[bind10-dev] hardening sprint thoughts

[Shane Kerr]

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Jelte,

On Wednesday, 2012-03-14 11:40:44 +0100, 
Jelte Jansen <jelte at isc.org> wrote:
> What I think best encapsulates what I have in mind is the last train
> idea; I do not know the english term for it, but in Dutch the
> 'bezemtrein', literally 'broom train', is the last train on a line at
> night. This train stops at every station, so it can pick up any
> traveller that got out of the pub too late to catch their originally
> planned train :)

Perhaps "tidying sprint"? 

As I understand it, the basic idea is to increase our amount of Round
Tuits:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/round_tuit

That is, many of these tickets are not bugs, and not strictly needed at
any point, but something that we should do at some point. When we get
around to it. Perhaps a "tuit sprint" then, but I fear that is a bit
too obscure....

> > Hmm, two notes about it: * I'd be very against estimating all the
> > tickets in one go. That would drive all people and most AI's
> > (todays of of future) mad. And we would not take enough care to do
> > it properly. So setting a quota of 10-20 more tickets from the
> > backlog should be considered.
> 
> Oh yes, I do not plan to make you all suffer through that; I was
> thinking of adding any new tickets to the estimates for the next
> sprint, but for older tickets I first want to wait for Shane to finish
> his munging, then phase the ones left over in gradually.

To be clear, 95% of older tickets remain as they were. I have been
categorizing them but mostly they are still valid. (I realized
yesterday that such categorization is not helpful unless published, but
haven't decided whether to use wiki pages or meta-tickets yet; I will
figure that out today.)

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Shane
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