I think it's worth raising the topic of whether to continue regularly-scheduled meetings. Given the distributed community, it is difficult to find a time that routinely works for everyone. Eliminating this might also encourage more frequent use of the mailing list when discussion topics arise, which I think would be better for everyone.
On Monday, February 29, 2016, Zameer Manji <zma...@apache.org> wrote: > I agree with Maxim, a weekly meeting is too frequent relative to the > current activity on the project. I think changing it to bi-weekly schedule > would be better overall. > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Joshua Cohen <jco...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > I'm in the activated list of freenode-cloaks, but I'm not able to start > > meetings. > > > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > A registered nick and ASF cloak are required in order to kick off > > meetings > > > with asfbot, registration requests can be made at [1]. Currently for > > Aurora > > > dlester, jfarrell, kts, wfarner , and zmanji are the only ones who > > > are registered and setup to start the meetings > > > > > > -Jake > > > > > > > > > [1]: > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/docs/freenode-cloaks.txt > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Joshua Cohen <jco...@apache.org > <javascript:;>> > > wrote: > > > > > > > I agree that it's unfortunate we've missed a few meetings. > Historically > > > > speaking it's always been one of a few people who kick the meeting > off, > > > and > > > > if those folks aren't available the meetings seem to not happen. That > > > said, > > > > I think we should take a more decentralized approach. We don't need > to > > > rely > > > > on anyone in particular being around to kick the meeting off. Anyone > > > who's > > > > around at the scheduled time should feel free to start it. If you > don't > > > > have the karma necessary to get the bot to work, that's fine, just > send > > > out > > > > manual notes. > > > > > > > > That said, Jake, any idea what we need to do to ensure committers (or > > > maybe > > > > just PMC members, whatever) have the necessary ASFBot karma? > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Erb, Stephan < > > > > stephan....@blue-yonder.com <javascript:;>> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > > > seems like we have been sloppy with the community meeting in the > last > > > > > weeks. It doesn't feel right to have a regular meeting that is > > skipped > > > > > silently. > > > > > > > > > > Any thoughts or ideas what we could do about that? > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Zameer Manji > > > > >
