[libvirt] RFC: Any interest in a weekly(?) dev community meeting ?

[Jim Fehlig]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 01:53:50PM -0400, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>   
>> Hi Libvirt team,
>>
>> A number of opensource projects have weekly meetings between their community
>> of contributors to facilitate their day-to-day working and particularly
>> to resolve roadblocks that people are having.
>>
>> I feel that libvirt is large enough, with contributors from many different
>> organizations, that a meeting could be beneficial to our operation. This
>> could serve a number of purposes
>>
>>  - Remind us of patches that have been posted and accidentally forgotten
>>    by reviewers
>>
>>  - Resolve hard debates that are not making adequate progress on the
>>    mailing list(s)
>>
>>  - Track progress of major ongoing pieces of work with many collaborators
>>
>>  - Forum for those new to the community to introduce themselves & their
>>    ideas before starting work
>>
>>  - Discuss release critical bugs during freeze periods
>>
>>  - Place for downstream users of libvirt (eg openstack/ovirt/etc) to
>>    interact with libvirt team.
>>
>>  - Place for projects we use (eg KVM, Xen) to interact with libvirt
>>    team.
>>
>> I like to keep the overhead of this low, so I'd suggest we try todo it
>> on IRC, since that has been fairly effective for OpenStack teams.
>>
>> If people think this is worth while I'd suggest an arbitrary time of
>> 1500 UTC using the #virt-meeting IRC channel on irc.oftc.net, to last an
>> absolute max of 1 hour. Currently this time point works out as
>>     
>
> Opps, missd the day - I was meaning to suggest 
>
>   *1500 UTC on thursdays* 
>   

Thanks Daniel.  I think this is a great idea, and unlike the similar
proposal you made for a nova libvirt sub-team meeting, I'm available
during this time slot.  Well, with the exception of this week.  Were you
planning the first meeting this Thursday, as in May 22nd?

Regards,
Jim

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>>     08:00 San Francisco
>>     11:00 Boston
>>     15:00 UTC
>>     16:00 London
>>     17:00 Berlin
>>     20:30 Mumbai
>>     23:00 Bejing
>>     24:00 Tokyo
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>>     http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0p1=0
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> Regards,
> Daniel
>