Office Hours Recap
The agenda for this office hours meeting was to discuss adopting Trello Project management system using the concepts of boards and cards to organize tasks in a sane way. This is what the make.wordpress.com/marketing team uses for example: https://trello.com/b/8UGHVBu8/wp-marketing. as a way to manage status, progress, and ownership on tasks, as well as progress on multisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site roadmap with a target to publish an initial version before WCUS.
The meeting’s chat log
Attendees: @desrosj, @flixos90, @jeremyfelt, @spacedmonkey, @vizkr
Chat Summary:
- The full roadmap draft should be in place by November 21st, in order for the document to be published a week later, on November 28th, so that it is out before WordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They're one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. US. @flixos90 and @jeremyfelt will have another look to complete the remaining sections.
- After discussing possible usage of Trello in a collaborative way, the conclusion was that what is missing the most is an easy-to-use UI User interface to manage required tasks and assignees for tickets on Trac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress.. However most of the functionality is already in place and could be used through workarounds, so the decision was made not to use Trello for now. Instead the goal is to be more precise with defining tasks when assigning a ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. and generally assign tickets around between the responsible parties for a part of it more deliberately, instead of having a single owner through most of a ticket’s lifecycle. In a perfect world, there would be more possibilities to choose from when assigning a ticket to somebody, such as “update patch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing.” or “write unit tests”, but for now these tasks can also be determined in regular comment text.
Next meeting
The next office hours will take place on November 21th, 2017, 17:00 UTC. Its agenda will be to review the roadmap draft and then discuss #42252.
Ticket Scrub Recap
No ticket scrub took place this week.
Next meeting
The next ticket scrub will take place on November 20th, 2017, 18:00 UTC. Its agenda will be to determine the current state and required tasks of tickets scheduled for 5.0 and assign them accordingly.
If you were unable to attend one of these meetings but have feedback, please share your thoughts in the comments on this post. In case there’s a need for further discussion we will ensure to make time for it in one of next week’s chats. See you next week!
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