> -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Brockmeier [mailto:j...@zonker.net] > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:52 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [ASFCS40] IRC Meeting for Release Tasks? > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:35:51PM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > > I think this is an excellent idea and hope it continues just as a > > weekly meeting for the project just for folks to give status on > > things. > > A couple of comments though: > > > > * I assume since you are proposing this you are willing to act as > > moderator, and make sure these meetings get announced, logged, and > > summary and minutes get posted here. Perhaps we can even get meetbot > > [1] or some analogue up and running to automate this at some point. > > Absolutely. And once we get agreement on time, I'll also put together a > tentative agenda (suggestions welcome) as well. > > > * If a lot of people aren't used to the multi-threaded, async method > > that well attended IRC meetings take perhaps it is a good idea to > > adopt some protocol - IRC meetings can be wonderful if you are used to > > them, and bewildering if you are new to them, esp if there are a lot > > of people present and talking. At the same time, you don't want to > > burden the meeting with too much formality, so perhaps it's a wait and > > implement if there are problems. Off the top of my head this is a > > relatively common one that a number of projects have used [2] > > For now, I think that a wait-and-see approach is probably best. If we find > meetings getting chaotic, then we might want to use the approach from the > Fedora wiki. (In my experience, even some of the Fedora meetings don't > follow the formal approach.) >
Absolutely agree on doing IRC on the release. Will be a welcomed change to mailing lists. --Alex
