While I appreciate the enthusiasm of folks on this thread who would like to see such calls/meetings happen - I am a bit wary for the reasons noted below.
Those of us who were on the Sqoop PMC during mid-2012 will recall that the project did such meetings before too. They will also recall that it raised some questions from the board regarding the conduct of these meetings. Specifically - to ensure that anyone from anywhere could join the calls, that no decisions were made on these calls, and that important discussions that sparked off in the call be brought back to the mailing list for further continuation and conclusion. Thanks to the members of the Sqoop PMC at that time, we followed this with due diligence and were able to ensure that these conditions were adequately met. The specifics of the process at that time were as follows: 1. A one-week notice for the meetings (eg [1]), using a system that allowed easy participation from anywhere in the world. At that time we were using WebEx call bridge that provided toll-free access numbers for various countries. The announcement was also posted on the JIRA being discussed in these meetings (eg [2]) 2. The meeting minutes were sent out on the email list (eg [3]), and recorded on the wiki for posterity (eg [4]). 3. Any actionable items discussed were brought back to the Jira with full context and follow-up through the regular mailing-list/Jira resolution process (eg [5]). That was done in mid-2012. If we were to do this now, I would request the PMC to follow the process diligently to ensure that it stays open, transparent, and inclusive to the broader community that Sqoop has. To that affect, I would request the champions of these meetings to first document the full process on the wiki, discuss it on the mailing list, and put it to a vote for approval. [1] http://s.apache.org/9tF [2] http://s.apache.org/Pzb [3] http://s.apache.org/Map [4] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/Sqoop2+Weekly+Meeting+Minutes [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-491 Regards, Arvind Prabhakar On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:31 AM, SHANKAR REDDY <[email protected] > wrote: > '+1 > > Kind Regards, > Sankara Telukutla > +1 510 936 0999 > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Venkat Ranganathan < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Jarcec. In fact myself and Jarcec spoke about this over couple > of > > meetings also. Let us get the mechanics in order! > > > > Developers/Contributors > > > > Please share ideas on how you want to do it > > > > Thanks > > Venkat > > > > > > > > On 2/16/15, 7:08 AM, "Jarek Jarcec Cecho" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >This is a wonderful idea Venkat, I’m strong +1 to have regular community > > >contributor sync ups :) > > > > > >Jarcec > > > > > >> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:24 PM, Xu, Qian A <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Oh yes. Chinese people are in GMT+8 > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Zhou, Richard [mailto:[email protected]] > > >> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:27 AM > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Subject: RE: Sqoop developer meetings > > >> > > >> +1, one suggestion, we should choose a good time slot, since some > folks > > >> +are in China :) > > >> > > >> > > >> Regards > > >> Richard > > >> > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Abraham Elmahrek [mailto:[email protected]] > > >> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:24 AM > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Subject: Re: Sqoop developer meetings > > >> > > >> +1 > > >> > > >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Veena Basavaraj > > >><[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >>> +1. Love to. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Regards > > >>> Veena > > >>> > > >>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Venkat Ranganathan < > > >>> [email protected]> wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> Hi Sqoop developers > > >>>> > > >>>> Over the years I have been involved here, we have had one off > > >>>> meetings to discuss issues. > > >>>> > > >>>> I think with the rapid clip of progress going on, it might be a good > > >>>> time to think about having more regular meetings (say scheduled > > >>>> every other > > >>> week > > >>>> or once a month) to discuss Sqoop development tasks. > > >>>> > > >>>> What do you guys think? > > >>>> > > >>>> Thanks > > >>>> > > >>>> Venkat > > >>>> > > >>> > > > > > >
