Milestone Managing#

This document describes the responsibilities of the milestone manager. The overarching goal/responsibility is to ensure development work on Mitiq goes as smoothly as possible. Below is a breakdown of these responsibilities into a rough timeline of the milestone.

Beginning of milestone#

Create a new milestone on Github and decide what issues go in and time duration, making sure issues are assigned.
Send an email to team and potentially interested people (e.g., people who took issues in the milestone) with a summary of the milestone’s work after the meeting in which it is planned.

During the milestone#

Ensure that any questions on the #mitiq Discord channel are answered.
Triage new issues and PRs opened by community members during the milestone time and assign them as necessary.
Ensure CI passes and open issues/discuss actions if CI is failing.

Community meetings#

Update the Mitiq Meeting Agenda google doc prior to meetings.
Run community meetings.
Take notes during the community meeting in the agenda doc, or appoint a note taker if needed.

End of milestone#

Release the new version (docs)
Prepare text for a social posts and send to ben@unitary.fund, frances@unitary.fund.
Make post on #mitiq Discord channel and #uf-announcements channel