On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM Dumitru Ceara via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/15/26 4:21 PM, Mark Michelson via dev wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > > Hi Mark,
Hi Everyone, I'll preface the rest of the email by saying that I haven't been very active on the ML/irc in the past 6 months due to professional and personal changes in my life, so don't put too much weight on my opinions, I'm just chiming in. > > > 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. I'm in the same boat here in terms of timing, but I also agree that there's probably not a better singular slot. Alternative could be to split the meeting into two slots (one that fits AMER and another that fits APAC/EMEA), but that's a big gamble if attendance is already low. > > > 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. I've set up a bouncer, so even if I'm not able to attend, I can at least catch up on the topics afterwards (not that it helps with the actual attendance problem). > > > 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. I also, personally, tend to miss bi-weekly meetings more often than those that are every week. Additionally, less-frequent meetings seem like a solution to a "there's not enough content to discuss" problem, rather than "low attendance" problem. > > > 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 I hope you'll be able to figure something out. Regards, Martin. > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
