Delivery Group Team (re)Naming Proposals and Discussion
Context
As part of the current reorganization of the Infrastructure Department, the Delivery Group reorganized itself into two different teams, one focused on Deployments and one focused on Releases.
The teams will continue to have a mix of SRE and BE to have a wide variety of skill sets and to continue with an already proven working approach.
Teams
In FY24 Q4, we are working on OKRs with the previous setup. This will change in FY25 Q1. The two teams are setup as below:
Deployments
- @dawsmith - EM
- @nolith - BE
- @rpereira2 - BE
- @skarbek - SRE
- @ggillies - SRE
- @vglafirov - SRE
- @anganga - SRE
Releases
- @mbursi - EM
- @mayra-cabrera - BE
- @sabrams - BE
- @jennykim-gitlab - SRE
- @dat.tang.gitlab - SRE
- @ahyield - SRE
Those teams' names are temporary, and we should aim to find better names.
Goal
Deployments and Releases are names that we should avoid using as we already have two Stage Groups called Deploy and Release
Propose the new team names for the Deployments and Releases teams. To make this a bit more fun, there are two sections below: "Serious Team Names" and "Not-Serious-At-All Team Names". Let's use the latter to list the names of the team you always wanted to work on, but can't
Serious Team Names
Deployments Team Names
| Team Name | Suggested by |
|---|---|
| Releases | @swiskow |
| Rollouts | @swiskow |
| Aqueduct (because this team engineers ways to deliver important resources to our infrastructure) | @sabrams |
| Navigate (because the team navigates packages to their new homes) | @sabrams |
| Deployments | @skarbek |
Releases Team Names
| Team Name | Suggested by |
|---|---|
Feel free to add any extra thoughts on the naming in a comment on this issue. Each team member can propose names for any team; each team will then decide what makes sense to them.
Not-Serious-At-All Team Names
Not-Serious-At-All Deployments Team Names
| Team Name | Suggested by |
|---|---|
| Shipit | @sabrams |
| Allstars (for obvious reasons +1 over @sabrams's reasons) | @skarbek |
Not-Serious-At-All Releases Team Names
| Team Name | Suggested by |
|---|---|
| Tagit | @sabrams |
| Allstars (for obvious reasons) | @sabrams |
| :cat-roomba-exceptionally-fast: | @sabrams |
Timeline
A rough order of tasks and timeframes for completing the team naming:
- 2023-12-22 - Team names proposal is completed and agreed on
- 202X-XX-XX - Team names are reflected on the handbook
Chosen Team Names
Delivery::Relases Delivery::Deployments
Next:
- Create/rename labels
- Review labelled issues
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