[tor-dev] Network team: New status page for 0.4.1; help needed on ticket triage

[Nick Mathewson]

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 8:51 AM Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> This mail is mainly for the network-team folks, but I'm sending it to
> tor-dev anyway in case it's helpful to anybody else.
>
> I've made a new page for our 0.4.1 status, based on Teor's previous
> 040 status page.  Here it is:
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases/041Status
>
> Note that this time I'm using two different keywords: 041-must and
> 041-should. The difference here is that 041 stuff should be things
> that would really block a release candidate, whereas 041-should stuff
> is stuff that we might in theory release without fixing. (It might
> annoy our users or violate our best practices, so we _should_ try to
> fix it, at least.)
>
> At the bottom of the page are all the tickets in the milestone that
> are *not* marked 041-must or 041-should.  Some of these are things we
> could still fix anyway in 041; many will be removed. Let's triage
> these together!
>
> As discussed at the last meeting, we are currently in feature freeze
> for 0.4.1.  Other than tickets that are marked "postfreeze-ok", we're
> planning not to  take any more features in Tor 0.4.1.  (Network team
> folks, please remember to spend your time on 041-must and 041-should
> tickets, and on Sponsor 19 tickets. If we make enough progress on
> these, we can open up 0.4.2 for merging early.)

Update: I have removed all the tickets that were not 041-should or
041-must from the 0.4.1.x-final milestone.  Before doing this, I gave
them all the keyword "041-deferred-20190530" so that everybody can
look them over and see if I messed up.  Some of them are now in
0.4.2.x-final and some in "Tor: upspecified".

We are now down to 4 "041-must" tickets, 1 of them merge-ready.  We
still have 31 "041-should" tickets, 3 of them merge-ready.

cheers,
-- 
Nick