Design Process : IRC Developer Meeting
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*State*         _Final_
*Date*          _2007-06-15_
*Proposed by*   link:ct[]
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IRC Developer Meeting
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Meet regularly on IRC to discuss about short time issues.


Description
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Set up some schedule for a regular developer meeting on IRC. The idea is that
we have some time where we can resolve some issues which requires group
communication quickly.

Things like:

 * Who works on what, whats going on
 * Who needs help for something
 * Make Decisions about pending proposals

We should make small 'to be talked about' list beforehand (on the wiki) and
write an also small protocol afterwards about the decisions made.

I'd suggest to do this first Friday of each month at 21:00GMT, thats late
evening in Europe and afternoon in USA. Details need to be acknowledged.


Tasks
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Pros
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Cons
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 * Inflexible - People's lives and schedules can easily change within a few
   months thus making them unavailable for further meetings


Alternatives
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 * We should decide to meet every 4th week. The exact day and time shall be
   decided 1 week prior to the meeting week to give members time to prepare and
   resolve scheduling conflicts.


Rationale
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Comments
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* A short meeting every week is a must. "meeting" means a fair amount of the
  developers involved show up and there is a possibility to point at current
  problems. We could make a Full Meeting in the way proposed by
  link:MichaelPloujnikov[] additionally. But even one week can be dangerousely
  long in software developement, esp. when the dev process is so open and
  distributed.

* Personally, I am OK with Friday 21GMT
 -- link:Ichthyostega[] [[DateTime(2007-06-17T00:29:54Z)]]

* Friday 21GMT is only good for me starting in two weeks until September. After
  that it's booked for the Winter. Thursday 21GMT would be better.
 -- link:MichaelPloujnikov[] [[DateTime(2007-06-17T03:09:36Z)]]

* Also Ok for me
   -- link:ct[] [[DateTime(2007-06-17T17:20:37Z)]]

* I think this (monthly) meeting should not be too frequent and address more
  global project directions, having a more frequent meeting rather makes it
  more unattractive and time consuming for slightly involved people. This does
  not means that we cant meet more often, but this should be acknowledged
  between people who work together on some features/subsystems. That would also
  have the benefit that such small groups are very flexible to meet, even daily
  on hot phases and able to acknowledge times when all members can attend. And
  later if timing is not that good only one person of such a subproject/group
  may attend to the monthly meeting and report/collect information there. Its
  likely hard enough to get many developers to meet at one time in month (when
  we have more devs than now :P)
 -- link:ct[] [[DateTime(2007-06-17T17:20:37Z)]]

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