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Aaron Carlisle Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Werner <stew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > answers are inlined: > > > >> On 28. Aug 2017, at 14:27, Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> 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 > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > -- > - Campbell > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers