[tptp-news] FYI - TPTP 4.2 Planning Process

["Thessin, Tyler" <tyler.thessin@xxxxxxxxx>]

TPTP Community,

 

As defined at the recent TPTP F2F, we’re making some changes to the TPTP 4.2 planning process per learning from TPTP 4.1 planning.  A key objective is to optimize the planning process (for TPTP 4.1 the RG reviewed ~500 items passing ~300 items along to the AG which reviewed and passed along ~100 items to the PG which reviewed and aligned with resources eventually committing to ~40 items).  A key shift in this proposal is to place more of the planning responsibility directly with the Lead Committers and Project Leads for review with the Requirements/Architecture/Planning groups vs. the other way around. 

 

TPTP 4.2 will be aligned with Eclipse Platform 3.2 for release around June 30, 2006 (development will commence January 9, 2006 after a little break following our TPTP 4.1 release November 11, 2005).

 

After this message, I will send specific requests to community, contributors, etc. for their requested input into the planning process.  Our apologies for the compressed schedule for this planning cycle.  Please let us know if you see any issues.

 

Tyler Thessin

PMC Lead | Eclipse TPTP Project | www.eclipse.org

Engineering Manager | Intel Corporation / Software Products Division | www.intel.com

 

The following steps generally define the agreed upon new planning process. 

 

#	Owner	Description	Date(s)
1	PMC	Determine Community Requirements Community submits votes against bugzilla enhancements and defects to help Project Leads / Lead Committers prioritize efforts for inclusion in TPTP 4.2. ACTION: Tyler – Asap – Solicit Community voting for TPTP 4.2 plan	Now through Oct 21
2	PG	Determine Resource Availability PG representatives provide via tptp-pmc mailing list a summary of the resource availability from their respective organizations for TPTP 4.2 by project/component. ACTION: PG Members – Oct 21 – Provide TPTP 4.2 resource availability	Now through Oct 21
3	RG	Determine Contributor Requirements RG representatives propose via tptp-pmc mailing list a list of bugzilla enhancements/defects roughly equal to the size of their resource commitment. ACTION: RG Members – Oct 21 – Propose TPTP 4.2 priorities	Now through Oct 21
4	AG	Determine Architectural Direction AG representative proposes via tptp-pmc mailing list a list of bugzilla enhancements and defects appropriate for advancing the project in alignment with the TPTP and Eclipse Architecture Plans. ACTION: Harm – Oct 21 – Propose TPTP 4.2 architectural direction	Now through Oct 21
5	Lead Committers	Confirmation of Bugzilla Prioritizations Lead Committers ensure correct priorities for all enhancements and defects against their components, e.g., correct the cases where the default prioritization was never updated to reflect true priority, correct the inconsistencies between severity/priority where appropriate, etc. ACTION: Lead Committers – Oct 21 – Confirm all 4.2/future bugzilla prioritizations	Now through Oct 21
6	Lead Committers	Prioritize Candidate Requirements by Component Lead Committers assimilate Community, Contributor, Architecture, Themes & Priorities inputs, and component maintenance needs (e.g., defect backlog age/size) to produce a prioritized list of candidate requirements (roughly balanced partitioning of P1/P2/P3 priorities) and ensures requirement description documents are available for all candidate requirements to be later reviewed by AG. ACTION: Lead Committers – Oct 28 – Prepare proposed component	Oct 22-28
7	Project Leads	Consolidate Project-wide Prioritized Candidate Requirements Project Leads scrutinize Lead Committer proposals to ensure appropriate consideration of Community, Contributor, Architecture, and Themes & Priorities inputs, and balance between enhancements and maintenance.  Produce consolidated cross-component proposals into project summary. ACTION: Project Leads – Oct 31 – Prepare candidate requirements prioritization proposal for PMC/RG review (tbd: need template)	Oct 22-31
8	PMC/RG	Requirements Group Review PMC/RG reviews Project Lead proposed prioritization of requirements relative to community votes, contributor requests, themes & priorities, and project advancement; Outcome is PMC/RG approved candidate list of requirements. ACTION: Tyler – Announce PMC/RG approval of TPTP 4.2 candidate requirements list	Nov 1 @ PMC/PG Mtg (plus special invite of RG)
9	Project Leads	Architectural Group Review Project Leads/Lead Committers drive review of candidate requirements through AG to confirm design documents and sizing; Outcome is AG approved list of requirements complete with design/sizing docs. ACTION: Project Leads/Lead Committers – Oct 18 – Drive AG reviews of TPTP 4.2 candidate requirements	Nov 2-18
10	Project Leads	Resource Alignment Project Leads/Lead Committers align estimated efforts with resources available to determine proposed plan. ACTION: Project Leads – Nov 28 – Prepare final plan proposal for PMC/PG review	Nov 19-28
11	PMC/PG	Draft Plan Approval PMC/PG review proposed draft plan for resource feasibility, architectural alignment, requirements alignment; Outcome is approved TPTP 4.2 Draft Plan. ACTION: Tyler – Nov 29 – Announce availability of TPTP 4.2 draft plan for community review and final request for contribution	Nov 29 @ PMC/PG Mtg
12	PMC	Community Review of Draft Plan Online plan document announced to community via tptp-news, tptp-pmc, and tptp newsgroup for review and feedback; Opportunity for community acceptance as well as opportunity for community to commit to additional contributions to address requirements deferred due to resource gaps.	Nov 30-Dec 8
13	PMC (RG/AG/PG)	Final Plan Approval PMC reviews Community feedback and any remaining issues from Project Leads PMC and votes to approve plan; Outcome is approved TPTP 4.2 plan. ACTION: Tyler – Dec 12 – Announce availability of TPTP 4.2 final plan	Dec 9

 

 

As part of the Eclipse “release train,” we will align TPTP 4.2 with Eclipse Platform 3.2 starting with Eclipse Platform 3.2 M3.  Detailed alignment timeline follows:

 

What	When	Why
EP 3.2 M2	Sept 23
TPTP 4.1 I2 Candidate (Test Build on EP 3.2 M2)	Oct 17	Build of current TPTP 4.1 functionality in preparation for first formal build on EP 3.2 Nov 18 (provide as first “4.2” build on “hidden” build page – need access for team testing, but only a test build, not publicly consumable)
TPTP 4.1 GA (Available on EP 3.1.1)	Nov 11	Next major TPTP release
EP 3.2 M3	Nov 4
TPTP 4.2 “M3” (Available on EP 3.2 M3)	Nov 18	First formal TPTP build on EP 3.2 (Functionally equivalent to TPTP 4.1 GA) (provide on public “4.2” build page starting with nightly builds Nov 6)
EP 3.2 M4	Dec 16
TPTP 4.2 “M4” (Available on EP 3.2 M4)	~Dec 17	Second formal TPTP build on EP 3.2 (Functionally equivalent to TPTP 4.1 GA)
TPTP 4.2 Formal start of development	Jan 9	We have “down-time” between Nov 11-Jan 6
TPTP 4.2 I1 (Available on EP 3.2 M4?)	Feb 24	We’ll plan alignment with EP milestones during this period when such are published
EP 3.2 RC0	Apr 1
TPTP 4.2 I2 (Available on EP 3.2 RC0)	Apr 14	We’ll plan alignment with EP milestones during this period when such are published
TPTP 4.2 I3 (Available on EP 3.2 RC?)	May 26	Final TPTP feature development iteration to be aligned as appropriate with EP milestones during this period when published.
TPTP 4.2 GA (Available on EP 3.2 GA & EMF GA)	~Jun 30	We’ll plan alignment with EP milestones during this period when such are published – we’re generally expecting to be in frequent build/test mode toward ~simultaneous closure with EP