RFC: Proposal for Rel-Eng project management/planning

[Adam Miller]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Adam Miller
<maxamillion at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>> 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. ;)
>
> +1 - How do I request something be put on the Rel-Eng meeting agenda
> for next week?
>
>>
>>> 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.
>
> That's fair, I'm open to any solution that the group prefers. I mostly
> suggested the wiki because it's the only collaborative document
> editing platform I know of inside the Fedora Infrastructure.
>
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>
> It's been packaged upstream[0], I'll reach out to upstream and find
> out if they're interested in submitting to Fedora for Package Review.
>

Looks like someone beat me to the punch, I added a comment and will
follow along:

https://github.com/onepiecejs/nodejs-cantas/issues/65

-AdamM

> One other thing to note is we might need to contribute a patch
> upstream for an auth plugin to integrate with FAS, I'll try to find
> some time to dig into that a little in the near future.
>
> -AdamM
>
> [0] - https://github.com/onepiecejs/nodejs-cantas/blob/master/nodejs-cantas.spec
>
>> kevin
>>
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