Series dashboards

Up until now, series overview pages have offered a historical overview of a series. Today, we’ve released our new series overview pages that work much more like a dashboard for people driving a series.

Before we look at the new dashboards, let’s clear up some terminology: to clarify the difference between the roles, we’ve changed the name “series driver” to the more familiar term “release manager”. Most projects use series as lines of development that result in one or more releases and so it makes sense to reflect that in the role’s name.

Project drivers remain as they are.

So, back to the new series dashboards: take a look at the page for Drizzle’s trunk series and you’ll see that the page now has a whole load of information that makes it easier to see the current state of that series. Perhaps of most interest is the Milestones and releases section.

At a glance, you can see how much work is planned for the series’ upcoming milestones and the progress being made with those blueprints and bugs.

Further down on the page you get links to the series’ mainline Bazaar branch and details of packages associated with the series.

If you’re a series release manager, let us know what other information you’d find useful on the series dashboards.