Virtual sprint? Ideas?

Martin von Zweigbergk martinvonz at google.com
Thu Sep 24 14:49:13 UTC 2020


Pierre-Yves said on chat that we usually try to do the sprint right after a
release. That would mean the week of November 2. Sounds good?

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:04 PM Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz at google.com>
wrote:

> I created a wiki page for the sprint:
> https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/5.6Sprint. It's just my attempt to
> move the discussion forward. Please fill in your availability there if it
> seems like a good idea, or let me know what you think we should change (or
> make the edits yourself if they're uncontroversial, of course).
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 6:56 AM Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI: Based on the guidance we're getting, I'd be very surprised to see
>> Google allow work-related travel before 2021.
>>
>> On Jun 25, 2020, at 08:44, Pierre-Yves David <
>> pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>>
>> We should probably have the next in person sprint as soon as the internal
>> travel situation get reasonable again (+2 month to let people plan travel).
>> I am not sure when this will be and there is a risk it would push us later
>> than October :-/
>>
>> The situation in Europe seems to improves slowly and intra-european
>> border à reopenning, so we might grab the opportunity to have as small
>> local print for people who leave in that area.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On 6/22/20 6:11 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 11:49, Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz at google.com <
>> mailto:martinvonz at google.com <martinvonz at google.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea to me!
>>
>> When do we want to do the next sprint? I think it would make sense to
>> have one sooner than the usual ~October time frame since we missed the
>> spring one. That should probably be possible since we won't need to plan
>> travel.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 5:26 AM Raphaël Gomès <raphael.gomes at octobus.net
>> <mailto:raphael.gomes at octobus.net <raphael.gomes at octobus.net>>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi there,
>>
>>    I think keeping the global sprint going even if in a new format is
>>    a good idea, but considering the obvious timezone issues we need
>>    to be quite organized if we want to do anything real-time.
>>
>>    Here's an idea: let's build up a list of all the main topics we
>>    want to discuss, estimate roughly how much time we want to
>>    allocate to them, then try to fit time slots when we can video
>>    chat about them in order of importance, keeping notes of what's
>>    been said. That could be the basis for a mailing-list discussion
>>    thread for longer-term discussion and ideas from people who
>>    couldn't join for that topic.
>>    The question remains about how sparse we want these discussions to
>>    be. I see value in having a dedicated few days/week for
>>    kickstarting the discussions as opposed to a month-long "let's
>>    call each other sometimes" to stay in the groove. This will
>>    obviously be more sparse than if we were to meet IRL, but I think
>>    a denser format is better.
>>
>>    I'm afraid that just going for a more free-format discussion will
>>    not work through earth-wide videoconferencing.
>>
>>    Does that sound like a good idea?
>>    Raphaël
>>
>>    On 5/20/20 1:42 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>
>>    Howdy folks,
>>
>>    Normally we’d have wrapped up a sprint not too long ago and have given
>> some thought to a NA location sprint. Given the circumstances around
>> coronavirus and the (extremely vague!) guidance most of us have
>> (presumably) gotten from our employers and/or governments, I think it’s
>> time to start trying to figure out what a virtual sprint might look like.
>> I’ll miss the whiteboard etc time with y’all, but I’d really like to get a
>> chance to discuss longer-term projects and try to make some decisions about
>> whatever needs deciding as a group.
>>
>>    Thoughts?
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>    Augie
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