On 10/6/22 6:39 AM, Taavi Väänänen wrote:
This is news to me. In general, I feel that over the last few months, quite a lot of planning and progress reporting has moved from our various public channels (most notably Phabricator and -cloud-admin on IRC) to private ones. I don't particularly like this trend.
I'm definitely interested in talking and thinking about this more. I think it is true that the cloud services staff have started coordinating more frequently in video calls, so your comment is a useful reminder that we need to redouble our efforts on post-call documentation.
Are there other topics, decisions, or work areas that have recently vanished behind the curtain? And, if so, do you have thoughts about how we can be better?
As a team we definitely aspire to do essentially all of our work in public view, but lately I've been struggling a bit with what exactly that should mean. Communication channels proliferate and everyone seems to only get a 30% view of what's happening depending on which feeds they follow. A good example is Arturo's blog posts about Toolforge futures[0] which are quite effective as /potential/ communication but may not have actually reached the eyes most in need of an update.
-Andrew
[0] https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2022/03/14/toolforge-and-grid-engine/