On 7/11/17 7:09 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:42:48PM +0000, Phil Cohen wrote:
Many of us enjoy the fast-paced collaboration that happens during Mercurial's
sprints. Alas, they only happen twice a year. In the interim, many of us have
used ad-hoc videoconferencing to whiteboard ideas ahead of code review, and
this has worked pretty well. It'd be great to do even more here.
One thing that was suggested in the last group get-together was to establish a
regular time for community members to “hang out” on VC if they're available,
and discuss any technical topics or proposals that come up. The goal is for
this to be informal, replicating the sprint atmosphere as much as possible, so
there'd be no need for a strict agenda (though we could create one if there's
sufficient demand for topics). If nobody ends up wanting to talk about anything
(a remote scenario, perhaps :) we can always end early.
These video chat sessions should hopefully fill a niche that's poorly satisfied
by IRC or e-mail today: discussing topics in-depth at high bandwidth before
patches hit the mailing list.
Does this sound like something people would want to participate in? If so, we should hash out a good
time (spitballing: Friday mornings? One problem is between US, Europe, and Japan, you can only ever
pick satisfactory times for two of the three), frequency (fortnightly?), and videochat platform (Augie
and I have used
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__appear.in&d=DwIGaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=nuarHzhP1wi1T9iURRCj1A&m=_T5aO7D7rY_Z7ImHZYBM5Fgrqdmamr3GPqHqFthl-2A&s=Kafrn1OKTr8b6_4cLyRGdi8rogXB8ypSEfpqjp-LlPU&e=
before and it seems to work well).
I'm happy to try and join. I've considered having VC-available "office
hours" that people could use to get help on patches, debugging,
whatever. If there's interest in that I can try and pick a time.
Also happy to just casually hang out on VC once every couple of weeks.
I'm all for it. I think it would help keep things unblocked and the
sprint discussions tend to motivate people so perhaps regular
discussions would help keep the motivation flowing.
We have plenty of topics going around these days:
- phabricator
- sparse
- obsstore
- upstreaming other extensions
to name a few
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