On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:36 +0000, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 14:50 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> > Greetings Bug Triagers,
> >
> > Thanks to those of you that came to the bug triage session at FUDCon a
> > couple of Saturdays back. Hopefully it was helpful and you'd still like
> > to join us. Things have gotten slightly better here
> >
http://tinyurl.com/4cavl2 but we still need your help!
> >
> > Our weekly bug triage meeting hasn't happened for several weeks and
we'd
> > like to resume them again. Some of us were tied up with other things
> > and some people were unable to make the time. Also after having a few
> > meetings with one or two people it seemed unclear how best to proceed.
> >
> > So.... we know there are a lot of people interested in bug triage but
> > past meeting attendance hasn't been good so we'd like to try and fix
> > that. At least two or three people sign up for the 'fedorabugs' group
> > every day so there is a disconnect there somewhere we need to fix. And
> > if you think weekly meetings aren't the way to go and there is a better
> > way to proceed please put it forward.
>
> I wonder -- do you think that having evening meetings might help? To
> know whether it would matter, we might want to find out how many people
> who want to triage don't show up because they can't find time during the
> work day. Our experience in the Docs Project was that weeknights were
> generally good, and weekends were decidedly bad.
I think the issue with evenings is timezone. if we say 5:30 PDT that is
8:30 EST and the people in the middle are being pulled away from there
computers to eat dinner with there other family. That is what the matrix
will show.
There is no easy answer to this. I appreciate things can get very
U.S.-centric but please don't forget that there is an entire planet's
time zones to take into account. This must be the case if a more
global effort is to be considered.
I think its also the case that people lead busy lives and simply
forget. If SIGS are to have meetings then they should consider
creating a calendar to subscribe to, make that stand out on the main
$SIG page and also consider some kind of reminder email system ???
Regards
--
Christopher Brown