[maemo-developers] maemo.org work on sprint mode

[From: Quim Gil]

Brief not-so-new news:

Since few days ago all the maemo.org related work is done based on
monthly sprints publicly documented and open to your input and
involvement. Interested? See
https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo2midgard-discussion/2008-February/000220.html


The monthly sprint planning meetings have three parties: Nokia employees
like me with responsibilities over maemo.org, Nemein guys knowing about
Midgard CMS and other intimacies of our web servers and Niels Breet,
hired part time to push the community agenda (see
http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/introducing_niels_breet.html ).
 In these meetings we review the past month and we decide what to put in
the next sprint, at two levels:

- Tasks more or less complex that require more than one person / one
day. We decide which ones get in and who coordinates... and we forget
about the rest until next month. The pool of potential tasks come from
http://maemo.org/intro/roadmap.html and
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/roadmapwishlist/ , where you can have
direct input. Of course we also read your ideas and complaints in the
lists, and Niels is explicitly in charge of bringing to the planning
meetings whatever is found to be relevant.

- Bugs & feature requests submitted in the product Website of
bugs.maemo.org. By default all bugs have Low priority and they are
watched by the maintainers of each Website component as soon as they
land. Urgent stuff go to the urgent track. All the rest follows a simple
process:

1. When a bug is set to Medium priority it becomes a candidate for the
next sprint.

2. In the sprint planning meeting we look at the Medium & High priority
bugs, and also the most voted. We decide then which ones should be
addressed in the following month. Those selected get the High priority.
We concentrate on fixing those and we forget about the rest until the
next sprint.

All the activity is reported either via the public mailing list
https://garage.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo2midgard-discussion or
the bug reports. You can have input on both, and you are also invited to
increase your involvement.



The context

Last year we started drawing a line between maemo.org and Nokia.com in
order to avoid confusion and promote better what each side has. The
community is what powers maemo.org. We had already healthy community
activity in mailing lists and garage projects, and in the past months we
have put more community energy and visibility on the News and Downloads.

We want to continue the trend... specially if you want to continue as
well. One consequence of this trend could be the move of all official
Nokia deliveries (software images, SDK, official documentation) to the
*.nokia.com domain. This would assure more rigid processes but also more
reliability on those. But the best thing would be that the community
aspect of maemo.org could be done more deeply, even with a real
community centric management.

Practical consequences of this would be the possibility for you to
decide *really* how you want to organize extras & extras-devel, the
wiki, i18n of the website, granting more permissions to certain
contributors and so on.

Step by step. This is still draft thinking and an invitation to think
further.

Quim