Thierry, I personally prefer the meeting rooms as they are; however, we do need more of them. I am often pinged in various other meetings in the common meeting channels and find the group communication that happens in this way preferable to joining each specific project channel. Joining each specific project channel just to be pinged when desired during a project meeting introduces significant cognitive overhead for me.
I don’t know how others feel. I’d be in favor of increasing the meeting rooms to enable the worldwide membership of OpenStack to better communicate as groups rather than silos and managing the meeting channels proactively. Regards -steve -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> Organization: OpenStack Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Date: Friday, December 2, 2016 at 3:35 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> Subject: [openstack-dev] [all] Creating a new IRC meeting room ? Hi everyone, There has been a bit of tension lately around creating IRC meetings. I've been busy[1] cleaning up unused slots and defragmenting biweekly ones to open up possibilities, but truth is, even with those changes approved, there will still be a number of time slots that are full: Tuesday 14utc -- only biweekly available Tuesday 16utc -- full Wednesday 15utc -- only biweekly available Wednesday 16utc -- full Thursday 14utc -- only biweekly available Thursday 17utc -- only biweekly available [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:dec2016-cleanup Historically, we maintained a limited number of meeting rooms in order to encourage teams to spread around and limit conflicts. This worked for a time, but those days I feel like team members don't have that much flexibility in picking a time that works for everyone. If the miracle slot that works for everyone is not available on the calendar, they tend to move the meeting elsewhere (private IRC channel, Slack, Hangouts) rather than change time to use a less-busy slot. So I'm now wondering how much that artificial scarcity policy is hurting us more than it helps us. I'm still convinced it's very valuable to have a number of "meetings rooms" that you can lurk in and be available for pings, without having to join hundreds of channels where meetings might happen. But I'm not sure anymore that maintaining an artificial scarcity is helpful in limiting conflicts, and I can definitely see that it pushes some meetings away from the meeting channels, defeating their main purpose. TL;DR: - is it time for us to add #openstack-meeting-5 ? - should we more proactively add meeting channels in the future ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev