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Let's do it in January? Like you said: January 7th, 20 CET?

niedz., 27 gru 2020 o 08:22 Emmet O'Neill <emmetoneill.pdx at gmail.com>
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> Hey all, are you still planning on having a testing day on the 27th?
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:55 PM Emmet O'Neill <emmetoneill.pdx at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think we should wait until the new year to start, since the next few
>> weeks are quite busy and I expect most people will be taking at least some
>> time off over the next 2-3 weeks.
>> I know it depends where you are in the world, but I don't think people
>> should feel compelled to do this kind of thing in the middle of the
>> holiday. Just bake some cookies instead, eh?
>> As important as testing is, it's equally important that people have some
>> time to take *real* breaks. Including habitual support-givers and
>> MR-testers. ;)
>>
>> I'm not totally opposed to the 27th, but what do you all think about the *first
>> thursday of the month*, starting on *January 7th* *@ 20:00CET*?
>> It might be a good way to start out the new year and start thinking about
>> our plans and goals for Krita 5 in 2021.
>>
>> > This is great thing to do. Some how i missed it in the meeting. Will it
>>> be
>>> > open for only developers? Will it be for whole day?
>>>
>>
>> You may have missed it because we were having some issues with Matrix IRC
>> bridging...
>>
>> Anyway, it's Krita, so of course it'll be open to anybody to participate
>> if they can and want to. The more the merrier. :)
>>
>> Right now we have a number of full-time developers, so the idea is to
>> take a small chunk of that time to actually use and test the program for
>> ourselves.
>> Because when we are singularly focused on squashing the next bug in the
>> list, or making the next change to our MR,
>> It's very easy to spend all of your time and mental energy on the code in
>> the IDE, and not on the program itself.
>> Ultimately, it does cost us a few developer hours, but I think it'll have
>> a return of better vision, more ideas, and a better feel for what we're
>> working towards.
>> (If it's not worth the time, we drop it and try something else after a
>> few months. But I think it will.)
>>
>> While working it would be nice to take notes, whether it's "fix this
>> annoying widget behavior here" or "wouldn't it be nice if this tool could
>> do that"...
>>
>> After some talk, it seemed
>>> like we should try to (voluntarily) organize on BBB, everyone turns on
>>> screen sharing and you know, we'll just draw and chat a bit.
>>>
>>
>> I'm all for this, and starting at 20:00CET would work fine for Eoin and
>> I, since that's around the time we usually.
>> I do think that the diversity of timezones (coupled with everybody
>> working on their own schedule) will make virtually organizing pretty hard
>> to pull off.
>> There's no harm in trying it out though, even if people just pop in and
>> out whenever they can. I have a feeling it'll get lonely for Eoin and I
>> later in the day. lol
>>
>> We won't be stuck with anything, so if things don't work out well we can
>> always adapt.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:23 AM Raghavendra Kamath <raghu at raghukamath.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 15 December, 2020 6:11:42 PM IST Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>>>
>>> > That would be 20:00 CET -- that can work for me, though might be a bit
>>> late
>>> > for Raghukamath...
>>>
>>> Yes that would be midnight for me, but I think if everyone is
>>> comfortable with
>>> the time I have no problem :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Raghukamath
>>>
>>>
>>>
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