On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > answers are inlined: > >> On 28. Aug 2017, at 14:27, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Proposal: alternate Monday meetings to be 10:00 and 18:00 Amsterdam time. >> Drop the Sunday meetings. > > I like the alternating time idea, that should allow people from more time > zones to participate. > Picking a right day is hard though - weekdays are good paid contributors, > weekends better for volunteers. > >> 1) Forums: (discourse) >> https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories >> <https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories> > > Some kind of developer focussed forum is helpful, I would think. Right now, > we’re abusing the bug tracker > as forum: https://developer.blender.org/T46258 > <https://developer.blender.org/T46258>
This looks like proper tracker use to me, focused design tasks for planning is fine. There are a few times I've seen people try and use tracker more like a forum for asking questions or submitting a patch which is really a question about code. I don't think its much of a problem. Even so, could be nice to try out a forum for developers. > Discussions like this don’t work at all on IRC and not very well in mailing > lists. > >> 2) Weekly activity log >> https://this-week-in-rust.org/ <https://this-week-in-rust.org/> > > Helpful, we should do that. While it would be nice, are people interested to write/manage this? Maybe best to do a trial-run for ~5 weeks or so, continue if it's working out. >> 4) No mailing lists! >> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2015-January/011558.html >> >> Now I don't think we need to drop mailing lists, but the forums and activity >> log sound great. >> Discourse also might help making our onboarding process better. > > If we use a web based forum, please let’s pick one that works well on mobile > devices > (including the ones that are not the latest and greatest) and sends > server-side generated > static HTML. Responding to email on a smartphone is quick and easy and works > even when > you have a terrible connection. “Modern” HTML pages sometimes require several > MB > just to display essentially a couple of paragraphs of text. > > For example, one of the forums I visit sometimes runs on nodeBB. Just the > forum start page > comes in at 1.17MB. That’s ridiculous and I pretty much never read it on my > phone. BA, even > with the features images, is only half as big, simple phpBB sites come in at > 300kB. Plain text > contents of these pages is just a few kB, the rest is mostly decoration and > oh-so-useful features > nobody uses. > > I know, we need to have fast connections to begin with (wouldn’t want to git > clone over GPRS) > but I like to make my time on the road useful too. From here to BConf is > roughly 7 hours on a train > that promises WIFI but doesn’t always deliver. Don’t want to let that time go > to waste. > Did you look into https://try.discourse.org ? > -Stefan > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
