From 76ef59ee021cc87dcadb499e445e369bd61abced Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Heath <luke@fleetdm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:21:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add new engineering rituals (#38136)

---
 handbook/engineering/engineering.rituals.yml | 42 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/handbook/engineering/engineering.rituals.yml b/handbook/engineering/engineering.rituals.yml
index 7d72ea73d2..bd17b29b2f 100644
--- a/handbook/engineering/engineering.rituals.yml
+++ b/handbook/engineering/engineering.rituals.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   frequency: "Weekly"
   description: "Hand off the oncall engineering responsibilities to the next oncall engineer."
   moreInfoUrl: 
-  dri: "lukeheath"
+  dri: "oncall"
 - 
   task: "Vulnerability alerts (fleetdm.com)"
   startedOn: "2023-08-09" 
@@ -57,26 +57,47 @@
   moreInfoUrl: "https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet/security"
   dri: "lukeheath"
 - 
-  task: "Release candidate ritual"
+  task: "Minor version release candidate ritual"
   startedOn: "2023-08-09" 
   frequency: "Triweekly"
   description: "Go through the process of creating a release candidate."
   moreInfoUrl: "https://fleetdm.com/handbook/engineering#create-a-release-candidate"
   dri: "lukeheath"
 - 
-  task: "Release ritual"
+  task: "Minor version release ritual"
   startedOn: "2023-08-09" 
   frequency: "Triweekly"
   description: "Go through the process of releasing the next minor version of Fleet."
   moreInfoUrl: "https://fleetdm.com/handbook/engineering#prepare-fleet-release"
   dri: "lukeheath"
 - 
-  task: "Create patch release branch"
-  startedOn: "2023-08-09" 
-  frequency: "Every patch release"
-  description: "Go through the process of creating a patch release branch, cherry picking commits, and pushing the branch to github.com/fleetdm/fleet."
+  task: "Patch version release candidate ritual"
+  startedOn: "2023-08-19"
+  frequency: "Triweekly"
+  description: "Go through the process of creating a patch release candidate."
+  moreInfoUrl: "https://fleetdm.com/handbook/engineering#create-a-release-candidate"
+  dri: "georgekarrv"
+-
+  task: "Patch version release ritual"
+  startedOn: "2023-08-19"
+  frequency: "Triweekly"
+  description: "Go through the process of releasing the next patch version of Fleet."
   moreInfoUrl: "https://fleetdm.com/handbook/engineering#prepare-fleet-release"
   dri: "lukeheath"
+-
+  task: "Fleetd release candidate ritual"
+  startedOn: "2023-08-19"
+  frequency: "As needed"
+  description: "Go through the process of creating a fleetd release candidate."
+  moreInfoUrl: "https://fleetdm.com/handbook/engineering#create-a-release-candidate"
+  dri: "sharon-fdm"
+-
+  task: "Fleetd release ritual"
+  startedOn: "2023-08-19"
+  frequency: "As needed"
+  description: "Go through the process of releasing the next version of fleetd."
+  moreInfoUrl: "https://fleetdm.com/handbook/engineering#prepare-fleetd-agent-release"
+  dri: "sharon-fdm"
 - 
   task: "QA report"
   startedOn: "2023-08-09" 
@@ -158,5 +179,12 @@
   description: "Review stories that made it into this sprint and stories that didn't make it into this sprint. Ensure stories/bugs have been effectively prioritized across teams." 
   moreInfoUrl: 
   dri: "lukeheath"
+-
+  task: "Release planning project review"
+  startedOn: "2024-03-07" 
+  frequency: "Weekly" 
+  description: "Review the release planning project board to ensure issues are progressing appropriately towards the next release." 
+  moreInfoUrl: "https://github.com/orgs/fleetdm/projects/87"
+  dri: "lukeheath"