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RE: [eclipse.org-planning-council] A suggested topic for PlanningCouncil Discussion
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Mike,
I didn't suggest giving up. But I am suggesting that I will not
personally be on a quality police force. I would be much happier with a
growing release train of ever improving quality. If we want to start
kicking off the train cars we thing are crap, I believe this process will
break down, especially considering that folks downstream from crappy cars
will drop of by transitivity...
I'm also not sure that 50 small projects are any different form 25 projects
of 1/2 the size, so I think this focus on the number of projects is
misguided. All that matters is quality not quantity and there are lots of
things we could do to improve the quality. And it's not just the code we
ship that affects perceptions. For example, some projects might consider
paying more attention to their newsgroups...
Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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"Mike
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RE: [eclipse.org-planning-council]
11/01/2007 04:24 A suggested topic for
PM PlanningCouncil Discussion
Please respond to
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I do not buy the argument that since you cannot measure quality objectively
you should just give up. And yes, some mature projects could fall below
this
hypothetical bar.
But as far as I'm concerned shipping a smaller, higher quality release
train
would be just dandy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Merks [mailto:merks@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 4:06 PM
> To: mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx; eclipse.org-planning-council
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> Mike,
>
> We don't have a bar for measuring quality objectively so that makes
> setting
> a bar for that extremely difficult. How could we measure this and
> wouldn't
> some mature projects fall below this bar?
>
> I also don't think it's reasonable to assume that incubating things
> have
> low quality nor to assume they have CQs that we must cut back on;
> mature
> projects seem to generate an awful lot of CQs all on their own.
>
> I very much share your sense of concern about quality but I see no
> solution
> for policing it. Peer pressure is the only viable solution I've heard
> so
> far. Given resource from the foundation itself, e.g.,for testing or
> usability analysis, I'm sure a lot more could be accomplished, but if
> that
> resource is already streched just by the IP load, that doesn't seem a
> viable alternative either. I think we're all ears for solutions...
>
>
> Ed Merks/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
> mailto: merks@xxxxxxxxxx
> 905-413-3265 (t/l 313)
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> "Mike
> Milinkovich"
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> 11/01/2007 03:55 A suggested topic for
> PM PlanningCouncil Discussion
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> Please respond to
> mike.milinkovich@
> eclipse.org;
> Please respond to
> "eclipse.org-plan
> ning-council"
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> pse.org>
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>
>
>
>
> Doug, Doug, Ed, et al,
>
> What you are suggesting is an even lower bar than what we have had in
> the
> past. At least on paper, if not in practice.
>
> The problem with this approach is it means that the release trains just
> get
> bigger and bigger and with no incremental improvement in the overall
> quality of what?s coming from Eclipse. Shipping a big bag of stuff that
> doesn?t work together is not going to help us build a reputation for
> quality. It will destroy it. And once you have destroyed a reputation
> for
> quality, it can take a generation (e.g. ~20 years) to get it back, if
> ever.
>
> As a purely practical matter, I honestly doubt that the Eclipse
> Foundation
> as the IP resources to review and approve all the CQs to ship 30
> projects
> on the same day. So if you guys don?t come up with some rules that
> raise
> the bar and limit who has the process maturity and quality to get in,
> don?t
> get mad at me for making rude and arbitrary decisions J
>
> I completely understand that what you?re recommending is the simplest
> and
> easiest approach. But IMHO (a) it?s the wrong thing to do for the
> Eclipse
> community and (b) it is unlikely to work in practice.
>
> Mike Milinkovich
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> From: eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Gaff, Doug
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:32 PM
> To: eclipse.org-planning-council
> Subject: RE: [eclipse.org-planning-council] A suggested topic for
> PlanningCouncil Discussion
>
> All,
>
> As far as I?m concerned, the only reason to kick a project off the
> train is
> if they consistently fail to build and update their site at each
> milestone.
> Simply put, the ejection is because ?Project X keeps holding up the
> release.? Furthermore, I think it should come to a vote by all of the
> projects on the train to kick a single project off.
>
> Everything else should be a strongly encouraged optional requirement,
> and
> we should use public humiliation to police those requirements, e.g. ?I
> noticed that Project Y is not optimizing their jars, shame on you.
> Please
> fix it.? Clearly there are technical must do?s that physically put a
> project on the train, and they should be stated as such.
>
> Bottom line, I think we should err on the side of inclusion, and leave
> it
> up the projects to prove that they can or can?t keep up with the
> milestone
> schedule. If they can?t keep up, then their processes aren?t mature
> enough.
>
> Doug G
>
> From: eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:eclipse.org-planning-council-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Scott Lewis
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 5:17 PM
> To: eclipse.org-planning-council
> Subject: Re: [eclipse.org-planning-council] A suggested topic for
> PlanningCouncil Discussion
>
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> Bjorn Freeman-Benson wrote:
> Doug, (and everyone)
> I agree - if there are no people or people hours, there will be no
> code, no
> matter how much the Board wishes for it to happen. One could argue (I
> have
> argued) that the Board controls the people hours, so if they want to
> define
> a requirement, they should supply the resources, but somehow that
> logical
> situation doesn't always come true.
>
> Do you really think it would poison the community if there were a two-
> level
> train?
>
>
> I think it would poison the community to have a two-level train. I
> think
> we would quickly see different requirements and EMO treatment (and
> member
> company support) for the 'corporate-run' projects relative to all the
> other
> projects...those led by smaller companies and/or independents. Seems
> to me
> this would eventually lead to inequities that many committers would
> consider unacceptable for a merit-and-value-based community.
>
>
> A "meet all the requirements" level (the gold medal) and a
> "simultaneously
> release" level (the silver medal)? Maybe if the packages and the main
> update site contained the gold seal projects, but that the silver
> projects
> were also (if there was time to review the IP) available at the same
> time?
>
> It seems to me like this sort of classification would be inherently
> detrimental to 'silver medal' projects and differential to 'gold medal'
> projects. That is, it may say nothing about their usefulness, and/or
> value
> to be labeled as 'silver', but just the labeling by the membership and
> foundation will lead to end-user biases...with lower adoption, tougher
> distribution, etc., etc.
>
> It does seem to me that if the Board wants to mandate that the projects
> have to do more/other in terms of integration/testing, etc for the
> release
> train...and that the EMO should/must police/enforce the new
> rules...that
> there should be some recognition that this implies some support from
> the
> membership to do the work involved. There are many ways that I can
> think
> of to do this (contributing integration testing resources, allowing
> existing committers to work on related projects, etc., etc).
> Unfunded
> mandates don't really work IMHO...either for the committer community or
> for
> the EMO.
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> - Bjorn
>
> Doug Schaefer wrote:
> As for requirements, other than holding up the IP process I?m not sure
> what
> stick the EMO has to enforce projects meet the requirements. If
> projects
> don?t have the resources or the mandate from the employers of the
> resources
> to do the work, it doesn?t happen. And if you kick projects off the
> train
> because of that, that could poison the community. The best stick still
> is
> influencing and that involves good communication channels open between
> the
> requirers and requirees, and, of course, a reasonable set of
> requirements.
> --
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