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* xref:mission_statement.adoc[CPE's Mission]
* xref:working_with_us.adoc[Working With the CPE Team]
* xref:mission_statement.adoc[The CPE Team Mission]
* xref:working_with_us.adoc[Working with Community Platform Engineering]
** xref:initiatives.adoc[Initiatives]

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= The Community Platform Engineering
= The Community Platform Engineering Team
In 2017 the Fedora Engineering team merged with the CentOS Engineering team
to form what is now called the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team.

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This document documents a proposed workflow to get new initiatives onto the CPE backlog.
== The different steps
== The Different Steps
The process to bring something to the attention of the CPE team is composed
from different steps:
The process to bring something to the attention of the CPE team consists of
several steps:
* Propose a new initiative; this proposal gives the what and why of the work
asked.
* Based on the proposal the team then decides if it fits its mission
statement and thus if it is worth pursuing, or if it would land on
someone else to work on.
* The CPE team together with the submitter work on figuring out the best
approach to answer the demand.
* Propose a new initiative; this proposal gives the what and why of the
work requested.
* Based on the proposal, the team then decides if it fits its mission
statement and thus if it is worth being pursued by the team, or if this work
falls under the responsibility of someone else.
* For work considered in scope, the CPE team together with the submitter work
on figuring out the best approach to fulfill the request.
* Based on the estimated amount of work, the initiatives currently in
progress, priorities, and return on investment, the CPE team decides
whether they can commit to this initiative, and if so a rough timeline
whether they can commit to this initiative, and if so, a rough timeline
for it.
=== Write down a requirement document
=== Writing Down a Requirement Document
The CPE team has link:https://hackmd.io/@pingou/rJd0HaipV[prepared a template]
for you to use to write down your requirement document.
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* Why do you think it is worth for the CPE team to work on it
The second part will be filled out later by you and the CPE team once your
proposal has been accepted based on its what and why.
proposal has been accepted based on its subject and the specified reason.
=== Proposing a new initiative
=== Proposing a New Initiative
Once you have written down your requirement document, submit it to the CPE
team for review.
To do this, simply open a ticket on the link:https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal[CPE-initiatives issue tracker].
team for review. To do this, simply open a ticket on the
link:https://pagure.io/cpe/initiatives-proposal[CPE-initiatives issue tracker].
You will be asked in this ticket a few things:
You will be asked a few things in this ticket:
- a link to your requirement document
- potential dependencies for this initiative (dependencies on people or
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- potential deadlines that could impact the initiative
=== First decision point: is this initiative for the CPE team?
=== First Decision Point: Is This Initiative for the CPE Team?
Based on these information the CPE team will decide if this initiative is
in the scope of the CPE team (ie: does it fit its xref:mission_statement.adoc[Mission
Statement]), but also if there is a clear benefit for the communities the CPE team is
involved in.
Based on these information the CPE team will decide if this initiative is in
scope for it (i.e. does it fit its xref:mission_statement.adoc[Mission
Statement]), but also if there is a clear benefit for the communities the CPE
team is involved in.
If your initiative doesn't fit for the CPE team, it does not mean your
challenge is not worth pursuing but the CPE team has limited resources
and needs to be careful on how they are spent.
If your initiative doesnt fit in the purview of the CPE team, it does not mean
your challenge is not worth pursuing but that the CPE team has limited
resources and needs to be careful on how they are spent.
Every two weeks, the CPE will meet to go over the initiative proposed. At
this point, the CPE team will decide on accepting or not your initiative or
if needed appoint someone to work with you to polish this document, improve
the user-story, discuss with you what is in scope and what is out of scope.
Every two weeks, the CPE will meet to go over the proposed initiatives. At this
point, the CPE team will decide if it accepts your initiative or, if necessary,
appoint someone who will work with you to polish this document, improve the
user-story, and discuss with you what is in scope and what isnt.
=== Figuring the technical solution
=== Figuring out the Technical Solution
If your proposal is validate for the CPE team, you will be asked to
collaborate with some CPE team representative to figure out the best
technical solution to answer the use-case and users stories set in your
requirements document.
If your proposal fits for the CPE team, you will be asked to collaborate with a
team representative to figure out the best technical solution to answer the
use-case and user stories set in your requirements document.
This step may involve calling for feedback the communities affected by this
This step may involve requesting feedback from the communities affected by this
change.
The second part of the requirement document should be kept up to date to
reflect the technical solution of choice and possibly the solutions
considered with why they were rejected (this could also be stored in a
different document linked to).
reflect the technical solution of choice and, if applicable, document other
approaches and why they were rejected (this could also be stored in a different
place linked from the requirement document).
=== Final decision and prioritization
=== Final Decision and Prioritization
Finally, once the two parts of the requirement document have been filled,
the CPE team and its stakeholder will be consulted to decide if the
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backlog of the team.
If the initiative is approved, the ticket will be closed as accepted and an
epic will be created in the link:https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/pingou-cpe-dev-1/epics[CPE taiga board].
It will then be up to the team working on this epic to track their work in
taiga or anywhere else, granted they document in the epic where they are
tracking it.
epic will be created in the
link:https://teams.fedoraproject.org/project/pingou-cpe-dev-1/epics[CPE Taiga
board]. It will then be up to the team working on this epic to track their
work in Taiga or elsewhere (which should be documented in the epic).
If the initiative is not accepted by the CPE team, the ticket will be
If the initiative is not accepted by the CPE team, the ticket will be
closed as rejected with some explanations as to why.
Every quarter, the CPE team will meet to plan their work for the coming
quarter. During this meeting, the team will go over the proposed and
accepted initiatives, weight them against each other, prioritize them and
pick the ones that will be worked on.
Every quarter of the year, the CPE team will meet to plan their work for the
next one. During this meeting, the team will go over the proposed and accepted
initiatives, weigh them against each other, prioritize them and pick the ones
that will be worked on.
== Conclusions
This new workflow will be a change from how the CPE team has worked up
until now. Its core idea is to maximize the output of the team to the
community. We are not able to accept everything and anything and we want to
make sure what we accept is properly limited in scope and time.
Hopefully this will allow us to work on more initiatives and bring more
beneficent changes to our communities.
This new workflow will be a change from how the CPE team has worked until now.
Its core idea is to maximize the output of the team to the community. We are
not able to accept everything and anything and we want to make sure that what
we accept is properly limited in scope and time. Hopefully this will allow us
to work on more initiatives and bring more beneficial changes to our
communities.

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= The CPE's Mission
= The CPE Team Mission
== Our Mission
Our mission lays on three axes:
Our mission rests on three axes:
.Our Missions
.Our Mission
[#img-mission]
[caption="Figure 1: "]
image::our_missions.jpg[Our Missions,500,500]
image::our_missions.jpg[Our Mission,500,500]
* **Infrastructure**: provide power and ping to the different systems that are
used by our community.
* **Application maintenance**: for the applications that we maintain, we work on
bug fixes, new features and community development.
* **Initiatives**: for limited time and scope we dedicate some of our engineers
and adminstrators to initiatives deemed important and beneficial to the
communities we are involved in.
* **Infrastructure**: To provide power and ping to the different systems that
are used by our community.
* **Application maintenance**: For the applications that we maintain, we work
on bug fixes, new features and community development.
* **Initiatives**: For a limited time and scope we dedicate some of our
engineers and adminstrators to initiatives deemed important and beneficial to
the communities we are involved in.
One of the key challenges this team is facing is balancing these three axes.
One of the key challenges this team faces is balancing these three axes.
For this reason, we worked on the following Mission Statement.
== What is our Mission Statement?
== What Is Our Mission Statement?
__The Community Platform Engineering Team is responsible for the
infrastructure and services that support developing, building, and
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* __Tooling to enable all of the above__
== Why a mission statement?
== Why a Mission Statement?
A mission statement means the team shares a common vision about what our
work is or should be. It gives us clear boundaries for our work and it
helps us having a critical view on our work (current or coming): “Does this
fit our mission statement?”. With this in mind we can focus on bringing more
value to the community. In other words, we want to maximize our value and
helps us having a critical view on our work (current or in the future): “Does
this fit our mission statement?”. With this in mind we can focus on bringing
more value to the community. In other words, we want to maximize our value and
impact in a targeted mission rather than having limited impact on a broad
spectrum.

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= Working with Community Platform Engineering
This document explains how to efficiently work with the CPE teams.
This document explains how to efficiently work with the CPE team.
Your close attention to this document will help both you and us
do the work you are asking us to do.
== Urgent Issues / Triage of incoming Issues
== Urgent Issues / Triage of Incoming Issues
Weekly a team member will be designated "oncall". You can find this
person on IRC by using '.oncall' in any of our various channels.
Weekly a team member will be designated “oncall”. You can find this
person on IRC by using '.oncall' in any of our various IRC channels.
When available, this person:
1. Accepts urgent work items for the team, for example a important
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3. Triages incoming tickets for urgent items that need work outside
of normal triage process.
== Normal operations requests
== Normal Operation Requests
All normal operation requests should be filed as tickets, work items will not
be accepted via private emails or IRC unless the oncall person determines them
to be urgent.
All normal operations requests should be filed as tickets,
work items will not be accepted via private emails or IRC unless
the oncall person determines them to be urgent.
== Normal Application Requests
== Normal applications requests
All normal application bugs should be filed in the upstream tracker for the
respective application where possible, unless its a deployment issue.
All normal application bugs should be filed in the upstream
tracker for that application where possible, unless it's a
deployment issue.
== Larger projects / feature requests
== Larger Projects / Feature Requests
All tasks involving new applications, major deployments, major development work
or the like will be asked to follow the xref:initiatives.adoc[New Initiative
Workflow]. It will then be scoped and prioritized from there.
== General ticket considerations
== General Ticket Considerations
Please provide as much information as you can in your ticket to avoid
back and forth for information. If you know your issue is going to
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* tells us how important or urgent this is to you.
* includes any error messages or output you see.
It's up to you as ticket filer to follow your ticket, provide information
that is asked for and keep us aware of any urgency you may have, do not
simply file and forget your ticket.
Its up to you as ticket filer to follow up on your ticket, provide information
that is asked for and keep us aware of any urgency you may have, do not simply
file and forget your ticket.
If you are unsure where to file a ticket or what information
to place in it, please ask the oncall person or mail the team at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org/
If you are unsure where to file a ticket or which information you should
provide, please ask the oncall person or mail the team at
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org/
Your ticket may take a while to process depending on the work
Your ticket may take a while to process, depending on the work
that the team has and how important we think it is. If your ticket
is blocking you, make sure you note that in the ticket but keep in
mind that we may be working on tickets that are blocking more people.
== IRC
IRC is a great way to communicate, but please do not ping team members directly.
Instead, update your ticket with any new information you have and when the
team member(s) working on that issue have time/availability they may contact
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== Direct emails
Email is also a great communication method, but if you mail work items or
information to one person directly, they cannot easily hand off the issue,
you must wait for them to have time to address the issue (when others could
perhaps have already solved it, etc). So, please avoid direct emails and instead
update tickets with any information you want to add.
information to one person directly, they cannot easily hand off the issue, you
must wait for them to have time to address the issue (when others could perhaps
have already solved it, etc). Therefore, please avoid direct emails and update
tickets with any information you want to add instead.
== RFC 1149
link:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149[Pidgeons are too slow] for most work
items, instead update tickets. (and thanks for reading this far).
items, update tickets instead (and thanks for reading this far).