On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Eric Fried wrote:
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.
I don't dispute that, and if sufficient people are there, then I hope that such conversations can happen. However, if it's just that hour that is useful, then we don't need to have placement attend in a formal fashion. Spare rooms and a little forethought plus serendipity will do the trick. This is especially the case for Shanghai if the same thing that was true in Denver remains so: most people will be engaged with other meetings and projects [1].
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.
Yes. It might even be possible to call it mature and close to done. That's what it is if nobody is clamoring for features. [1] BTW: I think this is a good thing. If placement requires three days of 30 people who only work on that talking at one another, we're doing placement completely wrong. -- Chris Dent ٩◔̯◔۶ https://anticdent.org/ freenode: cdent