Add One Pager for the Release Signal Handbook

[Vyom-Yadav]

What type of PR is this:

/kind documentation

What this PR does / why we need it:

The Release Signal Handbook is quite long. These diagrams in one pager aim to provide a quick overview of the process to simplify things.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #2612

Special notes for your reviewer:

[Vyom-Yadav]

/cc @drewhagen @pacoxu @wendy-ha18
/priority important-soon

These are the initial things that occurred to me. I'm open to adding/removing things to simplify it. Feedback would be appreciated :)

[Vyom-Yadav]

/hold

[Vyom-Yadav]

/assign @justaugustus

[pacoxu]

Nice one-pager!
👍
/lgtm

[wendy-ha18]

Hi @Vyom-Yadav ,

Great effort on this! I initially thought you would create a One Pager similar to the CI Signal One Pager, but I really like the diagram approach you used.

Hope this diagram will be easy to maintain going forward.

I have a few minor suggestions for the diagram. Feel free to review them in this note: One Pager Input. You’re welcome to ignore anything that seems too detailed for the One Pager purpose.

Another point, which might be slightly outside the scope of this PR, before looking at your diagram I have reviewed the Release Path on Release team Handbook (particularly for Release Signal process).

• Perhaps we should consider updating the CI Signal process (monitoring test grid) in Release team Handbook to start earlier at the beginning of the release cycle, and Bug Triage begins a bit later?
• Alternatively, we could integrate or adjust them to better align with Signal Process?

Just some thoughts, hope this helps!

[drewhagen]

Awesome job updating this! What do you use to update these .svgs? I'm curious in case I want to update something myself in the future.

It looks like there is also a table in the release-team doc that uses this .svg that can also be updated. It has links to CI Signal and Bug Triage one pagers. We could probably remove those and link Release Signal to this one :)

[drewhagen]

I agree with @wendy-ha18 - this gets a bit adjacent to your contribution that we're reviewing @Vyom-Yadav, but nonetheless while we're updating the SIG Release README, the CI Signal process should probably be moved sooner in the visual release path. (I think the original thought was that flakes and failures would come out of code development that follows after enhancement freeze? But actually, a lot of tracked flakes, failures and code implementations carry over from past milestones, so test grid observation can begin right away)
It looks like this is mermaid though, so this should be an easy update :)

[drewhagen]

Suggested change

	H --> I["Ask if it's a blocker for upcoming release"]
	H --> I["Ask if it's a blocker for upcoming release cut"]

credit goes to @wendy-ha18 for this feedback. It makes it a bit more clear to focus the ask on the next upcoming cut.

[drewhagen]

I just want to clarify my interpretation: this flowchart is sort of the lifecycle of an individual flake/failure issue, right?

[drewhagen]

Really great job @Vyom-Yadav! I appreciate you putting this together.

I think these diagrams cover the most frequent day to day operations, which will be really helpful for the team to understand.

This also really compliments the full handbook well, that covers all other tasks with more details. The current handbook is also organized into sections well enough that the lead could always guide shadows by sharing anchor links of sections when less common tasks come up.

[drewhagen]

/approve

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