At least for the scientific-wg, what we're actually looking for is 4weekly rather than monthly. I'd be surprised if there's a big call for monthly given peoples calendars generally work on a weekly basis for other things...?
Cheers, Blair On 16 November 2016 at 10:40, Tony Breeds <t...@bakeyournoodle.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:10:04PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Blair Bethwaite wrote: >> > On 10 Nov 2016 8:56 PM, "Thierry Carrez" <thie...@openstack.org >> > <mailto:thie...@openstack.org>> wrote: >> >> >> >> The issue with this solution is that any "monthly" slot ends up being >> >> exactly the same as a "weekly" slot: you can't schedule any >> >> weekly/biweekly meetings at the same time and location. Monthly meetings >> >> are therefore paradoxically more wasteful than biweekly meetings, and >> >> there is therefore little point in adding them to the software since you >> >> can emulate them with "weekly" bookings and just skip most meetings. >> > >> > That seems to be based on the assumption that other groups wouldn't want >> > monthly scheduling? >> > >> > Also, I'd suggest we avoid "monthly" altogether and instead use >> > "4weekly", that would seem to allow biweekly meetings to use the same >> > day&time on the alternate (odd/even) week. >> >> 4weekly sounds like a good idea! Less conflicts ftw. >> >> If we really really want monthly stuff, we could create a channel >> dedicated to monthly meetings, to avoid creating conflicts on every >> channels. > > I feel like there'is a tension here that we need to work through > > is yaml2ical a library for others (outside OpenStack) to use? If it is and > *they* want monthly meetings then I really think we shoudl include them. The > conflict deection isn't *that* hard and the need for other recurrence types > would tidy the code. So form this POV I htink we shoudl certainly allow for > this. > > Within OpenStack, we have several groups that want Monthly meetings so we > shoudl work out a way to support that. > > What we do right now is schedule a weekly meeting and then add a description > to > say "we only hold this on thr nth $day" [1] > > We could create a 4weekly which would reduce the wastage. I'm also open to > creating #openstack-meeting-monthly and just moving all the monthly meetings > there. I feel like we get asked for a solution to this often enough that we > need to define an answer. > > Yours Tony. > > [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Documentation_User_Guides_Team_Meeting -- Cheers, ~Blairo _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
