprise, dates as expected
Things that could have been better
Reference
See also last year's retrospective
See also others' retrospectives (which may or may not be related to "simultaneous release", per se)