> On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen <phil...@phillip.io> wrote: > > Great, glad there's interest. > > How would Thursday at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC work? This is > early enough for London to join, but not too early that California > won't. Friday mornings are less desirable (because that's Friday > evening in London) but Monday and Tuesday morning could work as well.
I can't do 1300-1500 America/New_York on Thursdays. Pretty much any other time in the week would work. Maybe shoot for Tuesdays? > >> I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-available "office >> hours" that people could use to get help on patches, debugging, >> whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a time. > > +1. Individual office hours are a great idea in their own right. > >> perhaps to start with >> we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss this >> kind of thing on the list? > > Sure, I'll start a wiki page so it could be sent to non-list-readers. > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Sean Farley <s...@farley.io> wrote: >> >> Durham Goode <dur...@fb.com> writes: >> >>> On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +0000, Phil Cohen wrote: >>>>> Many of us enjoy the fast-paced collaboration that happens during >>>>> Mercurial's sprints. Alas, they only happen twice a year. In the interim, >>>>> many of us have used ad-hoc videoconferencing to whiteboard ideas ahead >>>>> of code review, and this has worked pretty well. It'd be great to do even >>>>> more here. >>>>> >>>>> One thing that was suggested in the last group get-together was to >>>>> establish a regular time for community members to “hang out” on VC if >>>>> they're available, and discuss any technical topics or proposals that >>>>> come up. The goal is for this to be informal, replicating the sprint >>>>> atmosphere as much as possible, so there'd be no need for a strict agenda >>>>> (though we could create one if there's sufficient demand for topics). If >>>>> nobody ends up wanting to talk about anything (a remote scenario, perhaps >>>>> :) we can always end early. >>>>> >>>>> These video chat sessions should hopefully fill a niche that's poorly >>>>> satisfied by IRC or e-mail today: discussing topics in-depth at high >>>>> bandwidth before patches hit the mailing list. >>>>> >>>>> Does this sound like something people would want to participate in? If >>>>> so, we should hash out a good time (spitballing: Friday mornings? One >>>>> problem is between US, Europe, and Japan, you can only ever pick >>>>> satisfactory times for two of the three), frequency (fortnightly?), and >>>>> videochat platform (Augie and I have used >>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__appear.in&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A&m=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A&s=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU&e= >>>>> before and it seems to work well). >>>> >>>> I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-available "office >>>> hours" that people could use to get help on patches, debugging, >>>> whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a time. >>>> >>>> Also happy to just casually hang out on VC once every couple of weeks. >>> >>> I'm all for it. I think it would help keep things unblocked and the >>> sprint discussions tend to motivate people so perhaps regular >>> discussions would help keep the motivation flowing. >>> >>> We have plenty of topics going around these days: >>> >>> - phabricator >>> - sparse >>> - obsstore >>> - upstreaming other extensions >>> >>> to name a few >> >> I, too, am all for it. If for nothing else than to help convey tone / >> feeling which text cannot do. >> >> I'd be up for helping to get this going as well; perhaps to start with >> we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss this >> kind of thing on the list? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mercurial-devel mailing list >> Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org >> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel >> _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
