Taking a recent example, I think there is a big difference between http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-09-06-20.03.html and http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack-meeting/2011/openstack-meeting.2011-09-06-20.03.log.html. The first is too short, and the second is too long.
The best thing I can come up with to describe what would be better (a midpoint) is a journalistic report of what happened at the meeting. Something with more info than what meetbot provides (3 votes, 2 decisions, jbryce talked 54 times, etc) but more clear than the IRC logs (holy great wall of text, Batman!). Meetbot's summaries are precise, but they have a non-human flavor to them, and they are only as good at the moderator for the meeting. The goal (as I understand it) of having all the meetings in the open is to make the decision-making process transparent and accessible. The current setup meets the letter of the law, but perhaps not the spirit. --John On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 12:51 -0500, John Dickinson wrote: >> I too would like to see official community and PPB meeting summaries. >> Ideally, I think it'd be nice for the summaries to be written by >> someone not involved in the discussion[1], but that wouldn't be >> required. Something between what the meetbot produces and the raw IRC >> logs would be nice. > > I'm very undecided about this as I don't know how this can be achieved. > Nice summaries from IRC discussions are not only very hard to produce > but also may introduce mistakes in the reports. > > If meetbot reports are not sufficiently intelligible we should think > about ways to improve them. Or adopt Apache's policy of "if the > discussion was not on the mailing list it didn't happen". > > Lets start by clearly identifying the problem: What are the major pain > points of meetbot reports? > > /stef > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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