ODPi Egeria Weekly Meeting 10th September 2020

ODPi Egeria Weekly Meeting - 10th September 2020

Attendees

• Mandy Chessell
• Chris Replogle
• Maryna Strelchuk
• David Radley
• Nigel Jones
• Billy Bittles
• Ernie Ostic
• Jakob Moravec

Agenda

• Further refinement of Egeria TSC proposal (see below)
• AOB

Actions/Notes

Outline of a Technical Steering Committee for Egeria

Goal

To build a sustainable, inclusive and diverse community of contributors and consumers for Egeria that focuses on smooth adoption whilst delivering valuable, innovative function.

Proposed responsibilities

• Release planning - maintain the roadmap based on known activity by the Egeria community.
• Project health
  • review community status dashboard and take action to strengthen the community.
  • identify other technologies to partner with to broaden Egeria's ecosystem (and influence)
  • help key vendors interested in using Egeria
  • Improving resiliance of project by ensuring there are multiple people who know each component and process (bus factor).
• Project quality - review processes, documentation and testing levels appropriate for each function depending on its maturity
• Communication and events - organize content for blogs, social media etc as well as organize monthly webinars. Identify opportunities for conference presentations that support community development.
• Governance processes
  • leading the discussion and maintenance of the governance documents
    • Code of Conduct
    • Operations Guide
    • Community Guide
    • Contributor Resources
  • approve new contributors and award badges
  • approve new maintainers and award badges

Proposed roles

The roles identify individuals responsible for tracking and maintaining documentation about an aspect of Egeria's operation. They look for opportunities to grow the Egeria community. Roles should rotate regularly.

• TSC leader - organizes calls and chairs the meetings - responsibility of the project leader
• Security leader - reports on vulnerabilities and the results of the security scans. Coordinates security workgroups.
• Release leader - reports on the contributions flowing into each release and maintains the release plan
• Comms leader - manages the flow of communications generated by the activities of the project
• Events leader - manages the event calendar - webinars, conference attendance etc
• Community leader - reports on state of the community, manages weekly community call agenda
• Innovation leader - looks at work and identifies innovative practices and features that we should celebrate
• Architecture leader - maintains the architecture principles, provides education and ensures component owners are maintaining design documentation.
• Adoption leader - focuses on ensuring the documentation and content of Egeria supports the understanding, architecture and deployment

Proposed activities

• Monthly meetings to review status gathered by each of the leaders and plan next steps (open and anyone can attend) plus
  • Sounding board for maintainers on new features
  • Sounding board for organizations wanting to adopt
  • Sponsoring high value features that will help the community grow
  • Reviewing project health and organizing changes when needed