2024-10-07 BTR Meeting Minutes

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@Jorge Londoño

Redwood retrospective:

• Redwood.1 Retrospective 🌳⏪

• GH board

@Jorge Londoño

The following action items were created:

• More granular Gantt charts · Issue #388 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Community-supported and always-available sandbox environments · Issue #389 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Tests review · Issue #390 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• “no test id” or “no test case” issues · Issue #391 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Involving the Maintainers WG in the testing process · Issue #392 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Automated sync between the testing spreadsheet and GH · Issue #393 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Documenting the process for reporting security issues · Issue #394 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• Backports policy and information radiators · Issue #395 · openedx/wg-build-test-release

• @Maria Grimaldi will create a “retrospective” label in the BTR GH project. After that, @Jorge Londoño will then use the label to categorize the Redwood retrospective action items.

Sumac

• sumac.master ~ 2024-10-23

• sumac.1 ~ 2024-12-09

• Alignment with the https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tWgp9LXNg4sfWYd_0ghNl6qfIZZ9851MtGBXPeSgzFs and monthly follow-ups led by the Product WG Community Release Planning

• Current BTR roles assignment (TO BE CONFIRMED)

  • Group Chair: @Jorge Londoño

  • Release Manager: @Maksim Sokolskiy

  • Release Testing Coordinator: @Peter Pinch

  • Quality Assurance Manager: Vacant

  • Release Documentation Expert: @Chris Patti

  • Bug Triagers: @Maria Grimaldi @Donato Bracuto

  • Security Patcher: @Mariagabriela Giorgianni

• Changing the BTR meetup frequency during the testing phase

• Release blockers

  • Ubuntu Upgrade · Issue #377 · openedx/platform-roadmap

  • https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-authoring/issues/1199

@Jorge Londoño

Volunteers to fill the BTR open positions

• Group Chair

• Release Manager: @Farhaan Bukhsh

• Release Testing Coordinator: @Andrés González

• Quality Assurance Manager

• Release Documentation Expert

• Bug Triagers:

  • @Donato Bracuto

  • @Andrés Sebastián Espinel Reyna

• Security Patcher: @Alejandro Cárdenas

• Product Liaison: @Chelsea Rathbun

• @Chris Patti will create an issue in the BTR GitHub project to discuss potential improvements to the release documentation process. Specifically, to understand what should be included in the release notes among all the commits and changes included in a new release.

• @Maksim Sokolskiy will contact @Farhaan Bukhsh to begin planning and coordinating the handover of the release manager role.

• @Peter Pinch will contact @Farhaan Bukhsh to begin planning and coordinating the handover of the Release Manager role.

• @Maria Grimaldi will contact @Donato Bracuto and @Andrés Sebastián Espinel Reyna to begin planning and coordinating the handover of the bug triager role.