[Gluster-users] Proposal: Changes in Gluster Community meetings

Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan atumball at redhat.com
Wed May 1 12:36:45 UTC 2019


On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 8:47 PM Darrell Budic <budic at onholyground.com>
wrote:

> I was one of the folk who wanted a NA/EMEA scheduled meeting, and I’m
> going to have to miss it due to some real life issues (clogged sewer I’m
> going to have to be dealing with at the time). Apologies, I’ll work on
>  making the next one.
>
>
No problem. We will continue to have these meetings every week (ie,
bi-weekly in each timezone). Feel free to join when possible. We surely
like to see more community participation for sure, but everyone would have
their day jobs, so no pressure :-)

-Amar


>   -Darrell
>
> On Apr 22, 2019, at 4:20 PM, FNU Raghavendra Manjunath <rabhat at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is the agenda for tomorrow's community meeting for NA/EMEA timezone.
>
> https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both
> ----
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 4:56 AM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <
> atumball at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Below is the final details of our community meeting, and I will be
>> sending invites to mailing list following this email. You can add Gluster
>> Community Calendar so you can get notifications on the meetings.
>>
>> We are starting the meetings from next week. For the first meeting, we
>> need 1 volunteer from users to discuss the use case / what went well, and
>> what went bad, etc. preferrably in APAC region.  NA/EMEA region, next week.
>>
>> Draft Content: https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g
>> ----
>> Gluster Community Meeting
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Previous-Meeting-minutes>Previous
>> Meeting minutes:
>>
>>    - http://github.com/gluster/community
>>
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#DateTime-Check-the-community-calendar>Date/Time:
>> Check the community calendar
>> <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=dmViajVibDBrbnNiOWQwY205ZWg5cGJsaTRAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Bridge>Bridge
>>
>>    - APAC friendly hours
>>       - Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/836554017
>>    - NA/EMEA
>>       - Bridge: https://bluejeans.com/486278655
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Attendance>Attendance
>>
>>    - Name, Company<Optional>
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Host>Host
>>
>>    - Who will host next meeting?
>>       - Host will need to send out the agenda 24hr - 12hrs in advance to
>>       mailing list, and also make sure to send the meeting minutes.
>>       - Host will need to reach out to one user at least who can talk
>>       about their usecase, their experience, and their needs.
>>       - Host needs to send meeting minutes as PR to
>>       http://github.com/gluster/community
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#User-stories>User stories
>>
>>    - Discuss 1 usecase from a user.
>>       - How was the architecture derived, what volume type used,
>>       options, etc?
>>       - What were the major issues faced ? How to improve them?
>>       - What worked good?
>>       - How can we all collaborate well, so it is win-win for the
>>       community and the user? How can we
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Community>Community
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Any release updates?
>>    -
>>
>>    Blocker issues across the project?
>>    -
>>
>>    Metrics
>>    - Number of new bugs since previous meeting. How many are not triaged?
>>       - Number of emails, anything unanswered?
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Conferences--Meetups>Conferences
>> / Meetups
>>
>>    - Any conference in next 1 month where gluster-developers are going?
>>    gluster-users are going? So we can meet and discuss.
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#Developer-focus>Developer
>> focus
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Any design specs to discuss?
>>    -
>>
>>    Metrics of the week?
>>    - Coverity
>>       - Clang-Scan
>>       - Number of patches from new developers.
>>       - Did we increase test coverage?
>>       - [Atin] Also talk about most frequent test failures in the CI and
>>       carve out an AI to get them fixed.
>>
>> <https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g?both#RoundTable>RoundTable
>>
>>    - <Open for anything which is not covered in agenda>
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Regards,
>> Amar
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 8:53 PM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <
>> atumball at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback Darrell,
>>>
>>> The new proposal is to have one in North America 'morning' time. (10AM
>>> PST), And another in ASIA day time, which is evening 7pm/6pm in Australia,
>>> 9pm Newzealand, 5pm Tokyo, 4pm Beijing.
>>>
>>> For example, if we choose Every other Tuesday for meeting, and 1st of
>>> the month is Tuesday, we would have North America time for 1st, and on 15th
>>> it would be ASIA/Pacific time.
>>>
>>> Hopefully, this way, we can cover all the timezones, and meeting minutes
>>> would be committed to github repo, so that way, it will be easier for
>>> everyone to be aware of what is happening.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Amar
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 8:40 PM Darrell Budic <budic at onholyground.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a user, I’d like to visit more of these, but the time slot is my
>>>> 3AM. Any possibility for a rolling schedule (move meeting +6 hours each
>>>> week with rolling attendance from maintainers?) or an occasional regional
>>>> meeting 12 hours opposed to the one you’re proposing?
>>>>
>>>>   -Darrell
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 25, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <
>>>> atumball at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> We currently have 3 meetings which are public:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Maintainer's Meeting
>>>>
>>>> - Runs once in 2 weeks (on Mondays), and current attendance is around
>>>> 3-5 on an avg, and not much is discussed.
>>>> - Without majority attendance, we can't take any decisions too.
>>>>
>>>> 2. Community meeting
>>>>
>>>> - Supposed to happen on #gluster-meeting, every 2 weeks, and is the
>>>> only meeting which is for 'Community/Users'. Others are for developers
>>>> as of now.
>>>> Sadly attendance is getting closer to 0 in recent times.
>>>>
>>>> 3. GCS meeting
>>>>
>>>> - We started it as an effort inside Red Hat gluster team, and opened it
>>>> up for community from Jan 2019, but the attendance was always from RHT
>>>> members, and haven't seen any traction from wider group.
>>>>
>>>> So, I have a proposal to call out for cancelling all these meeting,
>>>> and keeping just 1 weekly 'Community' meeting, where even topics
>>>> related to maintainers and GCS and other projects can be discussed.
>>>>
>>>> I have a template of a draft template @
>>>> https://hackmd.io/OqZbh7gfQe6uvVUXUVKJ5g
>>>>
>>>> Please feel free to suggest improvements, both in agenda and in
>>>> timings. So, we can have more participation from members of community,
>>>> which allows more user - developer interactions, and hence quality of
>>>> project.
>>>>
>>>> Waiting for feedbacks,
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Amar
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>>>
>>
>>
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