RFC: Proposal for Rel-Eng project management/planning

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:36:46 -0500
Adam Miller <maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
>     Hot off the heals of my email to start a conversation about what
> all it's going to take to get the Fedora Rel-Eng Staging environment
> up and running again[0] I wanted to make a proposal for a new way to
> manage projects that can be broken down into small consumable "units
> of work" much in line with kanban[1].

Note that many of these topics would be good for a meeting/more
interactive discussion, IMHO. ;) 

> Proposal:
>     Projects would be planned in the open in irc meetings (logged with
> meetbot) and documented in the wiki for general overview and
> posterity, from there this is broken down into specific units of work
> that can be tracked and picked up (hopefully) by any interested member
> of the Rel-Eng team. 

Well, the wiki is kind of horrible for planning things. It might work,
but it's much easier for a wiki page to start growing moss and decaying
than a trac ticket IMHO. So, I would suggest trac (or whatever
ticketing system) instead of wiki for projects. 

> I like to think this will make the process of
> work transparent to the broader community as well as offer an
> approachable avenue for new Rel-Eng team members to join in allowing
> them to select low-hanging-fruit type units of work to use as learning
> experiences.
>     Also, the details of this project planning workflow (whatever it
> ends up being) would be documented in the Fedora wiki such that it
> could be used as part of an "on-boarding" document for community
> members interested in joining the Fedora Rel-Eng team.

Sure, that sounds great. 

> My hope here is to introduce a new piece of infrastructure to fill
> this requirement that provides a kanban-style board of cards much like
> Trello[2] but using a FOSS solution that we can host ourselves. For
> this I'd like to propose the use of Cantas[3]. (This part would likely
> need a request sent to Fedora Infrastructure team unless we're fine
> just hosting it somewhere like OpenShift Online).
> 
> Questions, comments and general snide remarks welcome! :)

As mentioned in a followup, it would need to get packaged up, etc if we
want to host one. 

kevin
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