At the recent SIG day at CERN, we discussed more formal reporting from the SIGs to the broader community. In particular, we discussed quarterly reporting, covering the following topics:
* Membership update (members added, removed. Chair changes.) * Releases in the most recent quarter (or most recent release, if none in that quarter) * Health report and general activity narrative. * Issues for the board to address, if any.
So, this is 4 short paragraphs, to give the board, and the community, some idea of what the SIG is up to, and whether it is healthy. Not terribly onerous, but extremely valuable in discerning how our SIGs are operating.
It was proposed that SIGs be arrange in a quarterly reporting schedule. I suggest the following schedule, starting in January of 2019:
Group 1:
Reports January, April, July, October
* Core * Atomic * Config Management * PaaS * Software Collections
Group 2:
Reports February, May, August, November
* Alt Arch * Cloud * NFV * Promo * Storage
Group 3:
Reports March, June, September, December
* Artwork * Cloud Instance * OpsTools * Public CI * Virtualization
I further propose that reports are due by the second Monday in the designated month.
To this end, it is important that each SIG clearly designate a SIG chair, documented on your SIG wiki page. Some SIGs have this, and some do not. Some that have it are out of date, and the SIG needs to designate a chair again.
Note that the chair is not necessarily a technical lead, they're just the person responsible for reporting - the voice of the SIG, if you will.
If you have any questions or comments about this plan, please do speak up, so that we can work out any difficulties by January.
Thanks.