mktgs, Across the Project, one of the tools we use to get better at what wedo is a Retrospective. This is a report compiled by contributors that more or less lists the things that went well/not-so-well, and ideas for improvement. You can find examples on the wiki (QA has some recent pages like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_QA_Retrospective and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Retrospective) Marketing Retrospectives were once based upon SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for doing marketing tasks like creating the alpha/beta/final announcements, briefing ambassadors, and other interesting and crucial work. Some are a bit dated, but you can find them here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Marketing_SOPs Since we didn't totally stick to an SOP for releases this year, we're just going to gather extra 'after the fact' feedback and data to make improvements to our process, going back to Fedora 22 when possible. Here are a few questions we'd like to take a stab at answering on our wiki page: - What did we do right? - What can we do better? - Where did we have gaps? - How did we bridge them? After we've gotten this retrospective fleshed out, we'd like to reinstate regular mktg meetings on IRC in early 2016. Keep an eye on the lists for updates. If folks have any questions about this email, or additional questions they think would provide value to the retrospective, please update the wiki before Friday 12/18 (or even just respond here, and commops will update the wiki from this thread.) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/2015_marketing_retrospective Looking Forward, --RemyD. P.S. -- Too often FOSS Communities must take care not to settle into negative feedback loops. Below is an excellent quote from some further reading on the subject of pointing fingers and blamery, recommended to me by mattdm: "...it's like peeing in your pants. You feel relieved and perhaps even nice and warm for a little while, but then it gets cold and uncomfortable..." ~Sydney Decker, "A Look at Looking in the Mirror" by J. Paul Reed.'' http://www.slideshare.net/jhand2/its-not-your-fault-blameless-post-mortems https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/ Retrospectives are all about identifying direction and moving forward in a positive manner :) -- Remy DeCausemaker Fedora Community Lead & Council <decause@xxxxxxxxxx> https://whatcanidoforfedora.org -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
