Draft proposal: JEP 2.0

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 04/15/2014 02:09 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>> The JEP owner is expected to update the Alert Status on a weekly 
>> basis once a JEP is Funded and active development work is under way. 
>> If the Alert Status is Yellow or Red then the owner must use the 
>> Alert Reason field to explain what is required to return the Status 
>> to Green. This way everyone working on the release or otherwise 
>> interested in the JEP can easily understand its current state.
> This sounds a lot like the status I have to report to my managers. 
> Except that
> I talk to my manager about how things are going.   This I have to 
> compose and
> publish.  Sorry but it's something that I'll easily forget to do. 

I think the point is that this will supersede some of the ad-hoc 
infrastructure we currently use to track project progress, so this is 
not something that you'll forget to do: it is simply a formalized 
replacement of what you do today.  It is just an "enum" 
(green/yellow/red) and a text field. I doubt that folk are expecting you 
to write an essay each week for the Alert Reason field.

The good news is that by having the alert status in a system like JIRA, 
we can do intelligent queries about work in progress to create useful 
summary reports, rather than working with miscellaneous ad-hoc 
infrastructure (i.e. wiki pages, uugh!)

-- Jon