Hi all!

I worked a bit in the wiki in the hope to improve the EPEL SIG workflow and to make the "do more on the lists" and "less in the meetings" a bit easier for everyone.

I created special "tasks" pages for bigger EPEL tasks on our todo-list. For example:

* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Rhel51 We should collect information here what needs to be prepared for the EPEL5 repo to be prepared once EL51 gets shipped. That page doesn't contain much info, but it's a start

* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/RhelMetaData This is a old topic that has seen some process, but not much. Seems different people expect different things from this -- this page hopefully helps to sort that out and realize it afterwards.

As many simple steps are not worth the overhead of a dedicated Wiki page I created http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/Misc to be used to collect small and easy tasks (e.g. those that can be described with a few words and should be realized within one or two weeks) to make sure they are not forgotten.

In addition I even created http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Tasks/LongTerm to make sure some ideas for the long term are not forgotten as well.

Note that *everyone* is allowed and hereby *encouraged* to edit those pages / add new tasks. I hope that way informations are written down there and don't get lost in the noise of a list (which is more often the case then I'd like).

The task owners should keep a close eye on the pages (¹) and make sure they are up2date. I'd be really glad if all owners of the task that have a dedicated page can give a weekly status update on the pages itself -- that way we avoid the "whats the latest status of <foo>" in the meetings and the writer of the weekly report can just include it in the repo, thus everyone knows what up and if tasks are moving.

The schedule page collects the most crucial informations from the different pages and collects them to give a easier overview: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule#Tasks

The topics for a meeting will be written to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/Schedule#TopicsForThisWeek -- but I'll try to send them to the list again more often ahead of the meeting.

Questions? Comments?

CU knurd

(¹) -- hint: subscribe to the page -- or even to all pages below EPEL/Tasks to know where work is being done