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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 04:11:45PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> 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?

Does Thursday 1400 UTC work for you ?  Eric would prefer this 1 hour
earlier slot.

Regards,
Daniel
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