Can't see a team's current workload, so people use Kanban charts elsewhere
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Often a team of finite size works on a software project, but it is not easy to see how many things the team is trying to do at once, or what they are scheduled to do next.
To work around this, Canonical Launchpad developers, and some Canonical Ubuntu teams, separately use Kanban boards hosted on leankitkanban.com. Unfortunately, this causes a lot of bureaucracy in copying issues from bug reports or blueprints to kanban cards. To the extent that developers make cards only for large issues, not small ones, this may nudge software towards becoming unpolished. And time is lost when people don't know about the Kanban board, or have trouble finding it.
This could be fixed in Launchpad by providing a Kanban view of bug reports for a team, as a toggle with the existing List view. (See also bug 914835, about providing a Burndown view for a milestone.)
Implementing this may first require making a team's assigned bug listing include all bugs assigned to members of the team (bug 307572).
This was discussed in 2010 by sinzui and thumper. We proposed that milestone/series views would permit you to provide a team to filter the work items on. This principle could be applied to other views where managers need to see only a subset of the data listed for users and teams.