+1 that just about covers it from my point of view. I'd also be interested in experimenting with a 1hr email session. Email is pretty fast nowadays and refreshing and responding via the mailing list could also work. It would also remove the really annoying thing about IRC which is the loss of context on the msgs. For example:
Fred: I propose X as the best solution Joe: Y is better Bill: I agree Of course Bill was actually agreeing with Fred but the pathetically slow IRC response (at least on my system) combined with many people "talking" at once causes confusion. I guess I just don't like IRC ;-) I will attend when I can tho... On 06/07/06, Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to see if I can recap where this thread went. There seem to be two sets of opinion: 1) that regular scheduled chats are helpful 2) that impromptu, unscheduled chats are helpful In light of this, I'd like to propose the following IRC policy for the project: == We will hold a regular scheduled chat at the current time (15:30GMT every Monday) to discuss non-urgent things that people may be interested in. Subjects should be posted to the list in advance so that people can make a decision on whether to attend; attendance is encouraged but optional. The folk that show up get to choose what is discussed. We will also hold pre-announced chats at other times so try and bring closure to issues that seem to be dragging on in email threads. The point of these is to come to a decision and such outcomes must be posted to the list for all to review. It is the discussion on the list that is binding. In general we will encourage community members to hang out on the IRC channel so that anyone can hold an impromptu discussion with folk that happen to be around. We especially encourage committers to be available so that new users have a way to reach someone. Any decisions should be summarized to the list. == I hope that captures everyone's thoughts and if so I'd suggest we put it on the website. If not, how about meeting on IRC to close this out? -- Jeremy On Jul 5, 2006, at 3:04 AM, ant elder wrote: > There's a thread going on over on incubator-general about the use > of IRC: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115111286000001&r=1&w=2 > > Are people happy with having our current weekly hour long IRC chat? > I find > the chat a useful way to find whats going on and gauge peoples > opinions. A 1 > hour chat isn't so long that its hard to read the chat log, we could > probably do better at providing a summary of what was said, and > maybe post > the log and summary on the wiki so its easier to find. So I think the > current chat is useful and works ok but we can change this if > others don't > like it. > > Currently the chat focus has been primarily Java SCA, should we try > and > include C++ or SDO or DAS more? Or have separate extra chats for > those? > Often the chat is one long rambling conversation, should we try to > be more > structured and have a set 10 minutes for this, 10 minutes for that > type of > thing to just get a regular status and have any followup discussion > on the > mailing list? > > Is the 15:30GMT on Monday time slot ok? > > What do you think? > > ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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