Hello, Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2012 schrieb Pascal Bleser:
I'd like to propose or at least discuss dropping the bi-weekly openSUSE project meetings on IRC.
Reasons are: * because of timezones, work/family/etc, only a handful of people is able to attend the meetings (and there is no solution to that);
Yes, known bug. OTOH, we tried alternating meeting times in the past and IIRC we didn't get more or different people attending. So either the wrong time was chosen or the people in other timezones didn't want to join for whatever reason. So let me ask a questions to the readers of this mailinglist: If you do _not_ attend the IRC meetings - WHY?
* as far as I've been attending those meetings (so that's a few years now already), there have always been 5 or 6 people who have participated (aside from the board team);
Maybe, but you could argue the same way for the mailinglist - there are always the same 5 people keeping a long thread alive... (BTW: I like the idea to ask at the beginning of the meeting who is awake enough to follow the meeting, even if he/she doens't say something later.)
* there is nothing that is discussed there that couldn't be discussed on the opensuse-project mailing list instead.
Sure? For example we wouldn't know that Henne thought it's already summertime without the last IRC meeting *eg*
Any reason to keep the IRC project meetings? I don't see any, even though I'm quite fond of IRC ;)
The IRC meeting has a big advantage: Speed. One hour of IRC meeting replaces a week of mailinglist discussions. Additional bonus: IRC has less OT discussions ;-) BTW: The new IRC meeting agenda (discuss only topics we have to discuss instead of the more or less fixed "old" agenda) is a big improvement IMHO and solves the "IRC meetings are boring" problem. (And yes, this includes not to have a meeting if we have no topics to discuss.) Regards, Christian Boltz -- [ComputerBild] Allerdings wird wahrscheinlich eher die Hölle zufrieren als das dieses Organ der Presselandschaft, deren Inhalt einer jeden Ausgabe locker auf einer Briefmarke Platz hätte, [für die Etikette] eine Spalte hergibt. [Thomas Templin in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org