feature planning Archives - Duck Alignment Academy

2024-03-20

Roadmaps are valuable for open source projects

The moment you go from one contributor to two, you have to start coordinating. The project roadmap is an excellent tool for that.

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2023-06-02

Is an accidentally reverted feature a release blocker?

You should have a policy in place, and it needs to be more sophisticated than “yes” or “no”. Decide when adding a feature if it should be release blocking or not.

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2019-08-08

Changing the Changes Process (Flock to Fedora)

Shortly after I delivered this Flock to Fedora talk, we abandoned the planned improvements. The Taiga interface proved to be a little too user-hostile. Specifically, the requirement that each field be saved separately would almost certainly result in a lot of lost data. So we’re (as of the end of 2021) still using the old system. But I’m still thinking...

Talks

2019-01-26

Managing changes in open source projects (DevConf.CZ)

In my first DevConf.CZ talk, I describe the general concepts that go into planning features in an open source project. The second half of the talk explains how Fedora applies those concepts, and how that process has evolved over time. This talk is the basis for the “Manage Features” chapter in Program Management for Open Source Projects. Date: 26 January...

Talks

Tag: feature planning

Roadmaps are valuable for open source projects

Is an accidentally reverted feature a release blocker?

Changing the Changes Process (Flock to Fedora)

Managing changes in open source projects (DevConf.CZ)