[Rock-dev] Rock development discussions

[Raul Dominguez]

On 09/23/2014 02:44 AM, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
>> 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.
> +1 to "separate videos" (no more than 2 persons per screen). Meetings
> where one person is outside and the rest in the same room is just
> useless for the person that is not in the room. As soon as the
> "in-room people" start talking to each other (which happens quite
> naturally very often), the lone guy just does not understand what is
> going on.
+1. Though I don't consider myself a core developer/maintainer (yet) I 
would like to keep myself up-to-date on the rock framework development 
discussions.
>
>> 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.
> I like the hangouts suggestion. Since the goal is to be public,
> there's no issue with privacy to me ...
+1
>>> * 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.
> I don't think we're enough people so that adding yet-another-website
> makes sense, honestly. We're what, 5 active developers (tops !) ? We
> should probably vote on that one though ...;-)
>
>> They just ask their co-worker or do a "autoproj rebuild".
> The knowledgeable co-workers will need to have the discipline to
> either fix the problem (on the machines *and* in Rock) or redirect
> them to rock-users instead of answering questions. What one has to
> stress there is that it is a much better solution even for them,
> because "the knowledgeable co-worker" is not always around while there
> is often someone reading rock-users.
>
> Sylvain
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Raúl

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