Discussion of the new fields of Codev WebForm

I propose to add some values to the TopicClassification field to specify a more "formal" status workflow:

What seem to be the usage pattern now that TWiki is a more mature phase (in the initial phase, the Core team was busy developing and issuing versions):

• 1 People (out of core team) contribute wishes or bug reports
• 2 Agreement is reached on how to fix it
• 3 A fix/enhancement is proposed as tentative patch & Some comments are made on the principles of it
• 4 Some comments are made after use on real sites, and patch is modified, etc, etc...
• 5 Patch is in TWikiAlphaRelease
• 6 Patch is in TWikiAlphaRelease and should be applied asap by production sites (bug fix, security fix, very useful enhancement) It should be given a patch number to specify the order in which patches should be applied, and thus people could identify their versions as BeijingPatch37 ,etc...
  One also could add a file in the TWiki distrib, Patchlevel, where all applied patches would be listed, one per line. Patches would also modify this file to append their name there...

(If you add / modify these states please do not change the existing numbers)

The natural states of a contributed bugfix could thus be: 3->4->6 for simple ones, 1->2->3->5 for major features, etc...

One could thus set up a page listing all the topics in state 6 to know which ones to apply to production sites.

My proposal for the naming of these 6 states is: (feel free to debate/modify)

• 1 FeatureEnhancementRequest / BugReport
• 2 FeatureToDo / BugAssigned
• 3 FeatureAlpha / BugFixAlpha (now this is FeatureHack?)
• 4 FeatureBeta / BugFixBeta
• 5 FeatureDone / BugResolved
• 6 PatchToBeijing (there should be one name per release: All the Beijing patches should be automatically made obsolete once Cairo is out)

Thus, the "job" of a Beijing TWiki maintainer would be to monitor (or to be mailed the changes, ideally) all the topics with TopicClassification field being PatchToBeijing

-- ColasNahaboo - 12 Apr 2003

Overall, sounds like a great idea, especially the step 6 and auto mailing to TWiki maintainers!

-- RandyKramer - 13 Apr 2003