I'd like to see if I can recap where this thread went. There seem to
be two sets of opinion:
1) that regular scheduled chats are helpful
2) that impromptu, unscheduled chats are helpful
In light of this, I'd like to propose the following IRC policy for
the project:
==
We will hold a regular scheduled chat at the current time (15:30GMT
every Monday) to discuss non-urgent things that people may be
interested in. Subjects should be posted to the list in advance so
that people can make a decision on whether to attend; attendance is
encouraged but optional. The folk that show up get to choose what is
discussed.
We will also hold pre-announced chats at other times so try and bring
closure to issues that seem to be dragging on in email threads. The
point of these is to come to a decision and such outcomes must be
posted to the list for all to review. It is the discussion on the
list that is binding.
In general we will encourage community members to hang out on the IRC
channel so that anyone can hold an impromptu discussion with folk
that happen to be around. We especially encourage committers to be
available so that new users have a way to reach someone. Any
decisions should be summarized to the list.
==
I hope that captures everyone's thoughts and if so I'd suggest we put
it on the website.
If not, how about meeting on IRC to close this out?
--
Jeremy
On Jul 5, 2006, at 3:04 AM, ant elder wrote:
There's a thread going on over on incubator-general about the use
of IRC:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115111286000001&r=1&w=2
Are people happy with having our current weekly hour long IRC chat?
I find
the chat a useful way to find whats going on and gauge peoples
opinions. A 1
hour chat isn't so long that its hard to read the chat log, we could
probably do better at providing a summary of what was said, and
maybe post
the log and summary on the wiki so its easier to find. So I think the
current chat is useful and works ok but we can change this if
others don't
like it.
Currently the chat focus has been primarily Java SCA, should we try
and
include C++ or SDO or DAS more? Or have separate extra chats for
those?
Often the chat is one long rambling conversation, should we try to
be more
structured and have a set 10 minutes for this, 10 minutes for that
type of
thing to just get a regular status and have any followup discussion
on the
mailing list?
Is the 15:30GMT on Monday time slot ok?
What do you think?
...ant
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