Hi all, Quite often there are subjects in the dev list, Jira issues, and GitHub PRs, that trigger long discussions and exchanges among many people. In many cases, I think that we could reach consensus and better understand each other if we were holding live discussions.
Online meetups would be also a nice opportunity to meet each other in a different way than the emails which could possibly help to improve our relationships. Although we could decide to hold meetups in a per-case basis it might be easier to schedule in advance some slots a few times per month were anybody is invited to join. We could use these slots for advancing ongoing discussions, brainstorm on new ideas, review PRs, sign keys, and anything else related to our community. To begin with we could try to hold a single meetup per month and see later on how it goes. It doesn't have to be long and we can decide the duration based on the availability of the participants at the beginning of each meetup. I would like to invite people (committers or not) who would be willing to join these online meetups to reply to this thread and indicate their preferences (in UTC): a few intervals that they would be potentially available. The ranges should be rather large so that it is easier to find some overlapping among us. For instance: Stamatis ======= Option 1: Mon to Fri 10:00 - 16:00 Option 2: Sat, Sun: 7:00 - 21:00 It is definitely not a commitment that the person will join the meetup but rather a best effort to find slots that would satisfy the majority. So for me the above means that if the meetup is inside the above intervals there is a high change that I will join. If it is outside, I might still join but it will be more difficult. A few topics that may be suitable for the first meetup would be the following: 1. Line endings for source files on Windows 2. Remove Kotlin 3. Move CalciteAssert and similar "test framework" 4. On-demand traitset request 5. Volcano's problem with trait propagation: current state and future Other?? Needless to say that these meetups do not replace the dev list or Jira but just add another mean to improve our collaboration. Let me know how does this look! Stamatis
