[teampractices] [TPG/URGENT-ISH] Thoughts on Gerrit Cleanup Day

Tue Aug 4 20:21:04 UTC 2015

It seems the goals are pretty clear.

+1 to the success metrics question from Kristen.

How do we come to consensus on the proposed date? Are product and tech
managers going to weigh in on a specific date?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> CCing Andre in case he is not subscribed :)
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Great notes. I don't see any red flags.
>>
>> I agree with Kristen's Friday concerns (while appreciating the concept of
>> a "fun" day). And I agree that the wording will be very important, along
>> with buy-in from managers.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin Smith
>> Agile Coach
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Kristen Lans <klans at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Overall seems fine to me, especially given that this is an experiment.
>>> As with all experiments, I wonder: how will you know you are successful? I
>>> see things like "All open changesets submitted by *new* volunteers (as
>>> opposed to new changesets alone) in the last three months should have at
>>> least one review.". Probably be good to be really clear and explicit about
>>> what success looks like for this event in order to evaluate whether or not
>>> it will be an ongoing thing.
>>>
>>> One more feedback: depending on what time this starts, Friday can be
>>> tricky as SF AM on Friday is the start of the weekend for many
>>> international peeps.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> *The Gellerman TL;DR:* Please check out this etherpad
>>>> <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GerritCleanupOrg> and voice any
>>>> thoughts or concerns by reply to this email thread, so I can relay that to
>>>> the Phab epic <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531> and AKlapper.
>>>> Fairly time-sensitive, as AKlapper wants to start emailing the tentative
>>>> plan this week, no later than Friday.
>>>>
>>>> Hello TPGers,
>>>>
>>>> Andre and I finally got together and had an engaging discussion this
>>>> morning regarding organizing a Gerrit Cleanup Day (see epic:
>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531).
>>>>
>>>> This etherpad is the meeting notes:
>>>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GerritCleanupOrg
>>>>
>>>> As the TPG liaison to to this task, but not necessarily the "steward,"
>>>> I would love if TPG could provide feedback to our 1:1. I channeled my inner
>>>> Joel when trying to break down the goals of the day and defining "done,"
>>>> and my inner Kristen with superior note-taking. :)
>>>>
>>>> Andre is hoping to start the scheduling process no later than Friday,
>>>> and would like to draft emails to get line manager and community buy-in
>>>> sometime early this week. Your thoughts and process-guru-ness are
>>>> appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Max
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