[teampractices] [TPG/URGENT-ISH] Thoughts on Gerrit Cleanup Day

[Kevin Smith]

Great notes. I don't see any red flags.

I agree with Kristen's Friday concerns (while appreciating the concept of a
"fun" day). And I agree that the wording will be very important, along with
buy-in from managers.



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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Kristen Lans <klans at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Overall seems fine to me, especially given that this is an experiment. As
> with all experiments, I wonder: how will you know you are successful? I see
> things like "All open changesets submitted by *new* volunteers (as opposed
> to new changesets alone) in the last three months should have at least one
> review.". Probably be good to be really clear and explicit about what
> success looks like for this event in order to evaluate whether or not it
> will be an ongoing thing.
>
> One more feedback: depending on what time this starts, Friday can be
> tricky as SF AM on Friday is the start of the weekend for many
> international peeps.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> *The Gellerman TL;DR:* Please check out this etherpad
>> <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GerritCleanupOrg> and voice any
>> thoughts or concerns by reply to this email thread, so I can relay that to
>> the Phab epic <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531> and AKlapper.
>> Fairly time-sensitive, as AKlapper wants to start emailing the tentative
>> plan this week, no later than Friday.
>>
>> Hello TPGers,
>>
>> Andre and I finally got together and had an engaging discussion this
>> morning regarding organizing a Gerrit Cleanup Day (see epic:
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531).
>>
>> This etherpad is the meeting notes:
>> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/GerritCleanupOrg
>>
>> As the TPG liaison to to this task, but not necessarily the "steward," I
>> would love if TPG could provide feedback to our 1:1. I channeled my inner
>> Joel when trying to break down the goals of the day and defining "done,"
>> and my inner Kristen with superior note-taking. :)
>>
>> Andre is hoping to start the scheduling process no later than Friday, and
>> would like to draft emails to get line manager and community buy-in
>> sometime early this week. Your thoughts and process-guru-ness are
>> appreciated!
>>
>> Max
>>
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