Hi Florian, All, Was there any decision concerning this workshop? Thanks.
Best regards, Pedro ________________________________________ From: collectd [[email protected]] on behalf of Matthias Runge [[email protected]] Sent: 08 November 2018 19:32 To: Florian Forster Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [collectd] Interested in doing a workshop kind of contributor meetup? On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 06:00:50PM +0100, Florian Forster wrote: Hey, this is good to know. I would have started with one day; on Sunday, there is a monitoring devroom planned at FOSDEM, this is how it looked like last time[1]. I would suggest to hold our meetup not on Sunday then. In the past, we've had contributor meetups for CentOS and OpenStack on Friday before FOSDEM. By coincidence, there is a CentOS Dojo planned for next time, too. Let me try and collect options for next year and get back to you asap. Best, Matthias [1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/monitoring_and_cloud/ > Hi Sunku, > > thanks for your feedback! > > Let me give a quick update: so far, 15 people responded to the survey, so a > small to medium meeting room should suffice. > > I'm unsure for how long we should meet, but my gut suggestion would have been > two days. What do others think? > > The last week in January was the most popular one, but numerous people have > pointed out that FOSDEM is on February 2nd and 3rd (Sat/Sun) and suggested > to combine this. I'm sympathetic to moving the meeting to Brussles, but I > think > it's too late to get a "devroom" at FOSDEM itself and I don't have any > contacts > in Brussles (that I know of). > > If you know of a company in Brussles that would be willing to host us, either > before or after the conference, it'd be great if you could get in contact :) > Likewise, if you work for a company that would be willing to sponsor a > conference room in a hotel for a day or two. > > Last but not least: topics. I think it would be useful to collect some topics > up front so that people have a chance to sleep on them. My top-2 topics are: > > * (How to) attract and retain new maintainers; enable existing maintainers to > get more done (e.g. through https://collectd.org/2958). > * Agree on feature set of the new major version. My suggestion: move to > label-based metric names, introduce "distribution" data type and remove > "absolute" data type. > > Best regards, > —octo > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:05:07PM +0000, Ranganath, Sunku wrote: > > Hi Florian, > > > > Surely a big thanks for helping organizing this. Looking forward for the > > meetup and discussion. > > We (from Intel side) are flexible on the location and time of the meetup. > > Provided feedback through the survey link. > > > > The important topic of interest from our side is about moving to time based > > release. > > Onboard with Matthias on discussing the suggested topics. The only other > > topics to add on is about "code owners" & CI. > > > > This is surely a good progress in bringing together the community. > > Hope to accelerate going ahead. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Sunku Ranganath > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: collectd [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthias > > Runge > > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:03 AM > > To: Florian Forster <[email protected]>; [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [collectd] Interested in doing a workshop kind of contributor > > meetup? > > > > On 27/10/2018 11:21, Florian Forster wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > that's a great idea! > > > > > > I've talked to Matthias and we'll try to organize a venue in München, > > > Germany where both of us work. Arranging something on a work day is > > > going to be easier than on the weekend, at least if one of our > > > employers is hosting us. In any event, knowing the number of > > > interested parties would be super helpful. It'd be great if you could > > > take 30 seconds to fill out this three-question survey: > > > > > > https://goo.gl/forms/GLYrW18Jui1luxGi2 > > > > > > Best regards, > > > —octo > > > > > > Thank you Florian for putting this up! > > > > Since we're targeting early next year, we might also think of co-locating > > this with FOSDEM in Brussels (if that's an option?), as it might enable > > folks to combine travels? > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Topics for the meetup I would imagine are: > > > > - review guidelines for reviewing code > > - what are groups doing? presentations of involved projects? > > - next big(ger) changes requested/planned for development > > - ramping up interested persons > > - discussion on changing the release model? feature-based vs. time-based > > releases? > > - ... > > > > Best, > > Matthias > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Matthias Runge wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I wondered if there is interest in having a meetup for collectd > > >> contributors, or if there is a way to distribute the load of > > >> maintenance on more shoulders. > > >> > > >> I'm open to ideas to improve the situation, that could be: > > >> > > >> - create/maintain a wishlist for new features/changes > > >> - define/collect low-hanging fruits for (new) contributors > > >> - maybe switch to a different release model? Would automatism help there? > > >> - create/maintain a wiki page for review or coding guidelines > > >> - is the > > >> > > >> I'd be happy to organize/help organize a personal meeting, or to host > > >> a video conference, irc meeting, whatever helps.... > > >> > > >> Feedback is very welcome here. Based on the turn the discussion will > > >> take, we would decide on next steps. > > >> > > >> Best, > > >> Matthias > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> collectd mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > collectd mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd > > -- > Florian octo Forster > Hacker in training > GnuPG: 0x0C705A15 > http://octo.it/ > -- Matthias Runge <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd _______________________________________________ collectd mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd
