On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 03:10:04PM +0100, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Blair Bethwaite wrote: > > On 10 Nov 2016 8:56 PM, "Thierry Carrez" <thie...@openstack.org > > <mailto:thie...@openstack.org>> wrote: > >> > >> The issue with this solution is that any "monthly" slot ends up being > >> exactly the same as a "weekly" slot: you can't schedule any > >> weekly/biweekly meetings at the same time and location. Monthly meetings > >> are therefore paradoxically more wasteful than biweekly meetings, and > >> there is therefore little point in adding them to the software since you > >> can emulate them with "weekly" bookings and just skip most meetings. > > > > That seems to be based on the assumption that other groups wouldn't want > > monthly scheduling? > > > > Also, I'd suggest we avoid "monthly" altogether and instead use > > "4weekly", that would seem to allow biweekly meetings to use the same > > day&time on the alternate (odd/even) week. > > 4weekly sounds like a good idea! Less conflicts ftw. > > If we really really want monthly stuff, we could create a channel > dedicated to monthly meetings, to avoid creating conflicts on every > channels.
I feel like there'is a tension here that we need to work through is yaml2ical a library for others (outside OpenStack) to use? If it is and *they* want monthly meetings then I really think we shoudl include them. The conflict deection isn't *that* hard and the need for other recurrence types would tidy the code. So form this POV I htink we shoudl certainly allow for this. Within OpenStack, we have several groups that want Monthly meetings so we shoudl work out a way to support that. What we do right now is schedule a weekly meeting and then add a description to say "we only hold this on thr nth $day" [1] We could create a 4weekly which would reduce the wastage. I'm also open to creating #openstack-meeting-monthly and just moving all the monthly meetings there. I feel like we get asked for a solution to this often enough that we need to define an answer. Yours Tony. [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Documentation_User_Guides_Team_Meeting
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