Hello Dumitru and Team, On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:25 PM Dumitru Ceara <dce...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > As you probably know and as the ovn.org website mentions [0] we have > weekly OVN IRC meetings, in #openvswitch on irc.libera.chat (the time is > slightly wrong but that's a different issue [1]). > > In my opinion these meetings are useful because we (well, anyone > interested) can share status updates about what they currently work on > in the OVN world.
The weekly IRC meetings are indeed valuable, they are very useful for coordinating ongoing community activities and highlighting/discussing any issues that are not obvious across company barriers on a day to day basis. > I wonder however if it would make sense to have an alternative technical > meeting (it doesn't necessarily have to replace the weekly IRC one but > it may) where slightly more in depth technical discussion can happen. > I'm thinking of this as an optional first step that might happen before > posting the first (RFC) version of a feature, for example. Or as a > place where objectives for a new LTS can be defined from a community > perspective. > > At the same time I wonder if such a meeting would be more effective if a > different communication medium would be used (e.g., an online video > conference system). > > In short, would a monthly (audio/video) technical community meeting > sound like an interesting idea to you? Thank you for bringing this up. My immediate reaction is positive, an audio/video meeting would carry more bandwidth for exchanging thoughts and ideas on any topic discussed. If we manage to create a safe space for bouncing not necessarily fully thought through ideas off each other, it could be quite powerful. I'm wondering a bit about the cadence though, IIUC the examples of potential topics to discuss fall into the planning ahead category. Would it perhaps make sense to have these meetings before the start of each development cycle, i.e. a set of meetings every 6 months or so, perhaps with touch points in between? -- Frode Nordahl > Thanks, > Dumitru > > [0] https://www.ovn.org/en/#irc-meetings > [1] https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn-website/pull/57 > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
