[CentOS-devel] CPE Team Engagement

Hi Everyone,

As we kick off our team's work for Quarter 3 of this year, we would
like to take this opportunity to ask for your feedback on our
engagement over the last few months.

The CPE has been working on trying to improve our communication with
our communities and increase visibility on how we decide on what to
work on. We have taken many steps to improve our communication such as
IRC Office hours, regular initiative updates on our taiga board,
weekly mail and blog posts on what we achieved in each quarter and
what we are planning to work on next.
We have also had a few discussions before with some Fedora Council and
CentOS Board members on how best to engage with the CPE Team when you
wish to brief in an initiative or need to file a
bug/issue/enhancement, and as time goes by we are refining our
processes.
We would like to share with you our current approaches that we are
using for you to provide feedback on how you feel these are working.




It is important for our team to feel like their time is protected so
that they are able to enjoy a healthy work-life balance, so we have
categorized work requests that the team responds to into two
categories which we believe benefits both the CPE team and the
communities we serve:

- Project Teams
    - These teams are created based on an initiative that has been:
        - Received by our product owner in advance
        - The work involved has been scoped, reviewed and accepted to
the backlog by the CPE Review Team
        - Prioritized and actioned for work during our teams quarterly
planning sessions by CPE Team Stakeholders and Review Team

- Sustaining Team
    - This team responds to 'lights on work' and requests that come in
on an ad hoc & regular basis such as:
        - BAU infra/releng requests
        - RFEs
        - Bug fixes



## How we propose to deal with Project Team Initiatives?

* We have published deadlines for initiatives to be briefed into our
team by for each quarter here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/cpe/time_tables/
* Project requests that are recieved are then discussed further with
the requestor and relevant team lead(s) with our product owner
* During our monthly quarterly planning sessions, the CPE Review Team
reviews and prioritises which proposals to scope.
* All scoped proposed initiatives are brought into our QP session for
review and consideration to be worked on in the next quarter.
* Our CPE Review Team review all and vote on the initiatives they
would like to see actioned in the next quarter. Our CPE Review Team
include:
    * Fedora - mmiller, mnordin, bcotton
    * CentOS - rbowen, bex
    * RHEL - bex, dperpeet, aslobodova
    * CPE -
        * CPE Product Owner - amoloney
        * CPE Management - lgriffin, antcarroll, smattejiet
        * CPE Team Leads - pingou, bstinson

As a picture is worth a thousand words, so here is one :)

> ![](https://i.imgur.com/Ro08PsE.png)


> Image Credit goes to Smera Goel, the very talented graphic designer that is currently interning as part of the Fedora Outreachy Project.




## How we propose to deal with Sustaining Team BAU requests, RFEs and bug fixes?

In order to allow the people working on initiatives to focus on them,
our Sustaining Team members will be responsible for dealing with all
these requests. They can be filed in the normal ways by community
members.

BAU infra requests can be made on the fedora-infrastructure issue tracker:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/
BAU releng requests can be made on the releng issue tracker:
https://pagure.io/releng/




## Project Team vs Sustaining Team Work Classification

### Project Initiatives
Initiatives are weeks to months long projects involving a team of
people to work on and deliver.

We have some deadlines that we try to work towards
Examples of initiatives:
 - rawhide package gating
 - FAS replacement
 - ...


### BAU infra/releng requests
Business As Usual (BAU) requests are simple requests that do not need
anyone to code something, just run some code to solve the request.

Examples of BAU requests:
  - A new mailing list
  - A new FAS/dist-git/copr group
  - A new IRC channel
  - A new project on ci.centos.org
  - A new tag in koji


### RFE

Requests For Enhancements (RFE) are requests to improve a changes made
to either an application or a workflow used in Fedora.


### Bug fixes

Bug fixes are what they are, request to fix bugs.

Examples of bug fixes:
  - Well you know: https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues or
pagure.io/pagure/issues are full of them ;-)






This is our team's current way of working, and we are seeing the
benefits from this but wanted to have your feedback too. We would like
to publish this as a 'policy' of sorts for our team on docs.fpo and on
the CentOS wiki and want to include you in this process.
So what are your thoughts on these ideas?
Are they suitable for you or do they need more adjustments?
If they do, what are your suggestions?

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Looking forward for your feedback,


Aoife

-- 
Aoife Moloney
Product Owner
Community Platform Engineering Team
Red Hat EMEA
Communications House
Cork Road
Waterford