[RETRO] Green Reviews WG - Q3/4 2024

[nikimanoledaki]

Schema of the retrospective

This tracking issue is used to collect async retro items from anyone involved in the Green Reviews WG in the second half of 2024.

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[locomundo]

KEEP DOING:

• Invite and welcome people to join

• Be very welcoming when people join!

• Talk about Green Reviews in meetups and conferences

• Initiative like this to make it possible to run the pipeline locally so that more people can easily work on it! (in review ATM)

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• Think how new contributors can help, make "good first issue"s and such
• Mob session like we had once was actually pretty successful!
• Pairing was also effective in my experience

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• Contact with other CNCF projects members we know to suggest them to onboard their projects on Green Reviews

• We can use coordinate with the Advocacy WG and use the socials from the TAG to make a call for CNCF projects interested in onboarding

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• (From a conversation we had with the others yesterday): Make the process we use with proposals, tracking issues, implementation issues, etc. more clear.

• Perhaps even make a sort of "onboarding" checklist for anyone who wants to join. What is handy to read, where to start setting up the code for development, etc.

• Publish results from Falco to Falco project contributors regularly so they:

  • get motivated to improve the impact of their software
  • give us feedback on what it is important for them
    (I'm not sure exactly how we can do this, and I know we are busy working on how to store the data, but maybe other people have other related ideas to get the data to our "users" in the meantime.)

• Make a little video on how to set up Green Reviews for developing and publish in socials, might get people interested in contributing and/or using it. (Having suggested this, I also acknowledge that we are all volunteers and there's not that much time when one has to deal with work, family and LIFE!...)

[rossf7]

@locomundo thank you that's a great list. Adding my points

KEEP DOING:

• Invite new members and be welcoming when they join
• Talk about Green Reviews in meetups and conferences

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• Making it easier for contributors to work on code, docs and benchmarks
• Write blog posts about Green Reviews to increase profile and find new contributors

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• Automated tests and code linting to make reviews simpler and faster
• Work with Advocacy WG to find CNCF projects interested in onboarding
• Reduce footprint of cluster by running infra on demand when possible

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• Idea from @catblade once pipeline complete to validate measurements with other tooling like scaphandre [ACTION] Validate energy measurements from the new pipeline #116

[nikimanoledaki]

KEEP DOING:

• Investing our energy into meeting facilitation, including setting agendas, announcing in the WG channel, welcoming members, hosting discussions, note-taking, recording. Also, sharing the load around this by switching hosts and announcing the meeting.

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• It would be great to unblock the project documentation that we left off due to the domain issue! Exporting docs to the TAG ENV website would be great.
• Facilitating technical implementation in-between meetings is a really important area that we should keep investing in
• Mob pairing sessions!

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• Green Reviews WG Hackathon (either official or unofficial) during KubeCon+CloudNativeCon

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