On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:44 PM, William Markito <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > What do you think about doing some spec reviews through Google hangout ? > > There are some JIRAs open that will have some specs attached but it > would also be nice if we had some discussions/presentations about the > proposed specs. > > The idea would be to announce the hangouts here on the dev list and > share the notes after the meeting on the list as well. That's not saying > that discussions won't happen on the list, but just that some specs could > be better discussed in a video conference.
Part of the Incubation process is to encourage diverse participation, so synchronous communication mechanisms should be embraced only with extreme care. If the only people who end up attending are those who are employed by Pivotal, then, well, that's just an echo chamber. With synchronous communication methods, one particular sensitive point is what timeslots work for folks - for example, I catch up on the Geode lists outside of normal working hours. Cloud Foundry After Dark only happens at 8pm Pacific, which makes it near impossible for Europeans or, even, East Coasters to participate. I don't know what the geographic dispersion is of folks are currently, but I do believe that there are Gemfire communities in Europe and Asia. In a global footprint, an option that I've seen is that the some communities try to do a rotation of their weekly - it will rotate through 3 time slots - basically, Europe morning, US morning, and Asia morning. (They actually do something like US/EU/US/Asia to make it slightly more predictable.) And, it's understood that not everyone will make every weekly. Also, Etherpad is a pretty good way to draft the minutes collaboratively - the Ceph community has a pretty good process there: http://pad.ceph.com/p/performance_weekly HTH. -- justin
