Internal-facing infrastructure announcements

For significant internal facing infrastructure changes or updates, the Infrastructure Team can announce that change in the infrastructure announcement Zulip channel #t-infra/announcements. Please keep in mind that we would like to keep that channel to be low traffic and have a high signal-to-noise ratio.

By internal facing, we mean infrastructure that primarily is used by or only impacts project team members and other specific project-internal users (such as Dev Desktop users).

Syncing membership before posting an infra announcement

Currently, since #t-infra/announcements is not managed through the team repo as it is a public Zulip stream, an infra team member looking to post an infra announcement should first manually resync the following Zulip groups to the stream:

• T-all (all project team members)
• gsoc-contributors, since they have access to Dev Desktops.
• ospp-contributors, likewise.
• cloud-compute-users, likewise.
• T-program, likewise.

This can be done in Zulip through:

Channel Settings > t-infra/announcements > Subscribers > Add subscribers

Note that Zulip admin privileges are needed to perform this action.

Announcement pinging etiquette

Except for crucial announcements affecting all project members, avoid general T-all Zulip group pings. T-all members will already be subscribed to the announcement channel unless they explicitly leave.

Prefer either:

• Just making an announcement topic, without explicitly pinging all project members, or
• Only use targeted pings for specific project teams when only specific project teams are affected.