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  • Project: mid-v1.2 [week 8]Project: mid-v1.3 [week 10]


    Project: v1.2 [week 9]

    Move code towards v2.0 in small steps, start documenting design/implementation details in DG.

    v1.2 Summary of Milestone

    Milestone Minimum acceptable performance to consider as 'reached'
    Contributed code to the product as described in mid-v1.2 progress guide some code merged
    Described implementation details in the Developer Guide some text and some diagrams added to the developer guide (at least in a PR), comprising at least one page worth of content
    Issue tracker set up As explained in [Admin Appendix E: GitHub: Issue Tracker Setup].
    v1.2 managed using GitHub features (issue tracker, milestones, etc.) Milestone v1.2 managed as explained in [Admin Appendix E: GitHub: Project Schedule Tracking].
     

    Issue tracker setup

    We recommend you configure the issue tracker of the main repo as follows:

    • Delete existing labels and add the following labels.
      💡 Issue type labels are useful from the beginning of the project. The other labels are needed only when you start implementing the features.

    Issue type labels:

    • type.Epic : A big feature which can be broken down into smaller stories e.g. search
    • type.Story : A user story
    • type.Enhancement: An enhancement to an existing story
    • type.Task : Something that needs to be done, but not a story, bug, or an epic. e.g. Move testing code into a new folder)
    • type.Bug : A bug

    Status labels:

    • status.Ongoing : The issue is currently being worked on. note: remove this label before closing an issue.

    Priority labels:

    • priority.High : Must do
    • priority.Medium : Nice to have
    • priority.Low : Unlikely to do

    Bug Severity labels:

    • severity.Low : A flaw that is unlikely to affect normal operations of the product. Appears only in very rare situations and causes a minor inconvenience only.
    • severity.Medium : A flaw that causes occasional inconvenience to some users but they can continue to use the product.
    • severity.High : A flaw that affects most users and causes major problems for users. i.e., makes the product almost unusable for most users.
    • Create following milestones : v1.0v1.1v1.2v1.3v1.4,

    • You may configure other project settings as you wish. e.g. more labels, more milestones

     

    Project Schedule Tracking

    In general, use the issue tracker (Milestones, Issues, PRs, Tags, Releases, and Labels) for assigning, scheduling, and tracking all noteworthy project tasks, including user stories. Update the issue tracker regularly to reflect the current status of the project. You can also use GitHub's Projects feature to manage the project, but keep it linked to the issue tracker as much as you can.

    Using Issues:

    During the initial stages (latest by the start of v1.2):

    • Record each of the user stories you plan to deliver as an issue in the issue tracker. e.g. Title: As a user I can add a deadline
      Description: ... so that I can keep track of my deadlines

    • Assign the type.* and priority.* labels to those issues.

    • Formalize the project plan by assigning relevant issues to the corresponding milestone.

    From milestone v1.2:

    • Define project tasks as issues. When you start implementing a user story (or a feature), break it down to smaller tasks if necessary. Define reasonable sized, standalone tasks. Create issues for each of those tasks so that they can be tracked.e.g.

      • A typical task should be able to done by one person, in a few hours.

        • Bad (reasons: not a one-person task, not small enough): Write the Developer Guide
        • Good: Update class diagram in the Developer Guide for v1.4
      • There is no need to break things into VERY small tasks. Keep them as big as possible, but they should be no bigger than what you are going to assign a single person to do within a week. eg.,

        • Bad:Implementing parser (reason: too big).
        • Good:Implementing parser support for adding of floating tasks
      • Do not track things taken for granted. e.g., push code to repo should not be a task to track. In the example given under the previous point, it is taken for granted that the owner will also (a) test the code and (b) push to the repo when it is ready. Those two need not be tracked as separate tasks.

      • Write a descriptive title for the issue. e.g. Add support for the 'undo' command to the parser

        • Omit redundant details. In some cases, the issue title is enough to describe the task. In that case, no need to repeat it in the issue description. There is no need for well-crafted and detailed descriptions for tasks. A minimal description is enough. Similarly, labels such as priority can be omitted if you think they don't help you.

    • Assign tasks (i.e., issues) to the corresponding team members using the assignees field. Normally, there should be some ongoing tasks and some pending tasks against each team member at any point.

    • Optionally, you can use status.ongoing label to indicate issues currently ongoing.

    Using Milestones:

    We recommend you do proper milestone management starting from v1.2. Given below are the conditions to satisfy for a milestone to be considered properly managed:

    Planning a Milestone:

    • Issues assigned to the milestone, team members assigned to issues: Used GitHub milestones to indicate which issues are to be handled for which milestone by assigning issues to suitable milestones. Also make sure those issues are assigned to team members. Note that you can change the milestone plan along the way as necessary.

    • Deadline set for the milestones (in the GitHub milestone). Your internal milestones can be set earlier than the deadlines we have set, to give you a buffer.

    Wrapping up a Milestone:

    • A working product tagged with the correct tag (e.g. v1.2) and is pushed to the main repo
      or a product release done on GitHub. A product release is optional for v1.2 but required from from v1.3. Click here to see an example release.

    • All tests passing on Travis for the version tagged/released.

    • Milestone updated to match the product i.e. all issues completed and PRs merged for the milestone should be assigned to the milestone. Incomplete issues/PRs should be moved to a future milestone.

    • Milestone closed.

    • If necessary, future milestones are revised based on what you experienced in the current milestone  e.g. if you could not finish all issues assigned to the current milestone, it is a sign that you overestimated how much you can do in a week, which means you might want to reduce the issues assigned to future milestones to match that observation.

    v1.2 Project Management

    • Manage the milestone v1.2 as explained in [Admin Appendix E: GitHub: Project Schedule Tracking].

    v1.2 Product

    • Merge some code into the master branch of your team repo. This is expected to be a user-visible enhancement.

    v1.2 Documentation

    • User Guide: Update as necessary.

      • If a feature has been released in this version, remove the Coming in v2.0 annotation from that feature. Also replace UI mock-ups with actual screenshots.
      • If a feature design has changed, update the descriptions accordingly.
    • Developer Guide:

      • Each member should describe the implementation of at least one enhancement she has added (or planning to add).
        Expected length: 1+ page per person in v1.2 and 3 pages per person in v1.3/v1.4
      • The description can contain things such as,
        • How the feature is implemented.
        • Why it is implemented that way.
        • Alternatives considered.
      • The stated objective is to explain the implementation to a future developer, but a hidden objective is to show evidence that you can document deeply-technical content using prose, examples, diagrams, code snippets, etc. appropriately. To that end, you may also describe features that you plan to implement in the future, even beyond v1.4 (hypothetically).
      • For an example, see the description of the undo/redo feature implementation in the AddressBook-Level4 developer guide.

    v1.2 Demo

    Do an informal demo of the new feature during the tutorial. To save time, we recommend that one member demos all new features, using the commit tagged as v1.2 in the master branch  i.e. only features included in the current release should be demoed.


    Project: mid-v1.2 [week 8]Project: mid-v1.3 [week 10]