[Rock-dev] Rock development discussions

[Martin Zenzes]

On 09/19/2014 10:33 AM, Jakob Schwendner wrote:
> I have a feeling we need to improve the way we discuss our development of
> Rock.
"development?" Or rather "maintenance"?
>   A few ideas for this:
> * do a video chat once a month. I would start with anyone who wants to
> participate. When we reach number over the technology limit we could always
> limit later to core development team.
+1

Maybe a video format where every guy sits alone in front of his own 
computer and talks to the group? This would equalize the perceived 
barrier between each participant, no matter how much physical distance 
there is between us.

What about Google hangout? Though I only know this tool as a Viewer, not 
as a User... To access the informations we could create links into 
specific positions inside the masses of video streams. Not very private, 
though.
> * Record decisions and discussions. The wiki is probably the best way for
> now. I kind of liked the loomio tool, though.
loomio... Looks like a full-featured "community council", suitable for 
the formal decisions? We also need to spread and collect the "implicit 
documentation" about the internals of the framework.
> * Improve ML communication. Really stick to what we agreed on: discuss
> bigger changes in the ML. If in doubt how big the change is, discuss.
> * Your opinion REALLY is important. If you have one, join the discussion.
> Even if it's just an agree/disagree. I know sometimes it's difficult to join
> into a heated discussion. Not heating them too much could be a way here.
> Conciseness on the discussion could also help.
There is this latent fear of saying or doing something "inappropriate"? 
An impression I get from Users talking about Rock: They have a 
"something breaks my compilation" -- but don't care enough to bitch 
around somewhere public. They just ask their co-worker or do a "autoproj 
rebuild". But this is the worst effect a framework can have: standing in 
the way, causing extra work or extra thoughts.

Greetings
     Martin

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