Mandriva : Tracking Mandriva features and specs progress
Today I take a look at 2009 Spring specifications implementation progress report. It was a very interesting read as the document was .. clearly outdated. Indeed if you read the document and look for the features at 0% of completion, you may feel very bad for the quality of the upcoming 2009.1 Spring release as we are only 2 month away from its release. Fortunately, the situation is not so bad, and many features have more than 0% of completion.
What I found interesting is the fact that this situation show how it can be hard to track the progress ( especially in real-time ) of a project so complex as Mandriva. However not being able to track correctly the progress of the different features implementations may lead to half-finished/working or buggy features, or last minutes features removal. On top of that, as many users point out, there's a lack of communication from Mandriva dev to the outside : i'm talking specifically to blogging or interview to external media, as it's very easy to talk to the Mandriva dev on IRC or forum. This may lead to new features being implemented, but being unnoticed, and eventually not tested. I tend to read most changelog entries, and it's always interesting to see when new stuff are being added and that nobody really know happens. For example who know about ... drakdvb ? I noticed this application while reading the changelog of drakxtools-11.91-1mdv2009.1
So first, we need to be able to track more easily the features which are going to be implemented.
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