2022-08-15 BTR Meeting Notes

10 min

New BTR Project Board

@Sofiane Bebert

Project Board

• Views

  • Issues that need volunteers

  • Board view - does it add any value?

  • Release view, grouped by Milestones

• How do we make sure the issues created in the BTR repo are linked to the project?

  • add-to-project.yml

• How do we make un-milestoned issues more visible?

• New people finding issues

  • “Needs Volunteers” includes tickets about to be closed

  • Is there an instance people can use?

 20 min

Retrospective

  @Sofiane Bebert

Board

• What went well

  • First BTR test plan and the community was involved in testing

    • Test plan was built by aggregating tests from other community members

    • How can we add new tests?

    • Did we test any new feature?

    • Do we test any other services (e.g. ecommerce)

    • How can we add some regression? Add tests for issues that came up after the release.

      • How do implement it? Test manager to review issues that came up after the release and create testing stories for anything that’s appropriate.

      • How do keep the total number of tests to run under control? Flag tests as “one time” test to mark tests that can be removed after the next release.

  • Release notes were started with the release branch & included new/removed settings and waffle flags

    • Finding the new/deprecated settings is a bit time consuming

      • The settings/flags isn’t versioned. Adding versioning would help.

        • Feanil might be able to help

      • Is the process document

        • The issues has notes

        • The confluence page

        • Create a template for Release notes instructions

• What we need to improve

  • Review and update release instructions

    • BTR Issue

    • What are the issues?

      • Multiple steps with a lot of conditions

      • Different people are needed for different steps

      • Some of the steps needs some lead time

      • We need someone to purely focus on the process

    • Can we create an issue?

      • There are multiple steps involved

      • Can we template a series of steps

        • Open-craft might have tool => Listaflow

          • Speak to Fox

    • Parent release issue that capture main steps

      • Each main step can also be broken down into smaller issues and delegated

      • The Release manager will be in charge of the parent issue and also responsible for adding time sensitive items to the agenda for this meeting.

  • Experimental Features

    • What is an experimental feature?

      • @Kyle McCormick will propose a new OEP

        • Repo Metadata → This group decision

        • ecommerce → can we at the very least have a reference implementation available

    • How do we communicate them?