More features faster blockers

[foolip]

We have a lot of experience creating features now, having covered ~18% of BCD keys with web-features. We've learned a lot about what tends to take a long time when defining and reviewing features, and have a bunch of ideas to increase velocity.

These are the issues that need to be resolved to move faster:

• Provide an approved method to get a status for a single BCD key #1204
• Group BCD keys in dist by status block #1231
• Introduce compute_from to pin a feature's status to BCD key(s) #1227
• Preserve ranged versions in compute-baseline #1211
• Automate releases #938

With these done, we can then fully focus on the "more features" part and cover ~100% of BCD.

Discussed today with @ddbeck and @Elchi3.

[foolip]

@ddbeck have I missed anything important? Here are the things I considered and did not list:

• Allow use of ranges (≤) before the Baseline low date #1208, but we need something to improve velocity for very old features
• Allow ranged dates and versions for non-threshold support information #1018 might be that something
• Publish groups and snapshots #1060
• Allow overlapping BCD keys without creating ambiguity #1173
• Features that only make sense in one form factor should still be considered Baseline #1038
• Composite features #971
• Partial support and notes #915
• What's the earliest baseline_low_date? #623

[ddbeck]

Yes, I think the issues you mentioned in the issue description are the true blockers and the others aren't blockers yet.

For completeness, I thought of a couple more things that would speed us up (but are also not yet blocking) that don't think have issues yet, for synchronization between web-features and BCD:

• Automatically opening PRs to create new draft features in web-features from new tags in BCD
• Automatically opening PRs to migrate compat_features to BCD tags

[Elchi3]

• Automatically opening PRs to create new draft features in web-features from new tags in BCD
• Automatically opening PRs to migrate compat_features to BCD tags

+1. Very interested in these two.

[foolip]

This is now done enough, we finished the scope that we decided for this issue. There's more to do, but new issues for those would be great.

And with that, I wish web-features and all of its contributors a speedy path ahead :D