[asterisk-dev] Project Planning Template

[Russell Bryant]

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:

> Hello all -
>
> One of the topics discussed at AstriDevCon was how we could, as an open
> source project, better coordinate efforts between developers on major
> projects being developed for Asterisk 12.  One idea that came up was to
> have a page on the Asterisk wiki for each major project and - on that
> page - provide information for developers to aid in collaboration.
> Information could include things like:
> * The subversion feature branches being used for active development for
> that project
> * Tracking of the efforts that have been done on a project, what efforts
> are currently in progress, and what still has to be done
> * Convey the requirements for the project, high-level design, and other
> useful concepts for software development
> * Link to other pertinent information related to the project (RFCs, etc.)
>
> The pages should *not* be used as a means for discussion - that has
> historically worked quite well on the mailing lists, and the consensus
> was to keep it that way.
>
> As such, we've created a draft project planning template on the Asterisk
> wiki:
>
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Project+Planning+Template
>
> If everyone thinks this is a good idea, I'll make the template an actual
> wiki template on the Asterisk wiki, so pages can be made directly from
> it (and I'll update the Confluence Tips page to explain how to do
> that!), as well as keep it in the Policies subsection.
>
> Feedback welcome!
>

Sounds like a great process improvement to me!  I like the idea of the wiki
page overview and think the template generally has the info I would like to
see if I wanted an overview of the project and its status.

Thanks,

-- 
Russell Bryant
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