[Buildbot-devel] status update ?

[Johnnie Pittman]

On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> I was just looking at http://buildbot.net/trac/roadmap to get an idea of
>> the current status with respect to finished and upcoming milestones.
>> Unfortunately that page appears to be a little out of date:
> 
> This is one of my issues with Trac: by displaying stuff to the public,
> it makes you spend time tending to window-dressing.

Displaying stuff to the public helps us understand where things stand.  That status is not window dressing at all.


>> * Milestone 1.0.0 is reportedly "8 months late".
> 
> Did you read the description?  That means it's been 8 months since my birthday.

Belated happy birthday and a very happy un-birthday to you!

> 
>> * Milestone 0.7.12 is still open, even though it is completed.
> 
> I can fix that.  Why doesn't Trac auto-close things in the past?  Meh.

Because it's providing a form of (terrible, but still usable) project management.  You can set private milestones as well, but that wouldn't appear to help you either way.

> 
>> * Milestone 0.8.0 is reportedly about to be released (in a couple of hours).
> 
> I'll bump that out a week or two.
> 
>> The real question I came to find info about, however, was the 0.8
>> release. Are there any specific plans for when that may happen ? Or is
>> this entirely "number-of-open-issues-bound" ?
> 
> Once Brian gets his schedulerdb work merged, which should be Any Day
> Now, I'll start the RC process.  That seems to generally take 3 weeks
> to a month, although it might be longer this time with all the new
> code.

Is the code feature complete in his branch?  Is it atleast stable enough to run?  We've not seen a status in a while.