KStars Developers Hangout #1

[Hy Murveit]

I'd be happy to attend the 2nd monthly meeting!

I know Jasem was disappointed by the lack of action after the 1st, but for
me it was a positive experience just getting to know people and
understanding a bit more about the project.

I don't know if I can make an agenda from the past minutes. How about a
change of pace, and have a single topic meeting.  It would have to be a
topic that is of general interest--that is, I could spend an hour talking
about some project I'm doing, but I'm afraid that wouldn't be too
interesting for everyone else.

I think it would need to be something like (these are only examples, please
provide your own):
- KStars 2020 plan, or
- release cycle
- how to do code reviews/merge-requests
- how to document,
- how can we get to more automated testing,
- how to get more people interested in developing, or
- whether we want to get more people interested in developing, or ...
- how do we better understand users, get data on what they're using/doing,
- big new feature areas
- should we tear apart module X and start over?
- how do we keep the forum civil
- should we have a "code yellow" on topic X (where we all drop what we
normally would do, and focus for a period of time on some important but
under-loved topic. At Google we had these related to test coverage,
refactoring, speed-ups, ...).
- ...

A concrete proposal is for any/all of us to have, say 1 week, to submit
emails detailing what topic we love, and what there is to discuss in that
topic. I strongly feel some up-front written info to think about would be
helpful for the live discussion. After that week, we spend the next week
voting on the topic (e.g. everyone picks their top 2, with 3 points for #1
and 1 point for #2) then tally up the votes, then have the meeting and
discuss.

How does that sound? It only works if people actually (a) send in topics,
and (b) are interested in attending with said topic.

Alternatively, we can have another group discussion, which can also be fun.

Hy

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 2:52 AM Eric Dejouhanet <eric.dejouhanet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
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> Sorry for being so late to the minutes (it took me ages to restore my
> subscription), it was a real pleasure to talk with you all too.
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> In order to increase the accessibility of the mailing list, I propose we
> use the Badges functionality of the brand new invent.kde.org. Shields.io
> offers a long list of small predefined and customizable badges that we
> could add to the front page of the project.
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> Could we arrange a new conference in June ?
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> We said it would be better to set it in the evening for US and morning for
> EU. I propose we continue to use the Google Meet or Hangout systems unless
> you have other preferences.
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> Although my network line is small, I can also research how to record the
> meeting (I’m a noob at this).
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> Hy, would you propose an agenda from Jasem’s minutes ?
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> -Eric
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> - eric.dejouhanet at gmail.com – https://astronomy.dejouha.net
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