[openstack-dev] [Ironic] Do we need to have a mid-cycle?

Jim Rollenhagen jim at jimrollenhagen.com
Mon Nov 23 18:00:44 UTC 2015


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 06:05:54AM -0800, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> 
> Another idea I floated last week was to do a virtual midcycle of sorts.
> Treat it like a normal midcycle in that everyone tells their management
> "I'm out for 3-4 days for the midcycle", but they don't travel anywhere.
> We come up with an agenda, see if there's any planning/syncing work to
> do, or if it's all just hacking on code/reviews.
> 
> Then we can set up some hangouts (or similar) to get people in the same
> "room" working on things. Time zones will get weird, but we tend to
> split into smaller groups at the midcycle anyway; this is just more
> timezone-aligned. We can also find windows where time zones overlap when
> we want to go across those boundaries. Disclaimer: people may need to
> work some weird hours to do this well.
> 
> I think this might get a little bit bumpy, but if it goes relatively
> well we can try to improve on it for the future. Worst case, it's a
> total failure and is roughly equivalent to the "no midcycle" option.

Nobody has objected, so we're going to roll with this. See y'all there. :)

// jim



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