On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 14:29 +0200, David Tardon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:16:30AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 21:17 +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > > > > Could I suggest that, if FESCo is going to have a different chair each > > week, you at least have an SOP for arranging the meetings, so that this > > kind of thing is done consistently? > > > > Just in the last two weeks we've had a FESCo meeting announcement with > > an empty topic, and now a minutes post with a different subject from all > > the previous minutes posts (the 'standard' appears to be "Summary & > > minutes for today's FESCo meeting (XXXX-XX-XX)") and with no text but an > > *attachment* of the meetbot summary. > > Sorry, but I really do not understand your problem. I have never had a > problem recognizing the "meeting notes" email. The same for parsing its > content. (Actually, I haven't even noticed that the subject is not > always the same...) > > If it is really so important that the structure of that email is always > the same, without a sligthest variation, it should be sent directly by > the bot, without any human intervention. Period.
If I want to quickly look through the results of all the FESCo meetings, I just search for some word which should always show up in the topic of those mails but rarely shows up in the topic of other mails. If there's no process for sending the mail, I've no guarantee or reasonable expectation I'll actually *find* all the mails this way. It's not about 'slightest variation(s)'. Remember one of the cases I cited was that an announce got sent with no topic *at all*. How's anyone ever going to find that one again? Doing everything by bot is not always possible, if you want the summary to have some kind of vaguely intelligent hand-editing. But if all you do is copy/paste the bot summary, then sure, it would make sense just to automate the process. Less chance of mistakes, saves everyone time. > Or do we really need a policy/process/guideline for _everything_? I tend to find it's a good idea. It has lots of benefits and virtually no drawbacks, except that someone has to find time to write it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
