Working with Community Linux Engineering

This document explains how the CLE team works.

We break down work requests that the team responds to into two categories, which we believe benefits both the CLE team and the communities we serve as they allow the team to operate efficiently and allow us to plan our work.

  • Initiatives handled by dedicated project teams

    • Initiatives are projects that require multiple team members to complete over multiple weeks/months, in depth scoping and timelines

    • The process for submitting a new initiative is described in the New Initiative workflow document.

  • Work requests handled by the Infra & Releng Team

    • This team responds to 'lights on work' and requests that come in on an ad hoc & regular basis such as:

      • BAU infra/releng requests

      • Bug fixes

Some general best practices when working with us are: * Do not ping a single person

+ By doing this you reduce the number of people having access to your request drastically, meaning, if that person is busy with something else, your request may take much longer to be processed.

  • If it is not in a ticket, it did not happen

    We need to have everything in tickets. This helps us share knowledge within the team, efficiently track our workload, and identify recurring issues which may be indicative of an underlying problem we need to fix in a more systemic manner.

    Even if you have discussed something on IRC, or in a corridor with someone in the team, you want to log the discussion and its outcome in a ticket so we can get back to it later when we need to investigate why this change was made.

  • When you cannot open a ticket

    There are a few cases where it is acceptable to send an email or to reach directly to people, for example if you cannot access or authenticate to the ticket tracking system :)

    In this case, you do not want to send your email or ping a single person (cf the first point above).

    • In Fedora, you can use the email admin @ fedoraproject.org

    • In CentOS, you can contact the sysadmins on the #centos-devel channel on irc.libera.chat

Both projects have their own, additional, processes for their day to day work, which you can find in:

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