Re: [Bf-committers] No Monday or Tuesday meetings for the time being

[Nathan Vegdahl via Bf-committers]

Thanks, Dalai!

That definitely clears things up for me, at least.  I appreciate you taking the 
time to write that up.

--Nathan


On Monday, February 15th, 2021 at 20:40, Dalai Felinto via Bf-committers 
 wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> First let me say that this was poorly communicated on my end. I will try
> to clarify now.
>
> The meetings were not effective as they used to be a few years ago. One
> of the main purposes of the meetings was to review and agree on
> development and design proposals. This was a good moment to engage in
> real-time with everyone involved in Blender development, especially
> across time-zones. The last meetings have seen very low attendance and
> interaction, making the presence of most attendees felt like a formality.
>
> I see this as a reflection of much Blender has grown recently. Dealing
> with the growth of the Blender project while keeping it welcoming and
> accessible is an important challenge, and active efforts are being
> carried out in that regard.
>
> While for time being the general meeting is put on hold, all the other
> activities carry on as usual. The chat channels, this mailing list, they
> are all open, public and more active than ever. All the contributors are
> encouraged to share their roadmaps. The modules are always open to new
> contributors.
>
> What we expect next is two things: First, module teams are to organize
> themselves more independently. They can decide on how often and how to
> carry their public meetings. This is happening weekly already for the
> animation and other modules. I would like this to be implemented for
> other modules as well.
>
> Another thing is, at some moment (I don't know when yet) I would like we
> to have a regular meeting with all the modules where we can schedule
> release targets, assign bigger projects and find out topics related to
> planning Blender as a general. For this, monthly is probably enough. But
> feedback in the format and frequency is welcome.
> Besides, this week Ton will share a post about modules and roles that
> will help draw a picture of how all the modules related with the
> development of Blender.
>
> And as always, informal communication keeps happening on
>
> #blender-coders. I hope this helps clarifying the situation,
>
> -Dalai-

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Re: [Bf-committers] No Monday or Tuesday meetings for the time being

[Nathan Vegdahl via Bf-committers]

Hi Dalai,

> I talked a bit with Ray over chat to try to clear some things out. The main
> issue seemed to be the "how" this change happened/was decided/was
> communicated, not so much the change itself. I will keep that in mind for
> the next disrupted change.

It's great that you were able to talk to Ray directly.  However, I was also 
confused by the decision, as I suspect were many people who remained silent 
simply because Ray had already expressed their confusion and desire for 
clarification.

Would you mind sending another email to this thread with the rationale/goal of 
this change, so that it is visible to everyone following this thread?

(To clarify: I don't mean this as a challenge to the decision itself.  I trust 
you and the rest of the Blender team.  Just some transparency would be 
appreciated, is all.)

--Nathan

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