[Sugar-devel] Development Meetings

[Aleksey Lim]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 04:50:59PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:33:12AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:47:03 +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:05:40AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:16:47PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > >> > What about having [only] upcoming meeting on nearest weekends,
> > >> > something like Saturday, 22:00 UTC?
> > >> 
> > >> Nak.  Already booked, weekly event, high priority.
> > >> 
> > >> http://whenisgood.net/ may interest you, it is a way to schedule an
> > >> event ... I've found it very useful.
> > > 
> > > ... Of course this thread might be used to discuss all topics before the
> > > meeting.
> > 
> > Dear Aleksey and James,
> > 
> > Here are some small comments and questions for you: 
> > 
> >     1. I am *much* more likely to read and/or participate in your discussions if
> >        they occur in email as opposed to in IRC.
> > 
> >     2. If you do decide to use email, please use separate threads for separate
> >        topics, perhaps with "RFC:" and "RFD:" subject prefixes. 
> > 
> >     3. Regardless of medium, how do you imagine summarizing the feedback received
> >        as a result of discussion for easy access in the future?
> > 
> >     4. How do you intend to bring discussions to closure?
> 
> These are good questions. I personally think that having more formalized
> ML discussion (to take core team decisions) will be a huge plus (it is
> impossible to take any decision only during a meeting) and not only for
> people who prefer email to IRC.
> 
> Does anyone have ready to use recipes?

One of ideas I have in mind (which is partially exposed in [1]'s trust topic) is
having something like OpenBSD core team instead of current practice with
maintainers and peers. In our case it might sound like that all committers, to
particular core project, are involved into taking non-regular decisions (regular
ones are just approving regular patches from [1]) and particular decision
might be taken by simple majority of voices...

Thoughts, experience to share?

> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Meetings#Upcoming_Agenda
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Meetings#Upcoming_Meetings

-- 
Aleksey