[openspending-dev] Development process

Sat Mar 23 15:23:24 UTC 2013

On 23 March 2013 19:41, Tryggvi Björgvinsson
<tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org>wrote:

>  On fös 22.mar 2013 02:29, Nigel Babu wrote:
>
> Timezones are harder
> to account for on weekends since it'll be at an awkward time for at least
> someone and will kill their weekend :)
>
>
> Alright. Weekends are probably not the best time, although I'd like more
> devs to be able to attend than the core devs -- open meetings for everybody.
>
> I don't know what would be the best time. What about 14 UTC on the first
> Thursday of each month (I'm basing the time on Europe but trying to account
> for Brazil and India)?
>

1400 UTC on first Thursday of the month works for me.

>
>
>   It would be nice to
> note that "git rebase" is **never** a good idea once a branch has been pushed
> to github.
>
>
> What do you mean?
>
>
Oh, I mean the git rebase" command itself. Since it rewrites history.

>
>  I've often
> found that speaking makes a meeting faster than using IRC. So, if we can
> make that a voice call instead, that'd be nice.
>
>
> The reason I propose IRC is I don't like voice calls because they can
> neither be archived (easily) nor searched. Using IRC (and a logging bot)
> allows us to focus on the discussion instead of writing meeting notes. We
> can even set up rules like when someone decides to do something he/she
> writes out a line starting with: "TODO: " (easily searchable) or some other
> rules. I also like when discussing technical things to have them written
> out rather than spoken out (we pronounce technical words differently). It
> avoids misunderstanding.
>
> Plus, try to drop a link to an awesome gif into a voice call ;-)
>
> I don't mind the meeting being a bit slower since I feel these benefits
> outweigh speed.
>

Valid points, I agree IRC does have significant benefits. I'll arrange for
a bot once we start scheduling the meetings.

>
> /Tryggvi
>
>
>

Nigel
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