On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 12:58 -0500, Eric Fried wrote:
Chris-
asked for feedback from the rest of the placement team on whether we need to do any placement work there, given the value we got out of the virtual pre-PTG in April.
Let me ask again: Do we need a presence at the PTG in Shanghai?
The email-based virtual pre-PTG was extremely productive. We should definitely do it again.
However, I feel like that last hour on Saturday saw more design progress than weeks worth of emails or spec reviews could have accomplished. To me, this is the value of the in-person meetups. It sucks that we can't involve everybody in the discussions - but we can rapidly crystallize an idea enough to produce a coherent spec that *can* then involve everybody. well if ye do a virtual email based pre-ptg again why not also continue that virtual concept and consider a google hangout or somehting to allow realtime discussion with video/etherpad. i personally found the email discussion hard to follow vs an etherpad or gerrit review per topic but it did have pluses too.
Having said that, I'm really not coming up with any major design topics that would benefit from such a meetup this time around. I feel like what we've accomplished in Train sets us up for a cycle or two of refinement (perf/docs/refactor/tech-debt) rather than feature work. I suppose we'll see what shakes out on the
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