Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-09-05 Thread Julian Eisel
TL;DR: +1 for alternating Monday meetings; development forum is an interesting idea; big +1 for a weekly activity log. Re: Alternating meeting Alternating Monday meetings make sense to me. Re: Dev forum The idea of having a forum specifically for development sounds really

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-09-03 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi, Totally agree on this: > Activity log: It would be nice if this helped users see what is being > funded by the dev fund, cloud, etc. Not to belittle contributions from volunteers (these are essential), but to invite more companies to hire developers or to support the foundation. A lot of

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-09-02 Thread Campbell Barton
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Corey Richardson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 16:48, Corey Richardson wrote: >> I created This Week in Rust and also spearheaded the transition to >> Discourse (including all the initial setup + admin). You _can_ interact with >> discourse

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-09-01 Thread Corey Richardson
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 16:48, Corey Richardson wrote: > I created This Week in Rust and also spearheaded the transition to > Discourse (including all the initial setup + admin). You _can_ interact with > discourse through email, but it's somewhat clunky. Definitely less pleasant > than > ...

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-09-01 Thread Corey Richardson
I created This Week in Rust and also spearheaded the transition to Discourse (including all the initial setup + admin). You _can_ interact with discourse through email, but it's somewhat clunky. Definitely less pleasant than On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 14:37, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > Activity log:

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-09-01 Thread Brecht Van Lommel
Activity log: It would be nice if this helped users see what is being funded by the dev fund, cloud, etc. Discourse: I wouldn't mind if this replaced mailing lists in the end. It seems mailing list archives can be imported and you can also interact with it through email. On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-08-31 Thread Aaron Carlisle
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Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-08-30 Thread Campbell Barton
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Werner wrote: > Hi, > > answers are inlined: > >> On 28. Aug 2017, at 14:27, Ton Roosendaal wrote: >> >> Proposal: alternate Monday meetings to be 10:00 and 18:00 Amsterdam time. >> Drop the Sunday meetings. > > I like

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-08-30 Thread Stefan Werner
Hi, answers are inlined: > On 28. Aug 2017, at 14:27, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > > Proposal: alternate Monday meetings to be 10:00 and 18:00 Amsterdam time. > Drop the Sunday meetings. I like the alternating time idea, that should allow people from more time zones to

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-08-29 Thread Campbell Barton
Having a "This Week in Blender Development" ~ activity log would fill a gap. Not just for anyone interested in following development, it could also help give attention to new development - patches, branches etc. Currently there activity on developer.blender.org which is too detailed, or the very

Re: [Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-08-28 Thread Aaron Carlisle
I like the idea of moving the weekly meeting to Monday and alternating the time. As far as other forms of communication a definitely think that something better needs to be done. I like the idea of activity log, the forum would be hard to maintain a could end up like:

[Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

2017-08-28 Thread Ton Roosendaal
Hi everyone, With a lot of Blender's development now handled by people who do it as a daytime job, the weekend meetings are increasingly hard to keep interesting and useful. The Monday morning 2.8 kickoff session (see previous mail) is much more productive. However, it only suits EU and