Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-09-02 Thread Honza Horak

On 08/26/2014 05:02 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

- Original Message -

I don't have any major objections to this, but I will note that
reports stopped being sent to FESCo because at some point they were
kind of redundant.  Still working on thing X every week isn't really
something that needs to be sent.  So I would avoid a weekly deadline
and maybe just post minutes/summaries of the meetings the groups have
when there is actually something to communicate.


It seems to me that what we technically need, and what would solve this problem 
as well, is to have the meeting minutes be actually useful.  As great as 
meetbot is, it takes effort to use it to produce really good meeting minutes, 
and the default output has a lot of output that makes everyone’s eyes glaze 
over.

Ultimately the solution to both the reports and meetbot is the same—human 
editing—but I guess that a good summary for other WGs would be more or less 
equivalent to good meeting minutes (assuming that the obviously internal-only 
“implementation status” topics would be easy to recognize and skip)


Right, I like the idea of making the meeting minutes nice and utilize 
meetbot functions more than we do now. That should cover the meeting 
part of the discussion quiet effectively.


However, some interesting talks are sometimes not discussed during 
meeting (not all groups actually hold meetings regularly), because they 
are covered on group's mailing list already enough. And I'm not sure if 
summarizing those in the beginning of the meeting would work.


Honza


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Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-09-02 Thread Honza Horak

On 08/26/2014 05:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:46:40 +0200
Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com wrote:

...snip...

I'm not against each group doing a summary, but as noted by Josh,
sometimes the summaries are very repetitive ( ...still working on
implemeting roles... etc)


List of proposed MLs to send this summary to:
ser...@lists.fedoraproject.org
desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org
cl...@lists.fedoraproject.org
env-and-sta...@lists.fedoraproject.org
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org


This is turning into my new pet peeve. ;)

Cross posting to bunches of lists is not a good idea, IMHO.

* It means the person posting the summary has to be subscribed to every
   single list they are sending to.
* It means if anyone hits reply to all they have to be subscribed to
   every single list or deal with rejections/bounces/moderation.

I think the best thing would be to mail just one list: devel.


All right, I see the point, cross posting does not seem to be very 
useful, devel@ or meetingminutes@ seem to be more appropriate way.


However, that's actually what we do already and I feel like it does not 
work very well. People need to pay attention to catch the meeting 
minutes they care about and since there is no summary of what is 
happening beyond meetings (on the group's mailing list or even any place 
else), it is almost impossible to stay tuned for non-members.



Failing that, I think the best way we can do cross posting right now is
for people to send seperate copies of an email to each list they want
to post to, follow discussion on all those lists, and then do another
sum up post if there's important feedback from only one list.


Just going back to the original idea -- my goal in the first place was 
to have a simple way for everybody who is interested in what working 
groups work on to learn about that quickly. Bringing this message to 
other groups directly was supposed to prevent people to forget staying 
tuned.


Honza


Comments, ideas or better solutions are welcome as usually, but I
might be offline until Sunday, so do not expect any answers from me
in that time :)


Fair enough.

kevin




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Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-09-02 Thread Stephen Gallagher
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On 09/02/2014 03:44 AM, Honza Horak wrote:
 On 08/26/2014 05:42 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
 On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:46:40 +0200 Honza Horak
 hho...@redhat.com wrote:
 
 ...snip...
 
 I'm not against each group doing a summary, but as noted by
 Josh, sometimes the summaries are very repetitive ( ...still
 working on implemeting roles... etc)
 
 List of proposed MLs to send this summary to: 
 ser...@lists.fedoraproject.org desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org 
 cl...@lists.fedoraproject.org 
 env-and-sta...@lists.fedoraproject.org 
 devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
 
 This is turning into my new pet peeve. ;)
 
 Cross posting to bunches of lists is not a good idea, IMHO.
 
 * It means the person posting the summary has to be subscribed to
 every single list they are sending to. * It means if anyone hits
 reply to all they have to be subscribed to every single list or
 deal with rejections/bounces/moderation.
 
 I think the best thing would be to mail just one list: devel.
 
 All right, I see the point, cross posting does not seem to be very 
 useful, devel@ or meetingminutes@ seem to be more appropriate way.
 
 However, that's actually what we do already and I feel like it does
 not work very well. People need to pay attention to catch the
 meeting minutes they care about and since there is no summary of
 what is happening beyond meetings (on the group's mailing list or
 even any place else), it is almost impossible to stay tuned for
 non-members.
 

One thing I've been doing for the recent Server meetings is publishing
the meetbot notes to the Server WG blog (which appears on Planet
Fedora). I'm trying to get us in the habit of keeping more detailed
#info notes so that this will become more useful going forward.


 Failing that, I think the best way we can do cross posting right
 now is for people to send seperate copies of an email to each
 list they want to post to, follow discussion on all those lists,
 and then do another sum up post if there's important feedback
 from only one list.
 
 Just going back to the original idea -- my goal in the first place
 was to have a simple way for everybody who is interested in what
 working groups work on to learn about that quickly. Bringing this
 message to other groups directly was supposed to prevent people to
 forget staying tuned.
 
 Honza
 
 Comments, ideas or better solutions are welcome as usually, but
 I might be offline until Sunday, so do not expect any answers
 from me in that time :)
 
 Fair enough.
 
 kevin
 
 
 
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Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-08-26 Thread Honza Horak

Hi working groups members,

since we have learned on Flock that new Fedora working groups do not 
communicate with each other much (or enough), I'd like to propose the 
following:


Every working group will time to time (e.g. weekly) send short summary 
about what they did / were talking about directly to mailing lists of 
other working groups + to devel@fp.o. Really only a short summary with 
links where one can find details.


I tried to collect such info from the meeting logs and mailing lists for 
the last few weeks for Env and Stacks WG:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/env-and-stacks/2014-August/000487.html

I found many notes are really worth spreading beyond groups' borders, 
but it takes too much time for one person to collect all the 
information. Thus, proposing to do a summary once per group and share 
with other groups.


Another benefit would be that Matt would have better content for his 5tiftw.

I don't think we need to sync about date or frequency, just remembering 
to send a direct mail if anything interesting is done/discussed should 
work fine.


List of proposed MLs to send this summary to:
ser...@lists.fedoraproject.org
desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org
cl...@lists.fedoraproject.org
env-and-sta...@lists.fedoraproject.org
devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Comments, ideas or better solutions are welcome as usually, but I might 
be offline until Sunday, so do not expect any answers from me in that 
time :)


Cheers,
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Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-08-26 Thread Josh Boyer
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com wrote:
 Hi working groups members,

 since we have learned on Flock that new Fedora working groups do not
 communicate with each other much (or enough), I'd like to propose the
 following:

 Every working group will time to time (e.g. weekly) send short summary about
 what they did / were talking about directly to mailing lists of other
 working groups + to devel@fp.o. Really only a short summary with links where
 one can find details.

 I tried to collect such info from the meeting logs and mailing lists for the
 last few weeks for Env and Stacks WG:
 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/env-and-stacks/2014-August/000487.html

 I found many notes are really worth spreading beyond groups' borders, but it
 takes too much time for one person to collect all the information. Thus,
 proposing to do a summary once per group and share with other groups.

 Another benefit would be that Matt would have better content for his 5tiftw.

 I don't think we need to sync about date or frequency, just remembering to
 send a direct mail if anything interesting is done/discussed should work
 fine.

 List of proposed MLs to send this summary to:
 ser...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 cl...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 env-and-sta...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

 Comments, ideas or better solutions are welcome as usually, but I might be
 offline until Sunday, so do not expect any answers from me in that time :)

I don't have any major objections to this, but I will note that
reports stopped being sent to FESCo because at some point they were
kind of redundant.  Still working on thing X every week isn't really
something that needs to be sent.  So I would avoid a weekly deadline
and maybe just post minutes/summaries of the meetings the groups have
when there is actually something to communicate.

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Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-08-26 Thread Miloslav Trmač
- Original Message -
 I don't have any major objections to this, but I will note that
 reports stopped being sent to FESCo because at some point they were
 kind of redundant.  Still working on thing X every week isn't really
 something that needs to be sent.  So I would avoid a weekly deadline
 and maybe just post minutes/summaries of the meetings the groups have
 when there is actually something to communicate.

It seems to me that what we technically need, and what would solve this problem 
as well, is to have the meeting minutes be actually useful.  As great as 
meetbot is, it takes effort to use it to produce really good meeting minutes, 
and the default output has a lot of output that makes everyone’s eyes glaze 
over.

Ultimately the solution to both the reports and meetbot is the same—human 
editing—but I guess that a good summary for other WGs would be more or less 
equivalent to good meeting minutes (assuming that the obviously internal-only 
“implementation status” topics would be easy to recognize and skip)
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Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-08-26 Thread Ben Cotton
Isn't this what the meetingminutes mailing list is for? I'd argue that
a better solution is to have regular (not weekly) coordination
meetings where representatives of the WGs can talk about what's going
on and coordinate cross-WG issues.

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Re: Proposal for every WG to send a short summary *to other WGs directly*

2014-08-26 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:46:40 +0200
Honza Horak hho...@redhat.com wrote:

...snip...

I'm not against each group doing a summary, but as noted by Josh,
sometimes the summaries are very repetitive ( ...still working on
implemeting roles... etc)

 List of proposed MLs to send this summary to:
 ser...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 desk...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 cl...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 env-and-sta...@lists.fedoraproject.org
 devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

This is turning into my new pet peeve. ;) 

Cross posting to bunches of lists is not a good idea, IMHO. 

* It means the person posting the summary has to be subscribed to every
  single list they are sending to. 
* It means if anyone hits reply to all they have to be subscribed to
  every single list or deal with rejections/bounces/moderation. 

I think the best thing would be to mail just one list: devel. 

Failing that, I think the best way we can do cross posting right now is
for people to send seperate copies of an email to each list they want
to post to, follow discussion on all those lists, and then do another
sum up post if there's important feedback from only one list. 

 Comments, ideas or better solutions are welcome as usually, but I
 might be offline until Sunday, so do not expect any answers from me
 in that time :)

Fair enough. 

kevin




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