Hi,
At our first meeting of the year, we didn't have time to complete the web team OKRs and prioritization for the first quarter, so we scheduled another meeting to do this. Here are the minutes.
We might have more of those emails in the weeks to come, as we have a bunch of brainstorms and planning sessions coming up. Let me know if this is too noisy...
# Roll call: who's there and emergencies
anarcat, kez, lavamind, linus joined us.
# 2022 Q1/Q2 web OKRs
gaba and anarcat previously established a proposal for a set of OKRs for the web team, which were presented during the meeting, and copied below:
## Proposal
* OKR: make the donate page easier to maintain and have it support .onion donations ([milestone 22][]) * [new lektor frontend][] * [vanilla JS rewrite][] * [we can donate through the .onion][] * OKR: make it easier for translators to contribute (almost done! not ambitious enough?) * translators can find their own copy of the website without help * bring build time to 15 minutes to accelerate feedback to translators * allow the web team to trigger manual builds for reviews * OKR: improve documentation across the organization * [launch dev.tpo][] (Q2) * "Remove outdated documentation from the header", stop pointing to dead docs * we have a plan to fix the wiki situation so that people can find and search documentation easily
[milestone 22]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/22 [new lektor frontend]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-static/-/issues/37 [we can donate through the .onion]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-static/-/issues/36 [vanilla JS rewrite]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/donate-static/-/issues/45 [launch dev.tpo]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/dev/-/issues/6
## Progress update
The translation CI work is already going steadily and could be finished in early Q1.
We are probably going to keep prioritizing the donate page changes because if we postpone, it will be more work as updates are still happening on the current site, which means more rebasing to keep things in sync.
## Things that need to happen regardless of the OKRs
We have identified some things that need to happen, regardless of the objectives.
This key result, for example, was part of the "documentation" OKR, but seemed relevant to all teams anyways:
* teams have less than 20 tickets across the three lists (backlog, next, doing), almost zero open (untriaged) tickets
We also need to support those people as part of sponsored work:
* s9 usability - Q1/Q2
* support web maintaince based on the UX feedback
* Work on torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback
* Work on community.torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback
* Work on dev.torproject.org usabilty issues based on user feedback
* phase 6 may bring more TPA work but we need to make the schedule for it with TPA
* s30 - anti-censorship - Q1
* bridges.torproject.org - Q1
* s61 network performance - whole year
* support the work on network simulation
* s96 - china censorship - whole year
* support snowflake scaling
* support rdsys deployment
* support moat distribution
* support HTTP PT creation
* support monitoring bridge health
* support creation and publication of documentation
* support localization
* s123 - USAGM sites - Q1/Q2
* support the project on onion sites deployments
* most of the work will be from February to April/May
* new onion SRE and community person starting in February
Non-web stuff:
* resurrect bridge port scan * do not scan private IP blocks: kez talked with cohosh/meskio to get it fixed, they're okay if kez takes maintainership * make it pretty: done
Some things were postponed altogether:
* decide if we switch to Weblate is postponed to Q3/Q4, as we have funding then
We observed that some of those tasks are already done, so we may need to think more on the longer term. On the other hand, we have a lot of work to be done on the TPA side of things, so no human cycles will be wasted.
# Prioritise the two set of OKRs
Next we looked at the above set of OKRs and the [2022 TPA OKRs][] to see if it was feasible to do *both*.
[2022 TPA OKRs]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022
Clearly, there was too much work, so we're considering ditching an OKR or two on TPA's side. Most web OKRs seem attainable, although some are for Q2 (identified above).
For TPA's OKRs, anarcat's favorites are mail services and retire old services, at least come up with proposals in Q1. lavamind suggested we also prioritize the bullseye upgrades, and noted that we might not want to focus directly on RT as we're unsure of its fate.
We're going to prioritise mail, retirements and upgrades. New cluster and cleanup can still happen, but we're at least pushing that to Q2. We're going to schedule work sessions to work on the mail and upgrades plans, specifically, and we're hoping to have an "upgrade work party" where we jointly work on upgrading a bunch machines at once.
# Other discussions
No other discussion took place.
# Next meeting
TPA mail plan brainstorm, 2022-01-31 15:00 UTC, 16:00 Europe/Stockholm, 10:00 Canada/Eastern