April irc dev meeting

[denise]

The Doodle poll has spoken, and the time that works for the most people unfortunately doesn't work for mark, so we'll be using the second-most-popular time:

Saturday 28 April 9PM EDT - 11PM EDT (1AM GMT - 3AM GMT)

My apologies to those of you in EU timezones; our next meeting will be scheduled to be more convenient for y'all!

The meeting will begin precisely at 9PM EDT in irc (irc.freenode.net, channel #dreamwidth-dev) and will definitely run for at least two hours (if discussion is going well, we may continue a little past the 11PM end time). The meeting will be logged and logs will be publicly posted (lightly edited) to dw_dev afterwards.

If you have anything in particular you'd like to put on the agenda for discussion, leave a comment. Otherwise, the agenda will be "let's all talk about awesome things we are doing".

Comments

[mark]

I will be there with bells on.

Edit: the thing I want to discuss is any issues people have been having with the current development environment (social...not technical) and if we can make some improvements to make development work better for people.

I also want to put on the agenda, if there is time:

* Scrapping all existing APIs in favor of a modern, RESTful, JSON based API. (Note: we'd keep the old ones for backwards compatibility for a while, but cease improving them.)

* Discuss possibly moving our development to GitHub. (Probably not our Bugzilla, but maybe also bug tracking?)

Uh, probably other things. I need to have made a list when I was thinking about this, not just wing it...

[pauamma]

Hmm, I would really like to take part in the discussion of some of those, not just read about them later. Will those items be revisited during the next meeting? 3-5am is really not ideal.

[mark]

They will if someone brings them up, yes! So next time, you are welcome to revisit things if you want to have a more realtime discussion.

Alternately, after the initial discussion is posted, you can join in where it's posted, start a new post, or do some non-group discussion on IRC (i.e., just flag me down and I'm happy to chat if I'm free).

This meeting is not designed to be the "one true place for discussion". It's more of a "let's get people together and chat" kind of thing.

[pauamma]

That works, thanks.

[kareila]

Aww, I will be at a symphony concert. But I haven't done anything awesome recently anyway. :P

[alierak]

Shoot, didn't see that on the calendar.

[vampwillow]

Just an FYI, but iirc when you posted the poll you said you thought it automatically changed the times to suit the timezone of the viewer? It didn't (though I, for one, answered as though it did. Others may have too) ;-P

(Just re-read the original post - mea culpa, I didn't see the check-first-col info)

[denise]

Yeah, the site tries to set your timezone by your IP address's geolocation information, but if it can't figure it out, it defaults to whatever was input originally. I'll try to make that more clear in the next poll!