On 10/5/23 19:31, Dumitru Ceara wrote: > Hi all, > > On 9/22/23 09:19, Frode Nordahl wrote: >> 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? >> > > I'm going to try to summarize the points/concerns that were raised > so far in this email thread and during the IRC meetings. Please > do correct me if I missed or mis-interpreted something. > > - there seems to be positive reaction from the community to the > proposal of having an occasional A/V technical community > meeting. > > - there's a request to not replace the IRC weekly (that should > stay weekly and be used for informal status updates). > > - the cadence of this new community meeting is not yet agreed > upon: > - there were a few suggestions to have a monthly meeting > with a pre-defined agenda and with the option of > cancelling the meeting if there's not enough to talk > about. > - an alternative would be to have these technical meetings > at the beginning of each development cycle (every ~6 months) > with an option of ad-hoc touching points in between. > > - there was a suggestion of recording the meetings and posting > the recordings to ovn.org. Personally I'm not sure I'd favor > that; the reason being that I think it might cause people to > be more reluctant to join. I'm OK either way though. Related > to this point, there was a suggestion to take and share > meeting notes. > > - we briefly discussed about the medium to use and, at least > during the IRC meeting, it seemed like Google Meet would > be an OK option for now. > > With all this in mind and (luckily) because we're at the > beginning of the 24.03 development cycle, my suggestion > would be to schedule a first community A/V technical meeting > with two agenda items: > > 1. What new features or relevant changes does the community > think are important to have in the next release (24.03.0)? > 2. Decide on a cadence for the technical meetings. > > Here are some proposals for dates and times for a first > meeting. Please reply with a list of what works best for > you, preferably best options first. Alternative suggestions > are also fine. > > Monday October 23rd 3PM UTC / 8PM PDT > Tuesday October 24th 3PM UTC / 8PM PDT > Monday October 23rd 7PM UTC / 12PM PDT > Monday October 30th 3PM UTC / 8PM PDT (this is just before the ovn-k8s > community meeting)
FWIW, 3PM UTC on any Monday sounds fine to me. Monday 7PM is the second best, but not particularly desirable. :) And I may have a conflict on Tuesdays on and off. > > I can share a Google Meet invite link as soon as we agree > on the best time for this first meeting. We can decide > about recording the meeting/taking notes on the spot in > the beginning of the meeting. > > Thanks, > Dumitru > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
