Prepare Q2 2023 Engineering goals

[damianavila]

Context

Let's agree and prepare/refine the goals we want to pursue in Q2.
And let's make that plan happen before Q2 starts!!

Proposal

I have signaled a few proto-Q2 goals in #2122 (and previous goal issues).

• Monitoring and alerts: Q4 2022 Goal: Monitoring & alerting for our infrastructure #1804 (comment) (1)
• Billing: Q4 2022 Goal: Billing #1853 (comment) (2)
• Dynamic image building: Overview of technical work planned for the GESIS collaboration #2120 (3)

That is essentially a mix of making our infra more robust (1), recovering back some money (2), and building something new (3).

I am open to discussing and bringing up other things, but I think we need to collectively focus on more concrete goals. These topics are already big ones, so I am proposing to aim for small improvements on each of those topics! And those concrete small steps should be well specified before we enter the next quarter.

cc @2i2c-org/engineering so we start dropping ideas!!

Updates and actions

For the Q2 goals definition, we followed the process outlined in 2i2c-org/team-compass#697.

Our notes about this process live in the Prod and Eng meeting notes:

• 21/3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUO2USQlRbcjOEkjlCu1gyTaPBZmGZSRF4L-_9xecmA/edit#heading=h.n1c8g3lu1cuy
• 28/3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUO2USQlRbcjOEkjlCu1gyTaPBZmGZSRF4L-_9xecmA/edit#heading=h.ycnyhh6g1ri6
• 4/3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUO2USQlRbcjOEkjlCu1gyTaPBZmGZSRF4L-_9xecmA/edit#heading=h.xtkt0wlnotkd

[damianavila]

Monitoring and alert

Non-paging ticket alerts (idea from @pnasrat): #2288 (comment) and slack discussion: https://2i2c.slack.com/archives/C01GLCC1VCN/p1677759173803229?thread_ts=1677746693.014559&cid=C01GLCC1VCN.

[consideRatio]

@damianavila I opened #2293 as a goal proposal for Q2.

I also think it would be very valuable if we could make node sharing a default and help hubs transition towards it, but I'd like to not outline that in more detail right now, but its represented by #2121.

[choldgraf]

@damianavila I believe that this process is now complete, so I'm going to close the issue. Let me know if you wanted to keep it open throughout the sprint or something, but I believe that these goals are now incorporated into the strategic objectives board: https://github.com/orgs/2i2c-org/projects/34/views/7

[damianavila]

I also have captured our Eng goals in the Eng board: https://github.com/orgs/2i2c-org/projects/22/views/50.
And for the record, all the planning around Q2 goals lives in the following document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUO2USQlRbcjOEkjlCu1gyTaPBZmGZSRF4L-_9xecmA/edit#heading=h.ycnyhh6g1ri6