[Bf-committers] Weekly meetings and communication channels

[Corey Richardson]

I created This Week in Rust and also spearheaded the transition to
Discourse (including all the initial setup + admin). You _can_ interact with
discourse through email, but it's somewhat clunky. Definitely less pleasant than

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 14:37, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> Activity log: It would be nice if this helped users see what is being
> funded by the dev fund, cloud, etc.
> 
> Discourse: I wouldn't mind if this replaced mailing lists in the end. It
> seems mailing list archives can be imported and you can also interact with
> it through email.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:53 PM, Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.b3d at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > For a developer forum/general questions Phabricator as a feature called
> > Ponder https://secure.phabricator.com/ponder/
> >
> > Aaron Carlisle
> >
> > Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist
> > Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Werner <stewreo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > answers are inlined:
> > > >
> > > >> On 28. Aug 2017, at 14:27, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Proposal: alternate Monday meetings to be 10:00 and 18:00 Amsterdam
> > > time. Drop the Sunday meetings.
> > > >
> > > > I like the alternating time idea, that should allow people from more
> > > time zones to participate.
> > > > Picking a right day is hard though - weekdays are good paid
> > > contributors, weekends better for volunteers.
> > > >
> > > >> 1) Forums: (discourse)
> > > >> https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories <
> > > https://internals.rust-lang.org/categories>
> > > >
> > > > Some kind of developer focussed forum is helpful, I would think. Right
> > > now, we’re abusing the bug tracker
> > > > as forum: https://developer.blender.org/T46258 <
> > > https://developer.blender.org/T46258>
> > >
> > > This looks like proper tracker use to me, focused design tasks for
> > > planning is fine.
> > >
> > > There are a few times I've seen people try and use tracker more like a
> > > forum for asking questions or submitting a patch which is really a
> > > question about code. I don't think its much of a problem.
> > >
> > > Even so, could be nice to try out a forum for developers.
> > >
> > > > Discussions like this don’t work at all on IRC and not very well in
> > > mailing lists.
> > > >
> > > >> 2) Weekly activity log
> > > >> https://this-week-in-rust.org/ <https://this-week-in-rust.org/>
> > > >
> > > > Helpful, we should do that.
> > >
> > > While it would be nice, are people interested to write/manage this?
> > >
> > > Maybe best to do a trial-run for ~5 weeks or so, continue if it's working
> > > out.
> > >
> > > >> 4) No mailing lists!
> > > >> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2015-January/011558.html
> > > >>
> > > >> Now I don't think we need to drop mailing lists, but the forums and
> > > activity log sound great.
> > > >> Discourse also might help making our onboarding process better.
> > > >
> > > > If we use a web based forum, please let’s pick one that works well on
> > > mobile devices
> > > > (including the ones that are not the latest and greatest) and sends
> > > server-side generated
> > > > static HTML. Responding to email on a smartphone is quick and easy and
> > > works even when
> > > > you have a terrible connection. “Modern” HTML pages sometimes require
> > > several MB
> > > > just to display essentially a couple of paragraphs of text.
> > > >
> > > > For example, one of the forums I visit sometimes runs on nodeBB. Just
> > > the forum start page
> > > > comes in at 1.17MB. That’s ridiculous and I pretty much never read it
> > on
> > > my phone. BA, even
> > > > with the features images, is only half as big, simple phpBB sites come
> > > in at 300kB. Plain text
> > > > contents of these pages is just a few kB, the rest is mostly decoration
> > > and oh-so-useful features
> > > > nobody uses.
> > > >
> > > > I know, we need to have fast connections to begin with (wouldn’t want
> > to
> > > git clone over GPRS)
> > > > but I like to make my time on the road useful too. From here to BConf
> > is
> > > roughly 7 hours on a train
> > > > that promises WIFI but doesn’t always deliver. Don’t want to let that
> > > time go to waste.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Did you look into https://try.discourse.org ?
> > >
> > > > -Stefan
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> > >
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> > > - Campbell
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