On Jul 6, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
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.
I like all of this except the above. I thought decisions of substance
cannot be made on IRC? It sounds unfair since people oftentimes
cannot attend. I have no problems with discussions but decision
making should be on the list. I hate to be a contrarian on this point
but I feel it is important.
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?
No :-) Let's close it out on this list.
--
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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