[ovirt-users] [DISCUSSION] oVirt Weekly Sync Goals and Future.

[Brian Proffitt]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandro Bonazzola" <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 2:46:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] [DISCUSSION] oVirt Weekly Sync Goals and Future.
> 
> Il 01/04/2015 17:28, Yaniv Dary ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> > In my opinion the current format can be replaced by a etherpad update that
> > is sent as a newsletter every week. The current format doesn't add a lot
> > of
> > value to the project work and doesn't create a real sync on the ongoing
> > topics. No decisions are done today there as well.
> > 
> > What do you think should be the goal of the weekly meeting? How can we
> > improve it? Is a newsletter a good enough update?
> 
> I think a newsletter can replace the current sync format.
> 
[snip]

Etherpad will unfortunately not work, nor any tool that is available to Red Hat-only community members. Any medium we evaluate has to be publicly available, or it is of little use to the oVirt community.

Mailing lists can work, but we have to get around the problem of "missed" threads. The very fact that this thread went answered by just one person in the six days it has been live is evidence that threads on high-traffic mailing lists can get missed. Or consciously ignored. Encouraging people to attend a real-time synchronous meeting with a regular cadence can avoid that problem.

I am not set on what the format/structure of such a public meeting should be, but we need to think about:

* What do we want to achieve?
* What decisions are we going to make?
* What is the role of the attendees? 
* Who gets what out of the meeting?   

One way to conduct such meetings could be the stakeholder/observer model from agile development meetings, otherwise known as "the chicken and the pig" model[1]. This would essentially be a variation of what we do know, with statuses given by stakeholders and questions reserved at the end for observers and participants.But people can at anytime ask to be upgraded to stakeholder status for that meeting.

I think that curating weekly meetings and saying "here are the issues that will be discussed" and keeping those issues interesting could be a way to go. Like "what new features *should* be added to 3.6?" or "how *can* we position/improve ourselves against X?" 

Peace,
BKP

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig


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