Milestone Lifecycle

A milestone in XOD (aka Sprint) is a series of development activities which result in releasing a new minor/major version of IDE.

Planning

• Each developer adds an issue with the t:refactor label onto the top of the sprint backlog. This action expels the technical debt on a regular basis. The refactoring may be started right away, while the core issues are being prepared.
• The goal of the sprint is set from the user’s point of view.
• A new GitHub milestone is created with the goal in its description.
• An announcement TOC is prepared.
• The annnouncement pulls GitHub issues related to stdlib improvements. They are created and added to the milestone.
• The stdlib issues pull IDE and core features. They are issued and added to the milestone.
• The issues are estimated in story points.
• Feature creep is detected and thrown out or extracted to separate issues out of the milestone.

Running

• Take an issue from the top of the “Sprint To Do” backlog
• Develop, PR, merge
• Repeat

Finishing

• Build a pre-release
• Write, PR, and merge a changelog update
• At the morning of the next day make a public release

Retrospective

• Everyone answers two questions about the system:
  1. What should we start doing in the Milestone Lifecycle?
  2. What should we stop doing in the Milestone Lifecycle?
• The changes are reflected in this document