[Bf-committers] No Monday or Tuesday meetings for the time being

[Ryan Inch]

It seems to me that you are still having drop in pseudo-meetings on 
Mondays, just not advertising them.
I understand that if something doesn't work it needs to be reevaluated 
and changed, but the meetings are an important outreach to the community 
and a chance for developers to bring up issues (both internal devs and 
community devs) that need wider discussion (such as GSoC).

If having a meeting at a specific time is too restrictive then perhaps 
Mondays should become an official (and advertised) "meeting day" and 
then anyone can chime in throughout the day, new developers can be 
announced, issues brought up, etc...  This should help encourage 
participation from the community.  And perhaps a Google Doc (or 
equivalent) could be maintained as a list of issues/points to be 
considered during the day (open to the community to add issue/point 
suggestions) and updated as the day progresses.

Hopefully this shows that weekly meetings are still valued by the 
community and can be improved so that they are valuable for everyone to 
attend.

Thank you for your consideration.
Ryan

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> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:33:28 +0100
> From: Dalai Felinto <dalai at blender.org>
> To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Subject: [Bf-committers] No Monday or Tuesday meetings for the time
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> Hi,
> The Monday (developers) and the Tuesday (modules) meetings are currently on
> hold. The Monday one has very little quorum and is rarely useful.
>
> The Tuesday talks (module meetings) are quite a joy actually and I will
> miss talking to the modules owners 1:1. But they have always being more
> like a  healthy check then a permanent solution. What we need instead is to
> make sure the modules are properly structured and can operate autonomously.
> But this is a separate topic.
>
> I have a new idea on how to do the weekly communication of the ongoing
> module and projects:
>
> * We keep the weekly online page in devtalk for the weekly notes [1].
> * Developers keep adding their weekly reports there.
> * Everyone adds relevant announcements there
> * [new] Modules and projects then add their notes there as well,
> asynchronously.
> * [new] At the end of Mondays I do a final pass in the page and post it
> here.
>
> [1] - https://devtalk.blender.org/t/15-february-2021-upcoming/17475.
>
> Any feedback is welcome.
>
> Best regards,
> -Dalai-
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> Dalai Felinto - dalai at blender.org - www.blender.org
> Blender Development Coordinator
> Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 09:45:11 -0700
> From: Ray Molenkamp <ray at lazydodo.com>
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] No Monday or Tuesday meetings for the
> 	time being
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> That seems somewhat strange and out of the blue (at least for me), the lack of reasoning for putting them on hold especially for the Tuesday ones you seem fond of is concerning, what am i missing here?
>
> --Ray
>
> On 2021-02-08 9:33 a.m., Dalai Felinto via Bf-committers wrote:
>> Hi,
>> The Monday (developers) and the Tuesday (modules) meetings are currently on
>> hold. The Monday one has very little quorum and is rarely useful.
>>
>> The Tuesday talks (module meetings) are quite a joy actually and I will
>> miss talking to the modules owners 1:1. But they have always being more
>> like a  healthy check then a permanent solution. What we need instead is to
>> make sure the modules are properly structured and can operate autonomously.
>> But this is a separate topic.
>>
>> I have a new idea on how to do the weekly communication of the ongoing
>> module and projects:
>>
>> * We keep the weekly online page in devtalk for the weekly notes [1].
>> * Developers keep adding their weekly reports there.
>> * Everyone adds relevant announcements there
>> * [new] Modules and projects then add their notes there as well,
>> asynchronously.
>> * [new] At the end of Mondays I do a final pass in the page and post it
>> here.
>>
>> [1] - https://devtalk.blender.org/t/15-february-2021-upcoming/17475.
>>
>> Any feedback is welcome.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -Dalai-
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dalai Felinto - dalai at blender.org - www.blender.org
>> Blender Development Coordinator
>> Buikslotermeerplein 161, 1025 ET Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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