On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Florent Guillaume wrote:
Nuxeo proposes to host the meeting in Paris, at the end of March or in
April. I think it should last around one week, if we want to be thorough
and not do just half of the work.
To expand on what Gianugo has already said:
<mentor hat on>
There's the Apache Retreat in Ireland on 9th-12th April, which I would
heartily recommend everyone coming to if they can. It will be a great
chance to meet other Apache people, and there will be plenty of others
around to help out with questions, offer advice and guidance, give
examples of where things like this have been done before etc.
Wherever and whenever the F2F meeting occurs, I would suggest
* The agenda is circulated in advance on-list so that others not able to
attend can comment
* As much as possible of the different plans are put on a wiki / discussed
on list, again for wider feedback
* At the end of every day, someone must email a summary of the discussions
to the list
* Nothing should be considered final until it has been agreed in person,
relayed to the list, and no-one from the list has objected. If
objections are raised by email, that area needs to be taken out of
F2F discussions and moved on-list.
* This means that some things will take much longer than the F2F few
days to resolve, whilst others can be approved of and accepted by
the community in nearish F2F time
* Architecture drawings, plans etc should be posted to the wiki or the
list as soon as possible. Make sure discussions end a few hours early
each day so there's time to document and share the output of it
.. and probably one or two other things that escape me at the moment!
It may seem like quite a bit more work, but based on the experiences of
other apache projects, and newly apache projects (subversion for example
has some good examples of how to do this sort of thing), it really is
required to keep things working smoothly.
It really would be good if one or two of the newer chemistry committers
could make it to the retreat to hear more about this sort of thing from
people who've done it before. Maybe even do the retreat then straight to
Paris for the F2F, if your families will let you be away for that long!
</hat off>
Nick
