Jukka, So is it common practice/OK to have a scribe keep meeting points and bring them back to a mailing list thread?
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitt...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote: > > More of an Apache policy than anything. Not sure how strict it is but > > this one was hammered into us early. (I appreciate the reasoning too.) > > > > I personally don't mind as most arch stuff will bubble up here anyhow. > > > > Mentors? > > It's perfectly fine to discuss project matters also outside the > mailing list, as long as all significant matters and decisions are > brought back to the list where everyone has a chance to chime in even > if they're in a different time zone or otherwise not able to > participate in real-time discussions. > > In practice a good guideline is that you're fine as long as you don't > encounter situations where you get people asking "Why was this done > like this?" and the answer is "We decided it in that meeting on IRC / > phone / etc.". Unless it's a trivial matter (like a simple bug fix > that doesn't need much background), you should be able to answer such > questions with a pointer to the list archive or the issue tracker > where the matter was brought up for discussion. The starting point of > such a discussion could well be a summary of some real-time meeting > elsewhere. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting >
