On 16/01/13 17:20, Sergio Fernández wrote:
Hi,
On 16/01/13 18:03, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya wrote:
IMHO, in Apache email and irc are considered as preferred mediums of
communications. The main reason for that is the developer and user
community are scattered a lot geographically and as they are on volunteer
based might not be able to commit to fixed timing like this. However,
I see
that for people in Salzburg Research this might be the most efficient way
to move forward. However, in the long run when the community grows with
developers and users outside Salzburg Research, this won't be a
sustainable
way to move forward.
We started with these sprints for the following two weeks in order to
achieve the release of LMF 2.4 before proceeding with the importation
into the ASF infrastructure. The idea is to push to get such important
milestone asap.
One suggestion would be to drop an email to the list of anything
important
mentioned in the meeting (I don't thing there is need to send a daily
update to the list each day as progress of the issues will be tracked in
JIRA). It is important that all the discussions regarding the development
happens in the mailing list as much as possible so that they are archived
and available for any user / developer later on. It also gives the chance
to anyone interested to jump in and express their opinion.
Anyway, any important decision or discussion in such daily meetings will
be shared using the common communication tools (mainly mailing list or
jira), right, that was always in our minds.
I just want to agree strongly with Nandana.
This can be a significant change in culture and not always an easy one
but in order to attract new people it is very important.
Think of it as the only place "decisions" happen is email or JIRA. Even
irc is a bit suspect as it is not timezone independent. Obviously
discussions happen, nothing against that, and they inform the decision
making in the usual places.
Andy
Thanks for your comments.
Cheers,
