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[David Zinman <david.zinman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Announcing an update to the process to handle projects for the
Infrastructure team from external stakeholders.

The Infrastructure team gathers work from suggestions from other
Linaro teams who require new or improved tools and infrastructure in
order to accomplish something, or achieve better results. Although not
necessarily tied to a specific release cycle, the work that the team
does is crucial for organisational operation and will be tracked
through the same mechanism that the development platform teams
use, namely Launchpad.

This planning process aims to have the following qualities:
 * A well defined process for requesting that the Infrastructure team
do something for you. It may be that you have a great idea for
something that would make your team a lot more productive, but you
don't have time to work on it as you have milestones to deliver things
for. With this process you know exactly how to ask that the
Infrastructure team build that tool for you, as that is what we are
here for.
 * Predictability - we want to ensure that you know exactly what
Infrastructure plans to do for you, and when you can expect to see the
results. Without this it is harder to plan your own work, as you do
not know when to expect something from us, or if we will get to it at
all.
 * A way of tracking the project. Sponsors of Infrastructure projects
will be able to see the ongoing status in the same way as other Linaro
projects. Any changes to the project will be reported to the required
stakeholders by email.
 * We wish to also be able to take on work that comes from ideas at
any time. We don't want you to have to wait for a Linaro Connect in
order to make the request, and if it is a small thing we would like to
be able to start work on it sooner than that as well.

A stakeholder for infrastructure projects should contact the
Infrastructure leads (danilo/asac/dzin) and discuss the requirements
for the work that is needed. The Infrastructure lead will work with the
stakeholder to estimate the time it will take, and make it work within
the time frame that suits your development cycle.

In order to request a project please email the request to your
stakeholder representative. The information that you are asked to
provide is:

 *   A summary of the project
 *   Approval contacts
 *   Acceptance criteria
 *   What benefit the project will bring to Linaro
 *   Who the stakeholders are
 *   Any deadlines that would apply (releases, etc., anything else is
     considered to be ASAP)
 *   How long you estimate the work would take (don't worry too much
     about being exact, we just want your idea of how much work is
     involved)
 *   Who the contact for the work should be

Infrastructure Contacts:
  Lead: Danilo Segan - danilos, danilo.segan@xxxxxxxxxx
  Project Manager: David Zinman - dzin, david.zinman@xxxxxxxxxx
  Techinal Director: Alexander Sack - asac, asac@xxxxxxxxxx

For more information please see:
 https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/InfrastructurePlanningProcess

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David Zinman
Linaro Release Manager | Project Manager
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