User:Reception123/SRE policies

THIS IS A DRAFT In order to efficiently conduct its duties, the Site Reliability Engineering Team maintains a number of internal policies. This page lists all these policies, explains how new policies are adopted or modified. It is important to note that SRE guidelines or guides may also exist but these are not considered to be official policies. As a general rule, all SRE members are under an obligation to read, be aware of, respect and follow all policies relevant to their area.

List of all SRE policies
All internal policies adopted by SRE are listed here. Before being appointed to a role in the SRE team, a user must certify that they have read and understood the policies relevant to their area.

Initiation
Anyone is free to suggest the adoption of an internal policy pertaining to SRE to SRE Management. If Engineering Managers consider such a policy necessary, they will undertake to create a draft policy. This may also be done by an Engineering Manager or SRE member independently of an outside suggestion.

Discussion
Once a draft policy proposal is ready, it should be sent to all SRE volunteers in order for them to review it and provide feedback, suggestions or express any disagreements. If it contains elements of interest to the community, the community may also be invited to give feedback on the SRE noticeboard.

Adoption
After time has been given for feedback, comments or expressions of disagreement, the SRE Management team may adopt the new policy if there is consensus for doing so.

Modifications / reviews
It is acknowledged that after a policy is adopted, there may be changes to how things operate that would also require modifying a policy. These can be done by any SRE member as long as they make their Engineering Manager aware and that the change does not radically change the policy.

All policies should be reviewed by SRE Management every six months to make sure that they are still up to date and being followed.

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Site Reliability Engineering Management
The Site Reliability Engineering Management is formed of the two Engineering Managers for each team. They are individually responsible for their teams but also have common responsibility (i.e. appointing new SRE members regardless of team, budget proposals, adopting new SRE policies, etc). Both Engineering Managers are appointed by the Board.