Stacks Core Eng Development Process Effective as of 2023 07 10

Starting the week of 7/10, will.btc from the Stacks Foundation will be managing two key Project Management processes for all work related to Stacks Core Eng (a unifying term for the Blockchain, sBTC, and Testing Working Groups).

Specifically:

• Stacks Core Eng Project Board (stacks-network) GitHub
• 2-week Sprints

Teams, Defined:

• Stacks & Bitcoin Builders
• BL2 Core Eng = Bitcoin L2 Labs
• Hiro Core Eng = Hiro Systems
• TM Core Eng = Trust Machines
• SF Core Eng = Stacks Foundation
• Stacks Core Eng = All Engs building the Stacks Blockchain

Typical Sprint: Meetings below will replace sBTC WG (Mon and Fri), Blockchain WG (Tues), and Blockchain architecture (Fri) calls.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		Sprint A: Planning (10am - 11am EST)		Architecture* (10am - 11am EST)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		Open Builder** (10am - 11am EST)		Architecture* (10am - 11am EST)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Sprint A: Review + Retro (10am - 11am EST)	Sprint B: Planning (10am - 11am EST)			Architecture* (10am - 11am EST)

*Optional meeting for deeper Stacks Core Eng discussions **Optional meeting for Stacks Core Eng discussions and updates on Critical Bounties

Please note: Feedback is highly encouraged. will.btc is committed to facilitating a valuable, productive process and making sure you all have an amazing developer experience as members of the Stacks / Bitcoin Dev community.

email: will@stacks.org
github: will-at-stacks
discord: will.btc
twitter: @corcoranwill