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ddaaSteveA: ping11:19
ddaathumper: ping11:19
ddaaLet's talk here11:19
thumperhere11:19
ddaaso I won't mispresent SteveA11:19
SteveAhi11:19
ddaaThumper said:11:19
ddaa(23:19:04) thumper: I don't feel a particularly desperate desire to be part of it if it's not necessary11:20
ddaaMy notes about this sprint say11:20
ddaaMention to poolie & tim:11:20
ddaa* Sprint 2 weeks .au in feb. or mar.11:20
thumperI also said:11:20
thumper[11:17]  <thumper> the chance of me getting over there is remote to minimal due to my wife killing me11:20
thumper[11:17]  <thumper> perhaps we could get jml over here11:20
thumperthat is if I'm needed11:20
ddaajml... Jonathan?11:20
thumperyep11:20
ddaaha right11:21
thumperjml is his nick on freenode11:21
ddaaSo, I said .au or .nz makes no difference for me.11:21
SteveAkiko and I are thinking about planning sprints for various launchpad teams11:21
thumperjust to let you know, I have to head off in about 15 min11:21
SteveAthe first question is whether there are things to achieve at a team in-person meeting11:21
ddaaOkay let's be quick just to sync with thumper11:22
SteveAthen, to decide when, where and who11:22
SteveAif a meeting will be valuable, then getting ddaa down under is possible, and ddaa said he can be easily available for a 2 week trip11:23
SteveAso, that's something to consider11:23
SteveAbut, I'm not saying that I favour it for its own sake11:23
thumperfair enough11:23
ddaathumper: the other thing I wanted to tell you about11:24
SteveAit may be that there's enough back-end improving work for ddaa to do that a trip and meeting isn't useful for a while11:25
ddaaI mentioned that an increasing part of my import herding work is triaging import requests. As the system becomes more popular, more vcs details are entered by users who do not understand the implications and the launchpad best practices.11:25
ddaaSo SteveA suggested that I come to Amsterdam next week, in particular to have some face time with matthewrevell to write documentation at which we can point users when an import request cannot go forward without reformulating it.11:27
thumperSteveA: there is the desire to get ddaa to spread the import knowledge more11:27
thumperddaa: sounds like a very good idea to get more available docs11:27
SteveAwhich import knowledge in particular?11:27
SteveAwe'll have a launchpad ops-admin person soon, who should learn how to roll out the importd stuff, and monitor it11:27
SteveAand understand how it does error reporting11:27
thumperwhat runs where and when, and how do fix things when things go wrong11:27
thumperSteveA: I didn't know about the launchpad-ops person11:28
SteveAso, at the level of services running correctly, that's something for the ops person to learn11:28
thumperthey should understand it all11:28
SteveAhe'll be working for james troup11:28
thumperSteveA: agreeed11:28
ddaaSteveA: regarding my personal constraints, I'm available starting next monday morning.11:28
SteveAas far as higher level stuff, to do with launchpad, database data, or VCS stuff going wrong11:28
SteveAthat's something where we'll want to have damn good error reporting coming out from the importd systems11:29
SteveAso, I don't think it's important for jml to learn about detail of how the imports system works11:29
=== ddaa dreams of a world were a list classified import failures is maintained automatically.
SteveAthumper: I spoke to elmo today and we talked about your access to vostok, which will be granted soon11:29
SteveAgood dream11:30
thumperSteveA: good11:30
SteveAI think it will be helpful for you to help ddaa work out good ways to make that dream come true11:30
SteveAthat is, I think the access to vostok will help you understand the systems11:30
SteveAso you can assist in that11:30
thumperok11:30
SteveAultimately, you and ddaa should not need to use the systems much directly11:31
SteveAas that'll become the ops person's job11:31
thumperI agree with that11:31
SteveAthere will actually be 2 ops people11:31
SteveAso there will be holiday cover11:31
SteveAone person primarily for landscape, one primarily for launchpad11:31
SteveAbut being able to cover for each other11:31
thumpersounds like a damn fine idea11:31
SteveAtakes some load of stub too11:32
thumperhandholding server processes is not my idea of fun11:32
=== ddaa feels slightly intimitated at the idea of no longer working in a cosy start up, but in a large company with plenty of q&a, ops, PR, and business people.
SteveAso, ddaa and I were talking about getting decent error handling and error reporting into the systems11:32
SteveAas they currently are11:32
SteveAwithout doing a lot of refactoring first11:32
thumperddaa: at least it is growing organically, and you're not being dumped in it11:32
SteveAand as a matter of urgency11:33
SteveAddaa said he'd look at what can be done simply11:33
ddaathumper: I'm sure it's an interesting thing to watch and make happen.11:33
SteveAit's like a rollercoaster on the moon11:34
SteveAwithout seat restraints11:34
SteveApowered by cheese11:34
ddaathumper: SteveA drove a nail home about making things even more messy if necessary as long as we get error reporting.11:34
thumperddaa: fair enough, I'm happy with that11:34
thumperas long as it doesn't stay messy for ever11:34
SteveAddaa: you can still type one-handed, right?11:34
ddaathat's why I am reluctant. Anything that do not make messiness monotonously decreasing smells danger to me.11:35
SteveAthere's messiness and there's functioning correctly11:35
SteveAthey way I see it is we need to know how much we're functioning correctly11:36
thumperI don't think that there would be a big increase in mess11:36
SteveAso that when we improve the messiness11:36
thumperjust not a decrease11:36
thumperI'm ok with that11:36
SteveAwe know we're not doing so at the expense of QOS11:36
ddaaSteveA: don't worry, I'm sold to the idea of getting a better hold on how the thing work.11:36
thumperguys, I've gotta go11:36
ddaaIf only to make the boss feel less anxious about it.11:36
SteveAcool, catch you later11:36
ddaathumper: cya, the two sprint things are what I wanted to ping you about.11:37
SteveAthanks for delivering the summary of our conversation ddaa11:37
ddaaSteveA: thanks for fixing my inaccuracies11:37

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