Hi! Thanks Marga for following up.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:51:42PM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > On 03.03.2015 11:46, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > For future meetings I plan to: > > > > 1) When there seems to be agreement on something but it's not 100% clear do: > > > > marga suggests: #agreed we should do foo/bar/baz > > > > And then people can state clearly if they don't agree. This is not just > > for me, anyone can suggest an agreement. It usually helps if we try to > > formulate what we agree on, so that we stop discussing things that > > everyone already is ok with, and so that people with concerns can raise > > objections explicitly about the part that they don't agree with. > I would then suggest to differentiate between the final #agreed and previous (possible multiple) #proposed? And really only state an agreement when there is one, to avoid confusion. > I also find that sometime I'm trying to write an answer and topic/agree > were moved before I can press RETURN. > +1 > > 2) If the discussion goes on long after it was slotted to finish, > > suggest that we should follow up on a different medium (on list, > > follow-up IRC meeting, phonecall, whatever). > > A meeting should be allowed to take as much as 1.5 x the programmed > meeting, and in this period all items in agenda should be discussed (but > when they are clearly postpone-able). So if a discussion take to long, > we need to block it before it take the time from other agenda items. > > But there are many exceptions. Yesterday we agree to open registration > today, so that agenda item took more time, because of many details. So > our meeting rules don't be too strict. In future we will have to deal > with many more deadlines. > > IMHO we should also avoid to move too much discussion away from > meetings: there is more risk to have no decision, but with too long > discussions (which will be repeated on many different channels). > I'm not sure about 1.5 x the expected duration, but IMHO a 10-20 min overflow allowance would be good. I'm not saying that we should make all meetings longer, but in cases that we can't reach an agreement on time, being a bit late wouldn't be the end of the world. Tassia. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
