Sorry, I meant to forward this to linaro-dev.
James On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:50:00 -0500, James Westby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Since we use Launchpad so much within Linaro this may be of interest to > some. > > I am the Launchpad stakeholder representative for Linaro, so if you wish > to request any features or escalate any bugs then please feel free to > talk to me. > > Thanks, > > James > > > We've made some changes to how we organise the Launchpad team! > > We're no longer divided into application-based teams (Bugs, Code, > Foundations, Registry, Soyuz and Translations). Instead, we now have five > cross-domain engineering squads: three focused on features and two on > maintenance. > > > How does this affect you? > -------------------------- > > When you want to speak to someone about a specific part of Launchpad, > whether for help, to escalate something or about an operational issue, > things have changed a little. > > Specifically: > > * For help and any other operational issues related to Launchpad, you should > either send an email to the launchpad-users mailing list[1], or file a > question on the Launchpad project[2]. (Reminder: these forums are public.) > > * If your request would benefit from interactive discussions, drop by in > #launchpad on Freenode where one of the people working on the maintenance > squads will be able to help you. If your request isn't suitable for public > consumption, you can reach the same people on the #launchpad-ops channel on > the private Canonical IRC server. > > * To prioritize feature requests and to escalate other bugs, you should > contact your stakeholders representative. See [3] for the list of people. > > * You can also always bounce ideas to the developers list [4]. > > [1] https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users > [2] https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+addquestion > [3] https://wiki.canonical.com/Launchpad/Strategy/StakeholderMeeting > [4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/canonical-launchpad > > Short-term, we also expect some churn as people are exposed to areas they > weren't used to before. But down-the-line, we'll have much more distributed > knowledge coverage across the whole application. > > > How the squads work > ------------------- > > The squads will alternate between "development project" and "maintenance" > modes. > > The three development squads will work on longer term projects, usually > resulting in new functionality. Once such a squad has finished a project > they'll swap places with one of the two maintenance squads. > > Bugs, operational issues and so on will be taken care of by the maintenance > squads. > > Deciding which development projects to take on will remain the responsibility > of our strategist (Jonathan Lange) in collaboration with the Launchapd > Stakeholders group. > > You can find a list of who is in each squad on our dev wiki [5]. > > [5] https://dev.launchpad.net/Squads > > > Why are we doing this? > ---------------------- > > Our app-based teams served us well, but were becoming a liability: > > * Many parts of Launchapd, such as Blueprint, didn't have a dedicated team > and were basically unmaintained. > > * Each team was responsible for both new features within their app as well > as maintenance. That slowed both of these. > > * Projects that required cross-app integration suffered from hand-off and > coordination problem. > > With this new structure, we expect to see: > > * Better cohesion across the application, as one squad will be responsible > for the implementation of new aspects across the whole application. > > * Reduced cycle-time both for bug fixes and for new features as the > context-switching will be removed. > > It will be my pleasure to answer any questions you might have regarding > this reorg. > > -- > Francis J. Lacoste > [email protected] Non-text part: application/pgp-signature > -- > ubuntu-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.canonical.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-platform _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
