Re: 2020 team sprint

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 09:14:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 21:06:58 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote:
> 
> > If it's useful, I can provide access to a well provisioned Jitsi
> > instance if that's any help for the planned sprint. Can't be sure of
> > my daily availability in May though until nearer the time.
> 
> Thanks, I guess a well-run jitsi instance is very welcome.

I should have one of those to hand by then, too, FWIW.
(We should be a bit careful with sharing links, it's only a matter of
time before Jitsi instances get bombed by harmful trolls too).

> Yesterday on IRC, we had a brief brainstorming around the sprint:
> 
> 21:25 <gregoa> so, about the sprint
> 21:25 <gregoa> the idea was to have some online version of it at the
>                dates of the planned meatspace sprint (mid-may IIRC)
> 21:26 <gregoa> https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2020/04/msg00002.html
> 21:26 <gregoa> intri nodens knowledgejunkie and me showed some
>                interest, knowledgejunkie offered a jitsi instance
> 21:26 <gregoa> I guess that's a good enough start :)
> 21:27 <gregoa> I haven't really thought hard about the design only so
>                far: I guess 2-4 days of permanent jitsiing is not
>                possible (and also not what we do when we are at the
>                same place)
> 21:28 <gregoa> maybe we could start with a video meeting on friday
>                evening both for "sharing" a beer and for planning the
>                sprint
> 21:28 <nodens> I guess the usual "have coffee and standup in the
>                morning, then whatever" works
> 21:28 <gregoa> and then on saturday work alone/in groups and
>                coordinate again via video at some point
> 21:28 <nodens> gregoa, that would work for me
> 21:29 <gregoa> nodens: right, something like that. - and in the past
>                we sometimes (not at each sprint) had short discussion
>                sessions or questions or demos
> 21:29 <nodens> yep
> 21:30 <gregoa> probably it helps if people collect ideas for working
>                (together) beforehand
> 
> (Ok, mostly tired /me rambling but also tired nodens [0] agreeing.)
> 
> The original date and the Friday/Saturday mentioned above would be
> 15th and 16th May.
> 
> 
> Feedback welcome, and if the rough ideas don't sound crazy we could
> probably write it down a bit more structured on a wiki page, as usual
> :)

Thanks for the summary, this sounds great! And yes, video beerplanning
on Friday evening sounds good followed by work on Saturday (and Sunday
if people want).

Cheers
Dominic.