Re: [Debconf-team] Suggestions for improving our IRC meetings
Hi!
Thanks Marga for following up.
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 12:51:42PM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> On 03.03.2015 11:46, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> > For future meetings I plan to:
> >
> > 1) When there seems to be agreement on something but it's not 100% clear do:
> >
> > marga suggests: #agreed we should do foo/bar/baz
> >
> > And then people can state clearly if they don't agree. This is not just
> > for me, anyone can suggest an agreement. It usually helps if we try to
> > formulate what we agree on, so that we stop discussing things that
> > everyone already is ok with, and so that people with concerns can raise
> > objections explicitly about the part that they don't agree with.
>
I would then suggest to differentiate between the final #agreed and previous
(possible multiple) #proposed?
And really only state an agreement when there is one, to avoid confusion.
> I also find that sometime I'm trying to write an answer and topic/agree
> were moved before I can press RETURN.
>
+1
> > 2) If the discussion goes on long after it was slotted to finish,
> > suggest that we should follow up on a different medium (on list,
> > follow-up IRC meeting, phonecall, whatever).
>
> A meeting should be allowed to take as much as 1.5 x the programmed
> meeting, and in this period all items in agenda should be discussed (but
> when they are clearly postpone-able). So if a discussion take to long,
> we need to block it before it take the time from other agenda items.
>
> But there are many exceptions. Yesterday we agree to open registration
> today, so that agenda item took more time, because of many details. So
> our meeting rules don't be too strict. In future we will have to deal
> with many more deadlines.
>
> IMHO we should also avoid to move too much discussion away from
> meetings: there is more risk to have no decision, but with too long
> discussions (which will be repeated on many different channels).
>
I'm not sure about 1.5 x the expected duration, but IMHO a 10-20 min overflow
allowance would be good. I'm not saying that we should make all meetings
longer, but in cases that we can't reach an agreement on time, being a bit
late wouldn't be the end of the world.
Tassia.
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