Re: Community video chats?
Yep, I'll attend. On 7/15/17 11:02 PM, Phillip Cohen wrote: I'll be on PTO in the mountains then (and I think Durham is in London, but he might still be able to attend), but I hope it goes well (and hopefully somebody takes notes :). On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Boris Feldwrote: I've put a reminder in my calendar for 19pm paris time. On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 20:00 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: Yes, that's right. On Jul 14, 2017 7:40 PM, "Sean Farley" wrote: Augie Fackler writes: On Jul 13, 2017, at 04:17, Boris Feld wrote: On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen 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 also interested, 6pm UTC (5pm or 7pm could works too) on every day except Tuesdays would works for me with a preference for Thursday. I've blocked off 1300-1430 America/New_York on the 19th for a test run of this. That's 10am-11:30am for us in San Francisco, right? If so, then I've also put this in my calendar. ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mercurial-2Dscm.org_mailman_listinfo_mercurial-2Ddevel=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A=N9nEb_0zJwOjAlQrnQ2UvU_XmsRXCwQxbcVKXOxv0kY=CQDg7IFNYr5XEOubKwm8xnbUEGJRcaffQFB1EaGeJHM= ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mercurial-2Dscm.org_mailman_listinfo_mercurial-2Ddevel=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A=N9nEb_0zJwOjAlQrnQ2UvU_XmsRXCwQxbcVKXOxv0kY=CQDg7IFNYr5XEOubKwm8xnbUEGJRcaffQFB1EaGeJHM= ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
Re: Community video chats?
I'll be on PTO in the mountains then (and I think Durham is in London, but he might still be able to attend), but I hope it goes well (and hopefully somebody takes notes :). On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Boris Feldwrote: > I've put a reminder in my calendar for 19pm paris time. > > On Fri, 2017-07-14 at 20:00 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: > > Yes, that's right. > > On Jul 14, 2017 7:40 PM, "Sean Farley" wrote: > > > Augie Fackler writes: > >>> On Jul 13, 2017, at 04:17, Boris Feld wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: > On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen > 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 also interested, 6pm UTC (5pm or 7pm could works too) on every day >>> except Tuesdays would works for me with a preference for Thursday. >> >> I've blocked off 1300-1430 America/New_York on the 19th for a test run of >> this. > > That's 10am-11:30am for us in San Francisco, right? If so, then I've > also put this in my calendar. > > > ___ > 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
Re: Community video chats?
Yes, that's right. On Jul 14, 2017 7:40 PM, "Sean Farley"wrote: > > Augie Fackler writes: > > >> On Jul 13, 2017, at 04:17, Boris Feld wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: > On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen > 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 also interested, 6pm UTC (5pm or 7pm could works too) on every day > >> except Tuesdays would works for me with a preference for Thursday. > > > > I've blocked off 1300-1430 America/New_York on the 19th for a test run > of this. > > That's 10am-11:30am for us in San Francisco, right? If so, then I've > also put this in my calendar. > ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
Re: Community video chats?
Augie Facklerwrites: >> On Jul 13, 2017, at 04:17, Boris Feld wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen 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 also interested, 6pm UTC (5pm or 7pm could works too) on every day >> except Tuesdays would works for me with a preference for Thursday. > > I've blocked off 1300-1430 America/New_York on the 19th for a test run of > this. That's 10am-11:30am for us in San Francisco, right? If so, then I've also put this in my calendar. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
Re: Community video chats?
On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 16:08 -0400, Augie Fackler wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohen> > 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 also interested, 6pm UTC (5pm or 7pm could works too) on every day except Tuesdays would works for me with a preference for Thursday. > > > > > 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 > > wrote: > > > > > > Durham Goode writes: > > > > > > > On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +, 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://urldefens > > > > > > e.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http- > > > > > > 3A__appear.in=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1 > > > > > > wi1T9iURRCj1A=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl- > > > > > > 2A=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU= 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 >
Re: Community video chats?
> On Jul 11, 2017, at 15:47, Phillip Cohenwrote: > > 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 wrote: >> >> Durham Goode writes: >> >>> On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +, 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=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU= > 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
Re: Community video chats?
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'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 Farleywrote: > > Durham Goode writes: > >> On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +, 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=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU= 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
Re: Community video chats?
Durham Goodewrites: > On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +, 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=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU= >>> 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? signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
Re: Community video chats?
On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +, 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=DwIGaQ=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU= 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 ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
Re: Community video chats?
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:42:48 +, Phil Cohen wrote: > 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 http://appear.in before and it seems to work well). Feel free to think there were no Japan. VC wouldn't work for me (and maybe Foozy?) on weekdays. It'll be great if someone takes notes and send them to the list. ___ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel
Re: Community video chats?
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +, 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 http://appear.in 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. > > Phil > > > ___ > 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