Note, also, someone pointed out to me that JIRA might already have what we need without adding more infrastructure.
In some regards, I think ideas along these lines are almost like social unit tests for PMCs/committers. That is, what automated mechanisms can we have that _help_ PMCs do their jobs better in the least intrusive way possible and give feedback on a regular basis when things could be better. On May 20, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 20/05/2011 12:02, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >> Great idea. >> >> But why not having a Calendar for all projects. One might be able to >> filter for a specific project or event type, be it "release", "dinner" >> or whatever. Other events would become a better visibility, like >> Apache CON or a retreat > > I think this would be really good. However, I don't think we need to dictate > where projects keep their calendar stuff. The starting point is for projects > to select a solution that suits them and make us aware of an iCAL feed. > > ComDev can then create a calendar that imports these various feeds. Moving > forwards we might provide a funky front end that allows feeds of certain > types to be aggregated into a personal feed - but lets not get ahead of > ourselves ;-) > > So who is going to create the comdev feed and add Grants Lucene feed as a > first one. I know ComDev have discussed having a calendar of events in the > past, if we provide some visibility for it maybe we can actually make it > worthwhile. > > Ross > > > >> >> Christian >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Grant Ingersoll<gsing...@apache.org> >> wrote: >>> I'm curious, do any projects have shared calendars? For instance, the >>> thought occurred to me that I might put up a Google Calendar for Lucene or >>> Mahout that is public read-only, but committers have write control on it. >>> On the calendar, we could put things like potential release dates, >>> reminders for PMC actions (such as review potential committers or do board >>> reports). Community members could submit "patches" for community related >>> events such as conferences, meetups, hackathons, etc. >>> >>> -Grant >> >> >> > > > -- > rgard...@apache.org > @rgardler
