[Interest] [Development] "Examples and demos" component in Jira (QTBUG project)

Kai Köhne Kai.Koehne at qt.io
Fri Sep 11 16:46:16 CEST 2020


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> Im Auftrag von
> Santtu Ahonen
> Betreff: Re: [Development] "Examples and demos" component in Jira (QTBUG
> project)
> 
> Retiring the component would be a massive loss of data and alignment
> between projects. This before retirement proposal we should have a plan on
> how to manage this area properly. Granted, this is a messy area without clear
> ownership thus we can argue on what team / who should be the owner of the
> component.
>
> In fact the component combines two different use cases (Examples and
> Demos) and it is not helping that different Qt projects have differently named
> components for the same overall use case.

Well, then I'm wondering what the loss of alignment is 😊

> In Product Management we use quite a lot of these Demo components to
> track demos we need to create for specific customer verticals or events,
> marketing needs etc. Our master board is here:
> https://bugreports.qt.io/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=83

The filter query for this very board is: 

component in (Demo, Demos, "Demo Design (internal)", "Demo Implementation (internal)", DemosAndPresentations, "Examples and Demos", Examples) OR labels in (example, examples, Examples)

So the fix for QTBUG is easy: Tag the JIRA issues you're interested in in QTBUG with 'example' label. Or even better, extend the query and use a more descriptive label like 'pm_demo'. Because I actually doubt that the various bugs we have currently reported against the 'Examples and Demos' component are really regularly reviewed by PM.

> If we touch this area I'd be welcoming on splitting the Examples and Demos in
> to two separate use cases but this is not an issue for just QTBUG project, this
> goes across the board and over several projects. 

If we ever get properly maintained demos into QTBUG back (with clear responsibility) then I'm certainly not against it.

Regards

Kai


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