Well, in a world where people are driven crazy by all kinds of internal and external work items, it would be definitely difficult to find a time slot that suits everyone.
In a MNE like IBM, we always have this problem. We do a lot of meetings in evenings (before 11:30pm most of the time), and some early morning conference calls. At least, losing all US-based folks is not a good option. Having PTL in the discussion is desirable, certainly. Just two cents from me. Regards, - Qiming On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 03:12:40PM -0400, Zane Bitter wrote: > At the beginning of this year we introduced alternating times for > the Heat weekly IRC meeting, in the hope that our contributors in > Asia would be able to join us. The consensus is that this hasn't > worked out as well as we had hoped - even the new time falls at 8am > in Beijing, so folks are regularly unable to make the meeting. It > also falls at 5pm on the west coast of the US, so folks from there > are also regularly unable to make the meeting too. And of course it > is in the middle of the night for Europe, so the meeting room looks > like a ghost town. > > Since we are in a new development cycle (with the PTL in a different > location) and daylight savings has kicked in/out in many places, > let's review our options. Here are our choices as I see it: > > * Keep going with the current system or some minor tweak to it. > > * Flip the alternate meeting by 12 hours to 1200 UTC. (8pm in China, > late night in Oceania, early-morning on the east coast of the US and > we lose the rest of the US.) > > * Lose all US-based folks and have a meeting for the rest of the > world at around 0700 UTC. (US-based folks include me, so I would > have to ask someone else to take care of passing on > messages-from-the-PTL.) > > * Abandon the alternating meetings altogether. > > What would people prefer? I'd particularly like to hear from folks > based in Asia what times would enable them to regularly attend, > while still ensuring there are other people there to talk to ;) > > thanks, > Zane. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
