tickets with no milestone

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Developers List 
> [mailto:MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: 23 January, 2008 3:02 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-DEV at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-DEV] tickets with no milestone
> 
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:
> >> If I check http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/roadmap, there 
> shows open 
> >> tickets based on milestones.
> >>
> >> However, when I check 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/report/3, I see 
> >> a majority of tickets which are not assigned to any milestone (not 
> >> even FUTURE).  Should these be set to FUTURE?
> > 
> > Tom,
> > 
> > I've never been to clear on the meaning of the FUTURE 
> milestone other 
> > than that it indicates we might like to do this but it 
> isn't expected 
> > soon.  I'm not sure how much better that is then just 
> having no milestone set.
> > 
> 
> I see the FUTURE milestone as meaning "someone has looked at 
> this and determined that it's a legit thing we ought to do at 
> some point in the future... just not sure when". To me this 
> is different from no milestone. I guess we should review all 
> FUTURE tickets everytime we plan a new release, but we don't 
> take time to do that at the moment.
> 
> Perhaps developers should get in the habit of setting a 
> milestone when they look at a ticket so that tickets always 
> show up under a proper milestone (I try to do that as much as 
> possible)... and then a ticket with no milestone would simply 
> mean that the ticket has not been looked at yet?
> 
> The main problem I see at the moment is that tickets with no 
> milestone do not show up in Trac's Roadmap page and for this 
> reason we may tend to ignore them. I wonder if Trac can be 
> configured to display the empty milestone in that page as 
> well? To solve this issue we could possibly create a "notset" 
> or "TBD" milestone and make it the default for all new 
> tickets (I just verified that this seems to be possible in 
> the Trac admin page).
> 

That would be a great idea.

..Tom