On 9/15/26 4:21 PM, Mark Michelson via dev wrote: > Hi everyone, >
Hi Mark, > There is a weekly meeting on IRC for OVN developers: > https://www.ovn.org/en/#irc-meetings . Recently, we have seen sparse > attendance of this meeting. I brought this up during the OVN > developers' community call on Monday. We didn't have a huge attendance > for that call, so I figured that I would bring this topic up here on > the mailing list. > > What I'm curious about is what changes might we need to make to get > people interested in attending. > Maybe it would help to remind people of its existence on the dev mailing list a few times on Thursdays? I try do that for the OVN A/V technical meeting and I like to think it helps and that I'm not spamming the list for nothing. > Do we need to change the time? It's currently 6:15PM for Western > Europe, and even later if you live farther east. > I'm in the "it's an awkward time for a meeting, around dinner time" camp but OTOH it's already quite early in the morning for people on the west coast of the US. I'm not sure we can ever find a perfect time. > Do we need to move away from IRC? I personally open IRC once per week > to attend this meeting but don't use it for anything else. Would a > different medium work better? > Occasionally I see some people trying to ask OVN related questions on the Libera IRC channel (logs: https://libera.catirclogs.org/openvswitch/2026-09-11). However, me too, I usually only log into that IRC instance for the OVN meeting and that's it. > Do we need to have it less frequently? We have the meeting weekly, but > maybe changing to every two weeks would make more sense? > FTR, I'm not against this but I wonder if it wouldn't actually reduce attendance even further because people would have to remember whether it's an odd or even week. > Do we need to change the format of the meeting? Currently, it works > sort of like a scrum "stand-up" meeting, with everyone giving updates > about what they're working on, and further discussions spinning off > from there. Maybe something else would be better? > I think this depends whether we'll have other people joining. For now, when people do join, it's usually established community members and the scrum stand-up-like method seems OK to me. Just noting though, the format is not that strict, we do have "random" open discussions every now and then. > Let me know what you think, and if we get something resembling a > consensus, we can make some changes. > > Thanks, > Mark Michelson > Thanks for bringing this up, Mark! Personally I'd love to see more attendance in any of the community meetings. Regards, Dumitru _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
