Hello all,
Recently I attempted to start a mailing list thread that was the
product of a discussion on IRC about putting together an Atomic WG
workshop session[0] at DevConf[1].
This was then discussed during today's Atomic WG Meeting[2] where it
was decided that we should make this Workshop into a re-occurring
Virtual Fedora Activity Day(FAD[3]) instead taking place every 2
months.
I would like to propose the following:
Each Virtual FAD occurs on a Thursday, the day after a Fedora
Atomic WG meeting such that we can use the meeting the day before to
plan out the work to be done at the Virtual FAD. All work will be
tracked in a kanban[4] board, I've created one for this purpose in
Fedora's Taiga instance[5] (Note: I don't know why my FAS name is in
the URL, Taiga just does that).
In the kanban board, we would create cards in the NEW column
through out the two month cycle between Virtual FADs (these should
correlate to tickets in pagure[6]), then on the meeting before the FAD
we would "groom" the NEW cards that we want to accomplish on the
following day of the Virtual FAD, these "groomed" cards would be
placed into the READY column to signify they are ready to be worked
on. On the day of the VFAD, participants/contributors would then
assign a card to themselves that they want to work on, and move the
card into "IN PROGRESS" so that everyone knows what is being worked on
and nobody attempts to work on the same thing (unless that's
intentional, in that case both people's names should be listed in the
card description for reference). Once a task is done, then it should
be moved to the DONE column. This will give a good reflection of what
work was accomplished during the VFAD and we can (optionally) have a
retrospective meeting after the VFAD about what went well, what didn't
go well, and what we could do better next time. Also the day before
the next VFAD at the start of the "grooming" session (the weekly
Atomic WG meeting), all the previous VFAD's cards in the DONE column
from the previous VFAD should be moved to ARCHIVED for posterity.
Cards created should be units of work that can feasibly be
accomplished in a day or less worth of work.
I would like to ultimately propose we move to a more iterative cycle
where we use this workflow weekly instead of dedicating a single day
every 2 months (these periods of time are often known as a "sprint" in
Agile[7]) but my hope is that this is a good place to start and we can
improve over time.
If this is acceptable as a change we would like to adopt as a group, I
am happy to pre-populate the kanban board with work items we had
previously discussed that we wanted to accomplish as the original
agenda to the (now defunct) DevConf Workshop. From there I would
propose that the first meeting after DevConf (2017-02-01) be used as
the first grooming session and the following Thursday be the first
VFAD (2017-02-02). From there we would set a schedule for every 2
months to have a VFAD.
If everyone is in agreement, I'll also get a section of the Wiki page
(which we need to move out of the Cloud namespace) added to document
this workflow for newcomers who would like to join the Atomic WG.
Thank you,
-AdamM
[0] - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/WBTWBLOYWG66EDXJO2I4G3XY3X6EFAIF/
[1] - https://devconf.cz/index.html
[2] - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/36EBX5WS36OSO57GDWBJVIU6CXRXT237/
[3] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Activity_Day_-_FAD
[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
[5] - https://taiga.fedorainfracloud.org/project/maxamillion-fedora-atomic-wg/kanban
[6] - https://pagure.io/atomic-wg/issues
[7] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
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