[openstack-dev] [tc][all] Discussing goals (upgrades) with community @ office hours

Michael Johnson johnsomor at gmail.com
Mon Oct 15 20:44:05 UTC 2018


I am interested in participating in this discussion.

I think we have had a few goals that were selected before all of the
parts were in place. This leads to re-work and/or pushing goals work
into the already busy milestone 3 time frame.

Michael
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 5:16 AM Chris Dent <cdent+os at anticdent.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, Mohammed Naser wrote:
>
> > Does this seem like it would be of interest to the community?  I am
> > currently trying to transform our office hours to be more of a space
> > where we have more of the community and less of discussion between us.
>
> If we want discussion to actually be with the community at large
> (rather than giving lip service to the idea), then we need to be
> more oriented to using email. Each time we have an office hour or a
> meeting in IRC or elsewhere, or an ad hoc Hangout, unless we are
> super disciplined about reporting the details to email afterwards, a
> great deal of information falls on the floor and individuals who are
> unable to attend because of time, space, language or other
> constraints are left out.
>
> For community-wide issues, synchronous discussion should be the mode
> of last resort. Anything else creates a priesthood with a
> disempowered laity wondering how things got away from them.
>
> For community goals, in particular, preferring email for discussion
> and planning seems pretty key.
>
> I wonder if instead of specifying topics for TC office hours, we kill
> them instead? They've turned into gossiping echo chambers.
>
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