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On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> Flavio Percoco wrote:
>>>>
>>>> - Do not automatically discuss everything in governance but only
>>>> things a
>>>> member raises specifically as IRC meeting topic ? (i.e. if after one
>>>> week a
>>>> thing has 7-votes and nobody puts it on the agenda, consider it good)
>>>> - something else ?
>>
>>
>> We kinda do this already, don't we?
>
>
> Only for a number of simple changes. Resolutions and other significant
> formal-vote changes are systematically discussed in-meeting, even if nobody
> puts them on the agenda.
>
>> [...]
>> I've been thinking more about this and I believe what we need is to be
>> more
>> strong with keeping the IRC conversation focused. All the parallel
>> discussions
>> are not helpful. It's like being in an in-person meeting and having
>> everyone
>> talking over each other about different things. Sure, it's IRC but...
>
>
> Right, my take-away of this discussion so far is that we should not change
> the meeting format or discussions that much, but (1) spend time in advance
> of the meeting to review the proposed change (not necessarily just minutes
> before the meeting) so that we know where everyone is standing and (2) try
> to avoid side-discussions when we discuss a topic as best as we can.
>
I think this is a workable way forward, and I agree with your take-away.

> Thanks,
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)