Dreamwidth Development

Well, I managed to sleep through the meeting and mark was fixing the database comment limits problem, so the meeting started a little late. (It's a good thing we're cute?)

Here's the log, lightly redacted to remove discussion of personal and offtopic stuff (and to remove irc administrivia like joins and parts). We'll do this again in a few weeks!

( Meeting log )

We've spoken in the past about having semi-regular dev meetings in irc, where everybody who's interested can gather in #dreamwidth-dev and have a conversation about what we're working on, what our priorities are, what interesting things have happened, what problems we've run into that others can learn from, what questions we've had itching at us that haven't been answered yet, what kind of help we can use, help-wanted requests for for a pair programmer/UI specialist/frontend person/backend person/someone to crack the whip/someone to bounce ideas off of/etc. (Not to mention, "let's bug denise about stuff we need that hasn't been done yet"!)

fu, mark, and I have all had periods of feeling really isolated and disconnected from each other and from you guys lately, so we're going to give this a try on a pilot basis. 'Staff meetings' will be held every few weeks. We'll log the channel during the meeting, and post the logs afterwards, so those who can't make a particular meeting or those who can't/don't use irc can still get the information. Because of the international nature of our contributor base and the fact that many of us have weird sleep schedules, the meeting times will rotate: if the times for meeting #1 are more convenient for EU people, we'll try to make the next meeting more convenient for US people and the one after that for AU people, etc.

Anyone who does any kind of DW work is welcome -- this isn't dev-specific, but at first we'll definitely be dev-focused, since we have a few ideas we'd like to start exploring for the dev process and we'd like to encourage more collaboration and team programming.

For the first meeting, I've picked a few random-ish times next weekend to try to find one that will work for the majority of people. If you are interested in attending, please fill out the Doodle poll linked below, with your DW username and the times that you would be available to attend! (If you have accessibility problems with it, let me know privately and I'll add your information for you -- I don't know how Doodle is on accessibility.) The poll has 9 separate times, chosen more-or-less at random/on a whim with a US-based audience in mind this time. By default the poll "accordion-collapses", so hit the accordion fold to expand it and get all the times.

Please vote by Tuesday; we'll set the time then. "Yes" means you'd definitely be able to attend at that time, "No" means you'd definitely not be able to attend at that time, and "(Yes)" means you might be able to attend but it would be inconvenient for you. The times should theoretically update to account for timezones (going by your IP and the reported geolocation thereof) but if that doesn't work for you, the poll was created in EDT; to tell if your timezone is being accurately set, the first option is 27 April at 8PM EDT. You don't need a Doodle account to answer the poll.

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