[openstack-dev] [all] The future of the integrated release

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Aug 27 18:30:35 UTC 2014


On Aug 27, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Chris Dent <chdent at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
>> I have found it immensely helpful, for example, to have a written set
>> of the steps involved in creating a new library, from importing the
>> git repo all the way through to making it available to other projects.
>> Without those instructions, it would have been much harder to split up
>> the work. The team would have had to train each other by word of
>> mouth, and we would have had constant issues with inconsistent
>> approaches triggering different failures. The time we spent building
>> and verifying the instructions has paid off to the extent that we even
>> had one developer not on the core team handle a graduation for us.
> 
> +many more for the relatively simple act of just writing stuff down

"Write it down.” is my theme for Kilo.

Doug




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