Re: Upstream Milestone

[Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>]

I'm not quite sure how I missed the label... this milestone is clearly
duplicative, I'll remove it. I'll see if I can do something with the
labels to make them stick out more so I don't miss them!

Alex

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:20 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 3:42 AM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to flag for folks that I've created a milestone for us to
> > track things issues and PRs that we think "absolutely must be
> > completed before this can be submitted to upstream":
> > https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/milestones?with_issues=no
>
> Initially I did setup a couple milestones and played around with them,
> as well as with "Projects", but then after playing with things around,
> I found labels easier to manage and more powerful than milestones
> (colors, several "categories", several "states" per category, complex
> filtering, etc.).
>
> So, for instance, for the "priority" category, we have "required" and
> "optional", but one can add more states if needed (e.g. "TBD", "very
> low", etc.). To get the equivalent of a "milestone view", one can
> filter on Label.
>
> I am fine with going back to milestones if there is an advantage, but
> I didn't find it... I am curious what they are good for (perhaps to
> get that warm feeling of reading "we are at 90% completion!" ;-),
> which is basically an arbitrary number given how they work...).
>
> Cheers,
> Miguel



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