[CentOS-devel] Weekly SIG meetings

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 03:42:05PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> On 3/1/19 5:55 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> 
> > We, for opstools sig stopped regular irc meetings. At the end, it was
> > just two of us, talking repeatedly about the same; for both of us,
> > the main focus of work moved on; that doesn't mean, the SIG or its
> > content became irrelevant, it just means, there is no need of adding
> > another meeting to the week, when there's nothing to talk about.
> > 
> > With that being said, if there is something, I'm happy to organize
> > new meetings.
> > 
> > What about other SIGs? Or maybe it would be useful to have a regular
> > "SIG"/project sync meeting with SIG chairs reporting progress?
> 
> Or possibly a weekly/biweekly update sent to the mailing list, or ...
> something.
> 
> We've partially filled this space with the quarterly reporting that we
> instituted this year, and we're getting those from most of the SIGs.
> 
> Mostly, I'm concerned about two things:
> 
> 1) that someone who wanted to participate has a place/time when they can
> speak up and find someone listening.
> 
> 2) that work on the SIG doesn't disappear into internal (let's be
> honest, Red Hat) engineering teams, with no engagement with the upstream.
> 
> If you're confident that we're ok on these two points, I won't worry too
> much about it.

Ok, I got you. Being more present in order to catch any possibly
interested parties, that is the major benefit of having a regular
meeting. On the other side, the barrier of contacting anyone by
email should be pretty low, same for irc .

Regarding embedding in other communities, I'm currently happy, that
communities like openstack kolla, OPNFV Barometer or also the collectd
upstream community are now better connected to us (or we to them).

Matthias

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Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>