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

[Max Binder]

CCing Andre in case he is not subscribed :)

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Kevin Smith <ksmith at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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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> Kevin Smith
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Kristen Lans <klans at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Max Binder <mbinder at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>> *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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