[OpenSER-Devel] irc meetings..

[Henning Westerholt]

Hi,

according the initial idea, the purpose of our IRC meetings is:

- discuss the latest developments in and around OpenSER
- coordination between the different developers
- talk about actual areas of improvement in the project
- give an overview about the current direction of development
- discuss about specific patches or Bugs

I would like to add another two points that are also important for me:

- give users (and potential developers) a "low barrier" chance to participate 
- make the deciscion process of our project more transparent

In order to trying to get a successful meeting, and not to bore all 
participants to dead i think that some rules are useful:

- it should not be longer than three hours, better two
- its agenda must not be resonable short and not include low level topics 
  where only one or two people(s) could talking about
- if some topics are controversial and could not be resolved in a certain time 
  then the discussion should be continued on the devel list
- Complicated low-level (technical) details are also better discussed on the 
  devel list because the IRC channel is not really optimal for this type of 
  conversations


After the problems we've faced during the todays meeting i think we could 
improve our actual process a little bit.

1. We should split the meeting in a organizational, and a technical part.
2. We should do more regular meetings, in order to not get such a big agenda.
3. If we do a technical meeting, then we should provide sufficient material 
   (list threads, pointers to docs or code etc..) to give participants a 
   chance to prepare themself.
4. Prior evaluation if some questions are better discussed on the devel list.


I also want to make it clear that i don't fight for the task of beeing the 
moderator and doing all this belonging work, so if anybody wants to step up 
for the next meeting, i would be appreciate this of course.

I still see the need for meetings like this, just to getting things done, but 
perhaps we can also evaluate the possibility of a phone conference. Doing 
just more real-life meetings would be of course the best.


Cheers,

Henning