Hi,
I'm happy to confirm that at the third day of our sprint more people
joined. Most possibly it is due to the weekend since people did not
took vacation. I admit I'm honestly wondering how we might turn an
online sprint to the same importance as a real life sprint. I mean, if
there would be some real life sprint the usual contributors would have
booked a flight and a hotel room and would be at the venue and have
time. In contrast to this in our online sprint many people who usually
show up confirmed "can't join, no time". So for the next online sprint
we have the challenge to make people aware: "Hey it is sprint and it
would be great if you would behave like beeing inside a hotel somewhere
at the world. By chance this hotel looks like home and you need to care
for the food yourself." (To repeat an old Debian quote: "Home is where
you need to wash the dishes." ;-) )
Yesterday we established short Jitsi meetings every second hour at
odd UTC hours. Everybody is very welcome to join these meetings[1]
at 11:00 / 13:00 / 15:00 / 17:00 / 19:00 (may be 21:00) UTC today
just to say hello is perfectly welcome.
Those who took part actively recovered the usual sprint productivity
which is really great. Thanks a lot to everybody (specifically also
to Tássia who does not consider herself a team member but wanted to
support our sprint - I'd love to see more those contributions from
other Debian people)
Andreas.
[1] https://jitsi.debian.social/DebianMedCovid19
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 09:11:17PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> as yesterday some people were hunting down bugs. This morning we also
> teached a newcomer quite a bit - my hope is Robbi will finalise his
> first package with the end of the sprint.
>
> I personally dived into RC bugs of other teams (Debian Science,
> Debichem) affecting packages in Debian Med. That's a general advise
> also for the time after the sprint: If you want to help Debian Med
> it makes sense to help hunting general RC bugs to keep the freeze
> period as short as possible. The earlier Debian 10 will be released
> the sooner we can have new fun with new packages again. ;-)
>
> Thanks to all who joined and see you tomorrow
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 09:31:35PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > just a short notice about the sprint today. We have established a
> > new communitcation channel:
> >
> > https://app.element.io/#/room/#debian-med:matrix.org
> >
> > Please join us on matrix if you consider instant messaging a sensible
> > enhancement for your workflow.
> >
> > Regarding the sprint itself: I admit I had hoped to more attendees but
> > it seems people do not take one or two days off if the sprint is "only"
> > from home. If you need to book a plane and travel to some place that is
> > different. Those who joined did some valuable contributoins reaching
> > from very generic stuff (Étienne worked on libzstd and now has a
> > changelog entry on every Debian 10 entry installation ;-)) via fixing
> > several cross-build issues (Nilesh) and other things. I for myself
> > concentrated a bit on BioConductor issues and kept on hunting not yet
> > migrated packages.
> >
> > I'd be super happy to see more people tomorrow.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
>
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