Re: [Debconf-team] Kanban, dependencies, priorities, Gantt, … (was: Team Roles)

[Bernelle Verster <bernellev@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 2:08 PM, martin f krafft <madduck@debconf.org> wrote:
> also sprach Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2015-10-14 07:00 +0200]:
>> Kanban also has no concept at all of deadlines;
>
> True, the initial tool does not have deadlines. However, all of the
> implementations I checked out do support deadlines and usually do
> something like highlight overdue taska in red, as Jonathan pointed
> out.
>
>> A Gantt chart is certainly a better fit for the kind of project tracking
>> involved in preparing a conference.  I may have suggested Gantt charts
>> during the DC14 planning; people may have assumed I was joking.
>>
>> I also agree with the sentiment that Gantt charts have an unfortunate
>> tendency to be heavyweight and high overhead.  And I don't know of any open
>> source implementations.
>
> Well, sounds like this is a no-go.
>
> Also, Jonathan and others have pulled me back to reality by
> questioning whether we really have that many dependencies. For if
> it's only a handful, I am sure we can enforce them manually.
>
> I've thus made a start at trying to create a comprehensive list of
> all tasks that need doing for a given DebConf instance over at
>
>   https://titanpad.com/dc-tasks-list
>
> and invite you all to see what you can contribute.

I made a rather rough Tasks list a few months ago, if you look it over
and decide it's useful I can work it into your titanpad?
https://debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16/Tasks
>
> Once we have a sizeable dataset, we could try to create a Kanban
> (with deadlines) and see how usable it'd be.
>
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