Re: [OpenStack-Infra] Tri-Weekly IRC meetings?

[Blair Bethwaite]

At least for the scientific-wg, what we're actually looking for is
4weekly rather than monthly. I'd be surprised if there's a big call
for monthly given peoples calendars generally work on a weekly basis
for other things...?

Cheers,
Blair

On 16 November 2016 at 10:40, Tony Breeds <t...@bakeyournoodle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:10:04PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Blair Bethwaite wrote:
>> > On 10 Nov 2016 8:56 PM, "Thierry Carrez" <thie...@openstack.org
>> > <mailto:thie...@openstack.org>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The issue with this solution is that any "monthly" slot ends up being
>> >> exactly the same as a "weekly" slot: you can't schedule any
>> >> weekly/biweekly meetings at the same time and location. Monthly meetings
>> >> are therefore paradoxically more wasteful than biweekly meetings, and
>> >> there is therefore little point in adding them to the software since you
>> >> can emulate them with "weekly" bookings and just skip most meetings.
>> >
>> > That seems to be based on the assumption that other groups wouldn't want
>> > monthly scheduling?
>> >
>> > Also, I'd suggest we avoid "monthly" altogether and instead use
>> > "4weekly", that would seem to allow biweekly meetings to use the same
>> > day on the alternate (odd/even) week.
>>
>> 4weekly sounds like a good idea! Less conflicts ftw.
>>
>> If we really really want monthly stuff, we could create a channel
>> dedicated to monthly meetings, to avoid creating conflicts on every
>> channels.
>
> I feel like there'is a tension here that we need to work through
>
> is yaml2ical a library for others (outside OpenStack) to use?  If it is and
> *they* want monthly meetings then I really think we shoudl include them.  The
> conflict deection isn't *that* hard and the need for other recurrence types
> would tidy the code.  So form this POV I htink we shoudl certainly allow for
> this.
>
> Within OpenStack, we have several groups that want Monthly meetings so we
> shoudl work out a way to support that.
>
> What we do right now is schedule a weekly meeting and then add a description 
> to
> say "we only hold this on thr nth $day" [1]
>
> We could create a 4weekly which would reduce the wastage.  I'm also open to
> creating #openstack-meeting-monthly and just moving all the monthly meetings
> there.  I feel like we get asked for a solution to this often enough that we
> need to define an answer.
>
> Yours Tony.
>
> [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Documentation_User_Guides_Team_Meeting



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Cheers,
~Blairo

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Re: [OpenStack-Infra] Tri-Weekly IRC meetings?

[Blair Bethwaite]

On 10 Nov 2016 8:56 PM, "Thierry Carrez"  wrote:
>
> The issue with this solution is that any "monthly" slot ends up being
> exactly the same as a "weekly" slot: you can't schedule any
> weekly/biweekly meetings at the same time and location. Monthly meetings
> are therefore paradoxically more wasteful than biweekly meetings, and
> there is therefore little point in adding them to the software since you
> can emulate them with "weekly" bookings and just skip most meetings.

That seems to be based on the assumption that other groups wouldn't want
monthly scheduling?

Also, I'd suggest we avoid "monthly" altogether and instead use "4weekly",
that would seem to allow biweekly meetings to use the same day on the
alternate (odd/even) week.

Cheers,
Blair
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