The Ready-to-Code Checklist

If you can answer every question on this list clearly and convincingly, then you are ready to code. If an answer is "no", provide a compelling reason as to why.

• What is it?
• Why you are doing this now?
• Who is this for?
• What value this will bring to our users?
• Do you have a list of representative users / stakeholders? Have you talked to them?
• What are the constraints on possible solutions?
• Have you talked to another Launchpad hacker about this?
• Do you have a list of the UI workflows for the feature?
• Do you have mockups for these workflows?
• How will you know when you're done?
• How will you know how well you did it?
• How will you resource ongoing maintenance of that which you are about to do?

If you need to answer these in a more formal fashion, or at some length, use the LaunchpadEnhancementProposalProcess.