[teampractices] More RelEng process documentation

Thu Mar 5 14:54:52 UTC 2015

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Grace Gellerman <ggellerman at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> +1 to this being awesome!
>
> Only edits that I might suggest are moving this content:
>

One of the "design goals" I had in mind is to make it easy to change the
information on this page in response to both structural changes in how we
work and also in response to suggestions from others.  So feel free to edit
the page to make it more clear!

>
> "Release Engineering creates, manages, and supports the tools and
> practices that allow developers to create software easily, manage software
> safely, and get software to users quickly."
>
> into a "What We Do" heading up toward the top, maybe under Mission or
> possibly even before Who We Are.
>
> Then under How Release Engineering Works, maybe just introduce the input
> modes.
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Kristen Lans <klans at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> This is awesome Chris. Super handy for those moments when someone says
>> "I'm not sure who to talk to about {RelEng practice/process.}", and really
>> nice transparency and clarity around stuff that is so critical to our day
>> to day work.
>>
>> I'm thinking about working with a team on formulating their values in the
>> near future, so I'm curious to know if there was a particularly useful way
>> that you were able to come up with yours?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
>> nwilson at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> That 1st table, makes so many things clearer for me.
>>> So. Many. Things.
>>> Thank you, all!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have amended the page at
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Process
>>>> to discuss how the tools and frameworks we work with are important, how
>>>> work comes to us in RelEng, , and how we go about prioritizing that work.
>>>>
>>>> Comments, criticism, and edits are all welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to Arthur and Greg for consultation along the way, I think this
>>>> is turning out to be a valuable exercise.
>>>>
>>>> Let us know what you think....
>>>>
>>>> -Chris
>>>>
>>>
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