Durham Goode <dur...@fb.com> writes: > 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
I, too, am all for it. If for nothing else than to help convey tone / feeling which text cannot do. I'd be up for helping to get this going as well; perhaps to start with we could try and reach out to known contributors that might miss this kind of thing on the list?
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