[teampractices] Addition to Scrum of Scrums?

[Steven Walling]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards at wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
> Scrum of scrums is not about discussing blockers/dependencies to patchsets
> - it's about discovering what is preventing us from getting our work done
> and letting people know when we might be about to do something that could
> potentially impact others/other teams. Conversation tends to be technical
> and strategic, coordinating around dependencies.
>

Within that context, I still wonder if it might make sense for someone to
represent strategically relevant projects being worked on in the community.


> I can imagine having a community engineer or community engineering
> advocate in the SoS, but more for the purpose of coordinating/driving
> volunteer work in the broader context of the staff engineering tames rather
> than pushing to get patches reviewed. If the problem is that there are a
> lot of volunteer patchsets languishing, I do not think SoS is the
> appropriate forum to deal with this.
>

Gotcha. I think that's fair.

-- 
Steven Walling,
Product Manager
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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