2020 Community Process Input

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Inputs and Comments

From @Eric Debeau

Hello

For the priorities, I would put as top priorities:

• Release Manager

• Rel-Eng / Sys-Admin

• Infrastructure Requests : Scale Jenkins, Nexus based on instability issues- Additional VMs to scale as we need (swag  growth of 5 servers)

• Infrastructure Requests : New CI/CD environment (JIRA TSC-25)

• DDF

• End User Training

I do not understand why we need opex for

Cdt

Eric

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From @Timo Perala

Hello TSC,

I would like to support Eric’s list for top priority topics:

-          Release Manager

-          Rel-Eng / Sys-Admin

-          Infrastructure Requests : Scale Jenkins, Nexus based on instability issues- Additional VMs to scale as we need (swag  growth of 5 servers)

-          Infrastructure Requests : New CI/CD environment (JIRA TSC-25)

-          DDF

These would nicely contribute to what IMHO would be important for ONAP success: staff support, adequate infra, building community.

I also like Jason’s idea of potentially using the same priority for multiple entries. Or any other way to convey message that these are “non-negotiable” for us.

For community building one could add also End User Training, Documentation, Community Awards & Recognition, Community Discretionary Funding, or any subset of those. But I would attempt to keep the top list short(ish).

cheers

Timo

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From @djhunt

Chaker & TSC,

Thanks for coordinating the input from the team.  Some of my comments below:

- Agree with the general prioritization. If we are forced to put things in priority order (second column in the wiki), I would put certain items at the same priority.  For example, I think hosting, hardware, and IT Modernization are really one item from a prioritization effort, just that the budget may be allocated differently across those items.

- For DDFs/Plugfests, assuming same # as last year.  It listed 3 major events, but don't we really only have 2?

- Internships are a nice to have (not high priority, but I'm sure we could find good use for them)

- The TAC discretionary funding was to give projects some funds that they can use without additional board approval.  I believe this was $25K per TAC project last year.  Looking at latest finance actuals, I see $66K allocated across all projects for 2019 with none spent.  So, two points here:  1) if there is anything in 2019 that we think we need to spend discretionary funds on, let's get that on the table now, 2) we should re-request this for 2020, but try to have in mind where we would spend.  

- For community recognition ("Developer Awards and SWAG"), we should request this again.  I don't see much spent in this category for 2019 either.  Kenny, have we given any awards yet or have plans to this year?

Thanks!

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From @Lingli Deng

Hi

I would like to add an image site in Mainland China or Hong Kong as one of the top priorities.

Thanks,
Lingli

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From @cl664y@att.com

I believe that our Top 3 priorities will remain

• Fund 1 Full-Time Release Manager

These two items below were originally submitted for $30K and got finally extended  – we definitively need more funding

• Invest into our CI/CD Infrastructure (recurrent $8-10K per month)

• Invest into our Testing Infrastructure

I know we have also a gap related to our Documentation although a lot of adding values have been provided by Eric and his team, Andreas, Thomas etc.

I will let you decide about the need (or not) of a technical writer).

No internship program was setup this year.

I also recommend to allocate some budget to recognize our ONAP team members, with a higher focus on the testers and anybody who will increase our test automation as we have currently a gap in this domain

I highly recommend to request $25K discretionary funding.

Jason – it is unclear what was the 2019 TAC budget therefore I can not really provide any input.

Let me know if you have any question.

Thanks in advance for all your support while I am away J

Many thanks and regards

Catherine

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