Howdy,
will we commit to implementing x things per cycle from brainstorm.linaro.org if we start advertizing it? The worst thing would be to give people a place to suggest work and then ... ignore it.
Right on. We'll need to implement some sort of social contract for this. I'd want to get the tech leads to weigh in on it as well if we decide to do it. Looking at Ubuntu there seem to be Chores, Tech debt, new features, bugs, and some edge case stuff there. Each of those would likely have a different priority within the Linaro working groups (but not necessarily within the community developer area).
Your comments are really to my original point: if we roll something like this out I'd want it to be useful to both the full time Linaro Working Groups (and other areas inside Linaro) as well as to the Linaro Community, including community developers. (Hence this discussion on -dev).
J
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For the non-Linaro folks on the list, our Working Groups commit to the Linaro TSC to accomplish a number of items of our roadmap. Consequently like any development shop they don't have a lot of free time. I'm hoping that an ideas system would provide a "wisdom of the masses" affect and do a better job. It would also give us another pool of opportunity items to look at ("Hey, we're in here working on X and if I took another 2 hours I could accomplish this other great thing that many people need and we'd be heroes.") . You could do that with bug reports though and good gardening techniques. What I'm not sold on yet is the cost vs benefit of doing this. I would have to put staff on this to manage it and get the ideas circulated within Linaro.