trello backlog

trello backlog

[Sage Weil]

Hi everyone,

We have a zillion tickets in tracker.ceph.com, but the interface is 
frustrating enough and there is enough cruft there that it is no 
particularly useful for keeping track of the important *high-level* 
features we need to work on.  I find myself making ad hoc lists in random 
places for my own personal use instead.

In a similar vein, ages ago we tried to create a "chum bucket" with 
bite-size introductory projects to help get users started contributing 
code.  This fizzled out, I think mainly because the list was in its own 
special place where developers don't look on a day to day basis, which 
meant the list quickly aged and new ideas didn't get added as a matter of 
course.

I'm hoping that we can address both issues by using a more friendly tool.  
To that end, I created a trello board for the upstream ceph backlog.  It's 
publicly readable and available at

        https://trello.com/b/ugTc2QFH/ceph-backlog

If you are an active developer, ping me and I'll send you an invite URL 
to add you to the Ceph org (to get write access to the board).

I'm not sure how helpful this will be, and I'm generally skeptical of tool 
proliferation.  OTOH, trello is super-lightweight, and even if we only use 
this for little stuff (like chum) I suspect it will be a win.

We can also create other boards within the ceph org for other subprojects 
that need more granular tracking (e.g., the transition to cmake, which is 
currently tracked on an etherpad and in Ali's head).

sage

Re: trello backlog

[Nathan Cutler]

>          https://trello.com/b/ugTc2QFH/ceph-backlog

...

> I'm not sure how helpful this will be, and I'm generally skeptical of tool
> proliferation.  OTOH, trello is super-lightweight, and even if we only use
> this for little stuff (like chum) I suspect it will be a win.

+1 Personally I find trello to be quite useful - a lot of the 
functionality is implemented in JavaScript so it runs in the browser and 
is very snappy. It even sort-of works offline.

I like the "chum bucket" aspect of it, but I don't see a "chum bucket" 
list on the board. Should all of the cards be considered potential chum 
projects?

-- 
Nathan Cutler
Software Engineer Distributed Storage
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Tel.: +420 284 084 037

Re: trello backlog

[Sage Weil]

On Tue, 3 May 2016, Nathan Cutler wrote:
> >          https://trello.com/b/ugTc2QFH/ceph-backlog
> 
> ...
> 
> > I'm not sure how helpful this will be, and I'm generally skeptical of tool
> > proliferation.  OTOH, trello is super-lightweight, and even if we only use
> > this for little stuff (like chum) I suspect it will be a win.
> 
> +1 Personally I find trello to be quite useful - a lot of the functionality is
> implemented in JavaScript so it runs in the browser and is very snappy. It
> even sort-of works offline.
> 
> I like the "chum bucket" aspect of it, but I don't see a "chum bucket" list on
> the board. Should all of the cards be considered potential chum projects?

My thought was to mark tasks with easy/medium/hard tags.  Green is 
currently easy.  There's not much there yet, but hopefully it'll be easier 
to add and manage such items...

sage

Re: trello backlog

[Victor Denisov]

I use trello for my personal projects. Here in Mirantis we use it a lot as well.
Trello is a very neat product and has nice apps for phones.
Can you send me the link for write access? I'll assign my task to me.

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Sage Weil <sweil@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Nathan Cutler wrote:
>> >          https://trello.com/b/ugTc2QFH/ceph-backlog
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > I'm not sure how helpful this will be, and I'm generally skeptical of tool
>> > proliferation.  OTOH, trello is super-lightweight, and even if we only use
>> > this for little stuff (like chum) I suspect it will be a win.
>>
>> +1 Personally I find trello to be quite useful - a lot of the functionality is
>> implemented in JavaScript so it runs in the browser and is very snappy. It
>> even sort-of works offline.
>>
>> I like the "chum bucket" aspect of it, but I don't see a "chum bucket" list on
>> the board. Should all of the cards be considered potential chum projects?
>
> My thought was to mark tasks with easy/medium/hard tags.  Green is
> currently easy.  There's not much there yet, but hopefully it'll be easier
> to add and manage such items...
>
> sage
>
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Re: trello backlog

[Michal Jarzabek]

Hi,

It would be nice if there was a small description with some of the
items on a board.
For example, what do we want to do here:
https://trello.com/c/438sMnBx/57-std-mutex-std-condition-variable
?

Thanks,
Michal

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Victor Denisov <vdenisov@mirantis.com> wrote:
> I use trello for my personal projects. Here in Mirantis we use it a lot as well.
> Trello is a very neat product and has nice apps for phones.
> Can you send me the link for write access? I'll assign my task to me.
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Sage Weil <sweil@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Nathan Cutler wrote:
>>> >          https://trello.com/b/ugTc2QFH/ceph-backlog
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> > I'm not sure how helpful this will be, and I'm generally skeptical of tool
>>> > proliferation.  OTOH, trello is super-lightweight, and even if we only use
>>> > this for little stuff (like chum) I suspect it will be a win.
>>>
>>> +1 Personally I find trello to be quite useful - a lot of the functionality is
>>> implemented in JavaScript so it runs in the browser and is very snappy. It
>>> even sort-of works offline.
>>>
>>> I like the "chum bucket" aspect of it, but I don't see a "chum bucket" list on
>>> the board. Should all of the cards be considered potential chum projects?
>>
>> My thought was to mark tasks with easy/medium/hard tags.  Green is
>> currently easy.  There's not much there yet, but hopefully it'll be easier
>> to add and manage such items...
>>
>> sage
>>
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