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

[Richard Weinberger]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> 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
>
>     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
>
>     http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=15&min=00&sec=0p1=0

I like this idea a lot!

> Regards,
> Daniel
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Thanks,
//richard