Hi,
We discussed this some in the Oslo meeting yesterday[0], and I wanted to
send a followup because there wasn't universal support for it.
One of the outcomes of the PTL tips and tricks session in Denver was
that courtesy pings like we use in the Oslo meeting are considered bad
IRC etiquette. The recommendation was for interested parties to set up
custom highlights on the "#startmeeting oslo" (or whichever meeting)
command. Also, there is an ics file available on eavesdrop[1] that can
be used to import the meeting to your calendaring app of choice. I
should note that I don't seem to be able to configure notifications on
the imported calendar entry in Google calendar though, so I'm not sure
how useful this is as a reminder.
A couple of concerns were raised yesterday. One was that people didn't
know how to configure their IRC client to do this. Once you do configure
it, there's a testing problem in that you don't get notified of your own
messages, so you basically have to wait for the next meeting and hope
you got it right. Or pull someone into a private channel and have them
send a startmeeting command, which is a hassle. It isn't terribly
complicated, but if it isn't tested then it's assumed broken. :-)
The other concern was that this process would have to be done any time
someone changes IRC clients, whereas the ping list was a central thing
that always applies no matter where you're connecting from.
Anyway, I said I would send an email out for further public discussion,
and this is it. I'm interested to hear people's thoughts.
I'd argue that as long as people opt in to a courtesy ping, and have a
clear way to opt out, then the courtesy ping is not bad etiquette.
It would be great if folks managed their own meeting reminders, but
if they appreciate a ping at the start of the meeting, I see no reason
not to do that.
// jim
Thanks.
-Ben
0:
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/oslo/2019/oslo.2019-05-13-15.00.log.html#l-44
1: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Oslo_Team_Meeting