[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Developer IRC meeting: Friday, October 16th, 9:00 am EST

[Dan Scott]

We had 13 total responses to the poll for best times to hold the
developer IRC meeting, although two of them were refined responses based
on the clarification of the 1:00am/2:00am as actually meaning 1:00pm /
2:00 pm.

So of the total of 11 responses, the best time (where only one person
would not be able to attend) turned out to be Friday, October 16th, at
9:00 AM EST. My apologies to our friends on the West Coast - you're
welcome to attend in your pyjamas, even in bed - just don't turn on your
webcams, please :)

As a reminder, this is a public meeting for Evergreen developers that
will be held on the #evergreen channel on the Freenode IRC network
(http://open-ils.org/irc.php). All members of the community with an
interest in contributing to the development of Evergreen are welcome to
attend - and if you are unable to attend at the designated time, please
feel free to submit comments for any of the agenda items in advance to
the Evergreen development mailing list.

The agenda is continuing to evolve at
http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=dev:meetings:2009-10 - please
extend and amend to ensure that it meets the immediate concerns of the
project. We might be able to make the meeting go a bit smoother by doing
some work in advance; for example, I've taken a few minutes to try and
clean up the bugs/features in Trac that I should have closed months ago
or deferred to a subsequent release.

For agenda items that have the potential to be too long to express
during a single IRC meeting, it would probably make sense to post more
considered opinions in advance on this mailing list. Examples of such
agenda items might include major release process changes or drastically
revising our bug tracking processes. If a given discussion item starts
eating up too much meeting time and a decision is not immediately
necessary, we can also delegate the responsibility to a volunteer
sub-team for investigating alternatives and coming up with a proposal
for adoption at the next meeting.

Lastly, all of this is new, so I'm sure there will be plenty of learning
as we go - like, distinguishing between AM vs. PM. Heh. :)