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

Anita Kuno anteaya at anteaya.info
Mon Nov 30 16:58:06 UTC 2015


On 11/23/2015 01:00 PM, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> 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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Listing your virtual sprint on the virtual sprints wikipage is helpful
to those folks who might not work on ironic daily to consider helping:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/VirtualSprints

Thanks,
Anita.



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