[Product] MidCycle Raw Notes and Actions

Shamail itzshamail at gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 21:16:26 UTC 2016


Hi Kenny/everyone,

There is one more action item....

Leong:
Send out poll to determine which of the two Asia Pacific time-zone friendly meeting options (discussed at the mid-cycle) will work the best for the team.

Thanks,
Shamail

> On Feb 19, 2016, at 4:51 AM, Kenny Johnston <kencjohnston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi team,
> 
> For those who weren't able to join us, last night we wrapped up our Product
> Work Group Midcycle in London (well Hayes really). Carol will be sending
> more detailed notes which we will discuss during our team meeting on Monday
> but I wanted to compile the action items taken on our Etherpad[1] during
> our two day working meetings. Some of the context is missing without the
> summary, but I wanted to compile the actions for those of us who are on
> long-flights over the next couple of days.
> 
> 
> *Actions for All PWG Members:*AR: Have a team training on the updated
> version of Gerrit that includes edit capability from a Browser
> AR: Each company take steps to encourage budgeting review time for their
> upstream contributors (ex. 1 day/week or 5 reviews/1submission, etc).
> AR: Ahead of the design summits, PWG members discuss priorities with their
> developers and gain their commitment to support these priorities in the
> pre-design summit discussions and during the actual design summit meetings.
> AR: Add "openstack/openstack-user-stories" to your watched Projects on
> Gerrit - https://review.openstack.org/#/settings/projects
> AR: Socialize the concept of adding development resources (web dev) to the
> effort to create a User Story Tracker dashboard within your companies and
> Identify resources to participate
> 
> *Actions for All PWG User Story Owners:*
> AR: Update your user stories to reflect the Appropriate roles; Review in
> the PWG team meeting
> 
> *Actions for All PWG Cross Project Liasons and Roadmap Team:*
> AR: Schedule 15 min interviews with PTLs to discuss and extract the
> information for the roadmap, instead of just soliciting info via email.
> AR: Each PWG Project Owner needs to provide their input to Shamail/Heidi
> Joy by 3/10
> 
> *Actions for Rolling Upgrades User Story Team:*
> AR: Review Rolling Upgrades related specs (both cross project and single
> proejct) and identify any gaps.
> AR: Review Available Rolling Upgrade Specs for Gaps or conflicts with User
> Story
> AR: Edit the User Story to match the updated template, add comment on
> Cross-Specs link line to to indicate readiness to submit the User Story
> into Cross Project spec (minus the gaps analysis) and integrates the use
> cases from the different projects/project specs into the Proposed folder.
> Create a corresponding Tracker (will contain 1 object). Target for update
> 2/26
> 
> *Actions for Carol:*
> AR: Add Review of User Stories in PWG team meetings? Document dicussions in
> Gerrit reviews.
> AR: In Monday's PWG Team meeting review the list of projects and owners.
> AR: For our Austin meeting. Add a topic on revisiting Themes to the team
> meeting in Austin. Discuss adding a cross-project theme
> AR: Schedule this discussion for PWG team meeting on 2/29
> AR: Add an agenda item to the 2/29 PWG team meeting for
> updating/dispositioning existing User Stories into the new work flow and
> information model.
> AR: Talk to Tom F about updating the moderator guide to add this as a
> responsibility of session moderators.
> AR: Add Review of Brainstormed New User Stories and Assigned Drafters
> AR: Add discussion of Austin plans to gather feedback on 2/22 meeting agenda
> AR: Add discussion of Story Board and it's application to our work flow or
> meeting opertaions to gather feedback on 2/29 meeting agenda
> AR: Create a summary of the mid-cycle discussions and send out to PWG ML
> (maintain original version too)
> 
> *Actions for Shamail:*
> AR: Adjust workflow and repo folder structure for new process - Proposed
> Change: Remove Draft folder. The User Story discussion/review happens via
> Gerrit thru comments and discussion. When there is agreement on the User
> Story, the user story is merged into Proposed.
> AR: Create PPT template for CPLs to fill out.
> AR: Take all PWG 100-ft view content from CPLs (due 3/11) and provide to
> Heidi Joy by 3/16. Ideally, that is just one-slide-per-project (100-ft
> view) with the most important new features highlighted, plus one slide on
> dominant themes from among the PWG's 5.
> AR: Document Concept of User Story Dashboard
> 
> *Actions for Rocky:*
> AR: Update the Stable Branch User Story per this discussion, Use the new
> work flow to advance this User Story,In the next patch move to the Proposed
> folder
> 
> *Actions for Mike Perez:*
> AR: Get the PWG repo included in the test engine so that format and
> completeness are automatically checked. Automated Template Check: Shamail,
> Mike.
> AR: Create 1 place where each Project will list the date/time/format for
> their pre-design summitt discussion (similar to the meet-up page).
> AR: Explore plan A for building a User Story Tracker with the foundation
> and bring update to PWG team meeting.
> AR: Propose Adding User Story to the Cross Project Template
> 
> *Actions for Heidi Joy:*
> AR: Send template for Roadmap collection email & PTL Interview to the PWG ML
> 
> *Actions for Kenny:*
> AR: Add a field to the User Story Template to link to the Cross-Spec
> Entry(s). This is the basis for creating the Tracker for the User Story as
> the Cross Spec entry will have links to the Specs for each Project and the
> Blueprints to implement that Spec and the Commits that implement the
> Blueprint.
> AR: Add a field to the User Story Template to link to the User Story
> Tracker.
> AR: Rename Problem Definition to Problem Description, Edit our template to
> make User Stories, Usage Scenarios and Opportunity/Justification as
> subsections to Problem description Add CPS Link Field, Remove:
> Requirements, Gaps, Affected by Fields.
> AR: Create a summary of the Action Items and send out to PWG ML
> 
> *Actions for Piet:*
> AR: Join the cross-project discussion and work to agree on a common set of
> Role names and definitions that the Community can use - from setting
> policy, to describing requirements/needs
> AR: Contact Heidi Bretz (heidi at openstack.org) for data on the Operators
> Certification program and the underlying data
> 
> -- 
> Kenny Johnston
> [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/PWG-LON16-MidCycle
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