Re: [DISCUSSION] Issues, ToDo and Roadmap

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 11.02.19 11:19, [ext] Claudius Heine wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to open a discussion about how we could improve the organization of 
> Isar in regards to the projects short, mid and long term goals e.g. annoyances 
> to be fixed, features to be implemented and bigger designs to work towards.
> 
> We currently only have two public ways of communication, one of which is not 
> maintained. Those are the mailing list and the github issue tracker.
> 
> Mailing lists are great for open discussions and patches, but is a pretty fast 
> moving medium and old discussions are no longer looked at and even get forgotten 
> at some point so it might be sensible to put the results of discussions 
> somewhere more persistent, search and with state tracking. Like a ticket system, 
> issue tracker or wiki...
> 
> The github issue tracker of Isar is in a very sorry state. Some of those open 
> issues are no longer applicable or already fixed. Maybe we could reactivate that 
> and have some more moderators to keep that up to date?
> 
> Maybe have employ some bots to improve the short comings of the issue trackern 
> and integrate the ML with it better?
> 
> What do you think?

I would start with something simple: If we think the issue tracker is an 
appropriate way to handle to-dos, let's clean it up first and use it. Then, if 
we do not run into the same state as today after a while again, we can think 
about improving its integration (if there is something that can be enabled with 
reasonable effort).

Jan

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