Backlog Review Process for OSCAL‐related Repositories

Backlog Review Process for OSCAL-related Repositories

The following process serves as guidance to the OSCAL team members tasked with reviewing the backlog for issues related to all OSCAL repositories. The process will be repeated periodically.

Steps

1. All open issues will be reviewed.
2. During the review all issues older then 6 months will be labeled as Aged.
3. All issues not labeled Aged will be processed on the triage board based on the priorities and the work assigned for each sprint.
4. All Aged issues will be processed as follows:

• Low priority, Aged issues for which time will not be allocated to address them, will be marked with the label closeable.
• Aged issues scheduled to be reviewed on the next triage will be marked with the label question.
• Reviewed issues marked with Aged+ question for which time will be allocated will have the labels removed.
• Any reviewed issue marked with Aged + question for which time is not allocated for more than 6 months will be marked with the label closeable.
• All Aged + closeable issues are closed each month.
• If a closed issue is later determined to be a priority, then the issue will be re-opened.
• Once the review is complete issues opened since the Aged mark and any issues unlabeled as Aged will be evaluated.
• We will need to evaluate issues opened since the Aged mark, plus any issues unlabeled as Aged.

NOTE: issues marked closeable are not closed immediately so the community members can provide their input.