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The Ubuntu project is maintained by thousands of people across the world. Monitoring all the work and ensuring deliverables are on track is the task of status.ubuntu.com. This site uses Ubuntu's preferred method of requirements capture, the Launchpad Blueprint, to closely track engineering progress towards its goals.
Across the top of this site is the navigation bar. This can be used to see progress of the organisation as a whole or to drill down to specific information such as team and individual work items. If at any time you wish to return to the home page, please use the 'Overview' button.
Back to the Home page. General overview of the current cycles progress
A team-by-team breakdown of engineering work
A per-person breakdown of engineering work
Engineering work broken down by major milestone
This page. An explanation of what status.ubuntu.com does
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For an explanation of Work Items please see the Ubuntu wiki article: WorkItemsHowto. |
Ubuntu's development is done in cycles, each of which is six months in length. This site shows information for the current cycle. To help visualise the work being done in a cycle Ubuntu uses burndown charts. Burndown charts are a part of the Agile SCRUM methodology, tracking individual items of work to their completion. The number of work items are shown in the form of a bar chart and colour coding is used to show the state. The states that are tracked in Ubuntu's burndown charts are:
Burndown charts also show the trajectory of team effort. The black line shows ideal progress which, if adhered to, will result in all work items being completed on time.
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For an explanation of how the topics work please see: TopicHowTo. |
Ubuntu uses topics to drive its engineering effort. At the start of every six month cycle a set of achievable goals are put forward during the Ubuntu Developer Summit and the Ubuntu community attempts to deliver on them. Topics are further broken down into Blueprints and finally Work Items. Topics can be made up from several Blueprints, each of which contributes to the overall goal.
Clicking on any topic gives you more information on its requirements including who is working on it, the Blueprints that make it up and the current progress.
Burndown chart towards the current topic
Overall completion of the topic so far
The individual Blueprints that make up the topic
The individuals who are working on the topic
The individual Work Items that make up the topic and further information