[General] ops team update: May and June 2007

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Update on ops team discussions:

+ Most conversations about overall project coordination have moved to 
the "Preview" meeting (and to this list):
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/Projects/PreviewReleaseCountdown

+ Sheila did a feature review for Mitch back in April, and he is now 
actively using desktop and hub. He'll send feedback to the users list.

+ We have a few OSCON presentations: one on open design (Mimi and Ted), 
one on the windmill automated testing framework (Mikeal and Adam), and a 
lightning talk on the state of the project (me). Bryan Stearns, Brian 
Moseley and Robin Dunn will also attend the conference. At OSCON we'll 
have "launch" cards with the new logo and the tagline.

+ We've had several conversations about better communication, from being 
more consistent about posting meeting notes and bug council decisions on 
lists, to doing more blog posts about project happenings. We'll probably 
see more emphasis on this post-preview. We'll move to sending out ops 
team meeting notes each week (as Heikki did this week).

+ We've also discussed decision making at OSAF, what is working and what 
needs to be improved. We have our governance principles as a guide; the 
ops team often discusses specific examples. We've been trying to be more 
clear (on lists) who is the "owner/driver" of various decisions or 
issues, when that is not obvious from project roles.
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/OsafProjectGovernance

+ Jared gave us an overview on metrics (from Chandler Hub and from other 
sources like wiki, websites, mailing lists). More to come from Jared.

+ We talked about how to better integrate the service into release 
planning and problem tracking. Decisions: Jared is running a release 
meeting for server and hub; open issues with the production service are 
to be discussed at the Preview meeting; we're using bugzilla to track 
problems with the production service (tracking under the "Sharing 
Service" bugzilla product).

+ Ted is the "owner/driver" of the launch plan for Preview; we're 
discussing that on the pr list.

All ops team meeting notes can be found here:
http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/OperationsHome

Cheers,
Katie