[teampractices] "Maintenance" vs "New work"

[Greg Grossmeier]

<quote name="Dan Garry" date="2015-08-07" time="13:36:39 -0700">
> On 7 August 2015 at 13:14, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > I think the Discovery team could be much more easily categorized in with
> > the mobile apps teams vs in with Editing or any team in Infrastructure
> > :)
> >
> 
> Interesting. Why do you think that is?

I think you can answer it best :)

<quote name="Dan Garry" date="2015-08-07" time="12:52:02 -0700">
> Discovery is currently not really building anything new and shiny from the
> user's perspective.
> 
> From the purposes of answering Terry's question, I think the answer is very
> much that this is new work we're undertaking.

Thus, mostly in the "new" bucket and not much in core or maint (is how I
read that).

Whereas I think RelEng is probably[0] closer to only 20% in "new".


Greg


[0] WARNING! Unsubstantiated with data assumptions based on what I see
as the team's manager.

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