Technical FAQs

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Working Group Communication and Workflow

How to run a meeting:

Use the meeting template off the wiki for each new meeting agenda
The OMF public calendar is where the meetings are published. Verify the meeting information there is correct.
Publish the meeting agenda to the mailing list at least one day before the meeting
As each meeting is starting ask for one person to takes notes and ask the rest to add their names to the attendance section of the wiki page
After each meeting, the chair updates next meeting date on the top of the wiki page

Working Group Leadership:

Each WG is administered by a WG Steering Committee (“WGSC”)
The WG Steering Committee members can be an employee or representative of a Member of the Foundation, must be nominated by the Member who employs or engages them, and serve subject to the consent of that Member.
WGSC shall elect one or two chairs from among its members, who serve at the pleasure of the WGSC members
WGSC composed of five Contributors
WGSC is responsible for assigning maintainer and reviewer roles to Contributors of the WG, and determining the status of Deliverables.

How to run the working group day to day:

The release announcements and process schedule will be communicated via mds-announce
Deliverables from a WG are developed by its Contributors
Maintainers review and approval of contributions
Contributors fork the repository, make their PR on the OMF repository
Chairs and maintainers triage the backlog of issues and PRs
Pull requests and release notes should include a summary of the major changes / impacts associated with the change or release
Proposed changes should come in the form of PRs to give the community ample awareness and time for feedback
Monthly, the chair publishes the coming month meeting schedule

Review the project backlog for unassigned issues and PRs
It should be obvious in most cases which API and change type the item should be assigned
Allow the working group chairs to assign items to a milestone