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Revision as of 21:28, 26 October 2008

Meeting Title: Planning Council In-Person Meeting @ EclipseWorld 2008
Date & Time: Monday Oct 27, 2008 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Google calendar event
Place: Hyatt Regency Reston

Attendees

  • Richard Gronback
  • David Williams (tentative)
  • Pat Huff (tentative)
  • Anthony Hunter
  • Markus Knauer
  • Oliver E Cole
  • Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Regrets

  • Oisin Hurley
  • John Duimovich (Anthony Hunter to attend)
  • Karsten Schmidt

Topics

  • Galileo Requirements for Participation - Finalize list
  • Discuss project plan format, content, and ownership (see details below)
  • Create planning section of the Roadmap to present to the Board at December meeting, using input from individual Project Plans per this.
  • Plan status per project. Should plans be required by M3 as a train must-do?
  • Galileo participation status
  • Galileo deliverables (EPP packages, update site, all-in-one, etc.)
  • PC update to members on Nov. 17th before ESE (wwdi?)
  • PC meeting 12/10, the day before the plenary in San Francisco... needed?
  • TBD - add here...

Project Plan Discussion

From Jeff's email:

  • What is the intended use/audience of these plans? In my projects we have always attempted to address the consuming community and attempted to paint a general picture of the kinds of significant new directions, functions, etc that are on the table for the next release. In looking over the DSDP and DASH plans I was struck by how detailed they are. There are a great many items (bug reports) listed. Given the volume and the format (many entries starting with the same [tag]), the document is not very consumable IMHO. People can find out what is going to be worked on in any given milestone by doing a query but that is raw information, not a considered and crafted plan.
  • What should the community expectations be wrt the plans changing? Our plans have always changed say 4 times as the dev cycle goes on. This IMHO a positive attribute as it more accurately reflects reality as reality unfolds. However, where the plan is composed of bug queries for particular [tag]s (or the like) there appears to be a danger of anyone in the community unknowingly putting something on the public plan simply by putting [tag] in the summary line. Change is good but too much churn and fluidity undermines confidence.
  • To address the above two concerns I propose that we explicitly state a best practice for project teams to use the "plan" keyword (or any other explicit and relatively exclusive marking mechanism) to clearly and explictly mark bug reports as being for the plan. Following this approach we would likely end up with fewer plan items and less churn. Both changes would increase the consumability of and confidence in the project plans.
  • What do we think plan readers want to see and should expect? I saw some discussion about having more text related to the plan items in the plan itself but no real conclusion. Currently the rendering shows only the summary (I suppose that is a conclusion :-). Again, from a consumability point of view this is less than optimal. It requires a lot of clicking and makes it hard to see the big picture. I've been to countless meetings where people sit down with a printed copy of the plan and talk about the different items. If all the real content is had only by following a link, ... In part this is a rendering question but from a best practice point of view, what do we think plan readers want to see and should expect? If you walk up to a project about which you know little, what do you expect from their plan document? I expect to see some sort of digested form of the raw information that tells me the intent, direction, challenges and what problem is being addressed. Imagine trying to get funding based only on your plan document. Again, we can have links to all the gory details. Make the simple thing simple and the hard things possible...
  • Should it be easy or hard to create a plan document? (sucker question) The main plan wiki page highlights a plan template designed for "little HTML" and implies that the "lost of HTML" approach is for legacy folks. From a best practice point of view, should plan authors be producing rich plans or machine generated queries? I guess my point here is that while people are free to choose which xml tagging scheme they use, we should be encouraging them to create good looking, easy to read plans. Guiding them towards archane XML namespace markup and "prefix"ing is likely to make crafting such a plan appear unattractively hard. I suggest that we reorient the main plan page to guide folks through the simple path first with off-shoots for the non-XML-averse folks.

Additional Topics

  • IP process improvement discussion with Janet Campbell - ?

Reminders

  • December 10-11, 2008 - plenary session with Board

Action Items

  • TBD

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