[oaw-wg] Milestone planning for Xpand and MWE

[Sven Efftinge <sven.efftinge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

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I think you all agree with that there has been too little process for  
the MWE and Xpand components during the last years.
So it's time to introduce some process. For that I'ld like to hold so  
called milestone meetings. We have such meetings for Xtext and found  
it very helpful. The main purpose is to review the last milestone and  
identify bugzillas for the upcoming milestone (as described here http://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/developers/process.php) 
.
For Xtext we hold it face-to-face, it lasts a whole day, and we always  
have very deep going discussions. I don't think we can and need to do  
that with Xpand and MWE, as the teams are not located at the same  
place and these components are relatively mature.
So it would basically be a matter of going through the list of  
bugzillas and discussing the priority of them via phone.

Between the milestones then everybody can see the TODOs and if you're  
able to fix a bug or add a feature, all you need to do is assign the  
bug to you, fix it, and close it.

Of course it is possible to change the target milestone property  
between milestones. For instance when new bugs come in, which need to  
be fixed ASAP. It will usually be vetoed by other committers if  
there's a problem with that.

Any objections?

Cheers,
Sven