----- "Eric \"Sparks\" Christensen" <sparks(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
I wanted to bring this to the Docs community's attention so we can
make
our own decision on whether or not we want this resource or not.
We have been using the pingall tool in zodbot for the last few months
allowing us to notify everyone in our room that a meeting was
beginning
to start. Since its removal we've found that the "solution" is very
hacky and doesn't work very well. We've also found that several
people
missed the meeting because they forgot and weren't reminded.
I've talked to a couple of people over in -admin and they say they
can
turn it back on for our channel. I support bringing this
functionality
back to our channel. It just makes sense to allow the projects to
have
the tools they need.
I wonder about the people that complained in the first place. I can
understand not needed/wanting this functionality in non-project rooms
(i.e. #fedora-meeting) but when it is useful to the project then we
should be able to have that functionality.
Just wanted to throw this out there so we could have a discussion
before
any decisions are made. Comments encouraged.
- --Eric
I don't think any reasonable person would object to "reasonable" use,
something like a single pingall 10 minutes before a meeting. Where the problem comes in is
when it is something extreme like every 5 minutes for an hour. I would have to check my
logs but I know before a few meetings there were 3 and more in the hour before a meeting.
If someone misses a meeting because they did not get a pingall then perhaps they should
look at other reminder options available. After all we had meetings all the time before
this functionality, as such clearly it is far from a "requirement" to have a
successful and well attended meeting.
-- Bob
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