Monthly Milestone - Feb 2018

[kjdelisle]

Tech debt

• 🏃 Drop Node 6 support Drop support for Node.js 6.x #611
  • blocked by TypeScript 2.7 breaks @types/lodash #959
• Bring examples back into the monorepo Bring examples back into the monorepo #836
  • blog post WIP https://github.com/strongloop/strongloop.com/pull/110

OpenAPI

• 🏃 Switch to OpenAPI v3 for spec and routing - [OpenAPI] Switch to OpenAPI v3 for spec and routing #753
  • needs to add tests - openapi-v3-types module: add basic tests #181

@loopback/boot

• 🏃 Automatic configuration of controllers in Application - [Boot] Automatic configuration of controllers in Application #780
• 🏃 Automatic configuration of repositories in Application - [Boot] Automatic configuration of repositories in Application  #781

Developer Experience

• 🏃 Circular dependencies in bindings Circular dependencies in bindings #535

💪💪 Stretch goals 💪💪

• Update the documentation to align with the current state of the alpha
  • Fix outdated documentation
  • Mark items whose support is outside MVP so that users know these features are not yet live (rather than removing and rewriting those docs later) Docs: add a note about top-down approach not being ready yet #796
• Ramp up community participation
  • Create/update policy regarding community contributors and commit rights
  • Outline the new process we intend to follow for planning work and meeting deliverables
  • Set some minimum requirements for community contributors to earn commit rights How to be a LB maintainer #943
  • Gather feedback for subsequent milestones (future planning)

CLI

• [CLI] Remove copyright from generated template instances - [CLI] Remove copyright from generated template instances #944

Docs

• Move contribution doc from wiki to repo doc: Move contribution doc from wiki to repo #574

[kjdelisle]

I think we should add "Drop Node 6 support" to this month's goals, since the longer we put it off, the more the scope of the work is increasing.
(side note: I also think we should abandon the "Monthly Milestone" label, and actually use the milestone feature to track tasks related to the goals instead)

[virkt25]

I'd also suggest adding this since it's CI related: #879

[kjdelisle]

Updated with suggestions (keeping in mind that they may still be removed)

[dhmlau]

A few questions/comments: (maybe you're planning to flush out the details tomorrow, but let me put it here just in case)

Fix outdated documentation

How are we going to determine the list of items? everything in the Docs epic? I just found out that the FAQ page is very out-of-date.

Mark items whose support is outside MVP so that users know these features are not yet live (rather than removing and rewriting those docs later)

Not sure if I misunderstood you.. but don't we have MVP tag for all the MVP stuff and supposedly everything else is non-MVP?

Set some minimum requirements for community contributors to earn commit rights

At some point, we (@raymondfeng , @bajtos , @kjdelisle and others) had talked about the requirements to be a maintainer, if that's what you're referring to. The notes is in box, can share it here or whatever github issue created.

Also, i guess the goal for Feb milestone include getting all items (whichever still fits in MVP scope) out of the way too?

[kjdelisle]

Not sure if I misunderstood you.. but don't we have MVP tag for all the MVP stuff and supposedly everything else is non-MVP?

As an example, the current top-down story is not yet supported and won't be for MVP. But we've still got docs to that effect that need to be marked with a warning/notice/header of some kind that tells new users that this isn't yet ready.

[kjdelisle]

Also, i guess the goal for Feb milestone include getting all items (whichever still fits in MVP scope) out of the way too?

There is no way that we can finish all of those items by end of Feb. We've got 275 story points in the MVP release, and that also includes items without estimates: #927 (comment)

[dhmlau]

Also, i guess the goal for Feb milestone include getting all items (whichever still fits in MVP scope) out of the way too?

sorry.. what i mean is to have all the outstanding Jan milestone items done, as one of the goals for the Feb milestone.

[virkt25]

Here's another proposal: #585

[bajtos]

Thank you @kjdelisle for kicking off the conversation about the priorities for our February milestone. Your proposal looks good to me 👍

(side note: I also think we should abandon the "Monthly Milestone" label, and actually use the milestone feature to track tasks related to the goals instead)

Please, don't leave side notes that can derail the conversation, open a new issue instead! That way this issue can stay focused on the monthly milestone and the conversation about the mechanics of using GitHub to track monthly milestones can stay in one place.

I created the issue myself, see #930

[kjdelisle]

sorry.. what i mean is to have all the outstanding Jan milestone items done, as one of the goals for the Feb milestone.

@dhmlau
We need to follow a process like this, IMO:

• Tentatively add items to the milestone (community suggestions welcome!)
• Gather up all the issues that represent work for these items (or create them if they don't exist)
• Estimate those issues and compare to our current velocity
• Rescope the milestone based on what we can accomplish vs. what we should be trying to accomplish
• Move the extra items to stretch goals (unless there's too many, we'll deal with that as it happens)

[dhmlau]

removed TypeScript to JSON Schema - #786 for Feb milestone, as @shimks just finished it!