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* pleia2 waves17:00
czajkowskialoha17:01
* vibhav waves17:02
funkyHatHello17:02
Tm_Thi funkee17:02
* funkyHat o/17:03
vibhavTm_T: Irc council? :)17:03
Tm_Tvibhav: yes?17:03
YokoZarHello17:04
dholbachhi17:04
AlanBello/17:04
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cprofitt#startmeeting17:09
meetingologyMeeting started Thu Feb 21 17:09:05 2013 UTC.  The chair is cprofitt. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.17:09
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pleia2hello17:09
cprofittHello everyone and welcome to the CC meeting17:09
cprofitttoday we will be touching base with the IRC Council and Developer Advisory Team17:09
dholbachI see we have a number of IRC Council people here. :)17:09
cprofittare people here from IRC Council?17:09
* cprofitt smiles17:10
dholbachAnd a bit fewer DAT people too. :)17:10
AlanBellhi cprofitt17:10
Tm_Tmoin17:10
topylio/17:10
funkyHatHello17:10
Tm_Tall but one from ircc, nice17:10
cprofittgreat, lets start with the IRC Council17:10
cprofitt#topic IRC Council17:10
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cprofitt#chair czajkowski dholbach pleia2 YokoZar17:11
meetingologyCurrent chairs: YokoZar cprofitt czajkowski dholbach pleia217:11
dholbachhow are you all doing? how has the cycle been for the IRC Council so far?17:11
czajkowskianyone can answer :)17:12
AlanBellhi dholbach, I think this cycle has been fine, a bit quieter than the previous one perhaps17:12
AlanBellwe did operator recruitment again, and k1l joined the team17:13
AlanBelldoing recruitment in line with the development cycles still seems to make sense to me17:13
dholbachAlanBell, was it because of less planned work for the cycle or because of less adhoc "let's get the IRC Council involved" requests?17:13
Tm_Tas I've been aboard on council for half a year, I've felt we've been basicly just doing what we always do, nothing special lately17:13
cprofittare all operator teams well staffed?17:14
AlanBellall operator teams seem appropriately staffed, we have not really had any issues of a lack of operators17:14
cprofittgood to hear17:14
AlanBelldholbach: a bit of both, we made some changes in the prior cycle and had stuff like the Lubuntu operators to bring in etc17:15
AlanBellone thing I want to look at soon is disaster recovery for ubottu.com, that server had some reliability issues before christmas and we are a bit more dependent on it than I would like to be17:15
* cprofitt nods17:16
dholbachdo the IRC Council is down to the bottom of their TODO list? :)17:16
czajkowskiAlanBell: do you feel it's a quieter cycle as it's the council has been organised and things are running smoothly ?17:16
AlanBellwell there is an email in my inbox now that has arrived on the todo list, I think you all have a copy of that too17:16
cprofittAlanBell: is ubottu currently a single server solution?17:16
Tm_Tcprofitt: yes17:16
AlanBelldon't really want to go through that until we have all read it17:17
cprofittAlanBell: yes, we got that email17:17
cprofittsame here AlanBell17:17
Tm_Tczajkowski: from long time ops POV I'd say we've quite estamblished team so things are bound to run rather smoothly17:17
cprofittTm_T: would you be looking at an HA solution or just a disaster recovery?17:17
AlanBelldisaster recovery17:17
Tm_T^17:17
czajkowskiTm_T: that's good to hear.17:18
czajkowskiAlanBell: is there anything the CC can help with ?17:18
AlanBellwe are cool with it being down for a few hours, but if it went and didn't come back we would be a bit annoyed17:18
AlanBellso we want a plan for that17:18
dholbachdo you have new community members helping out in the irc world?17:18
* cprofitt nods to AlanBell 17:18
Tm_TI wouldn't mind having more fresh blood in our ranks but as IRC administration is easily rather heavy duty I understand why we don't have that much changes17:18
Tm_Tdholbach: some, but more wouldn't hurt ^17:19
AlanBellthere are a few regular helpers who are not ops17:19
AlanBellsome don't really want to be ops, which is fair enough17:19
dholbachdid some of them take the ubuntu irc members route?17:20
czajkowskiTm_T: why do you say it's heavy duty ?17:20
AlanBellwe have yet to award a membership, but we do have M4V on our agenda as a membership application17:20
Tm_Tczajkowski: you know how high-paced #ubuntu can be and when we're doing our work we often face rather abusive response17:21
Tm_Tand sometimes decisions have to be done rather quickly17:21
* cprofitt nods at Tm_T 17:21
czajkowskiok17:21
Tm_TI would love to way a find to lower the barrier to get into our irc team activity, something that doesn't necessarily require op rights17:22
Tm_T+find17:22
cprofittTm_T: I think there is also a realization by ops that they often represent the face of Ubuntu to users on IRC and their actions will really reflect on the project as a whole17:22
Tm_Tcprofitt: that, very much so17:22
pleia2I think there was a UDS session that discussed some tasks others could take on, like bot wrangling and updating of docs17:23
Tm_Tyup, that's one thing17:24
dholbachdo you have a gut feeling for how well channels like #ubuntu are running, compared to earlier times? more/less bans? more/less complaints? more/less stress?17:24
cprofittgood question dholbach17:24
dholbachI just thought that the team must surely have gotten some experience over the last cycles, which probably helped17:25
dholbachbut yeah, just a gut feeling would be good to hear from you :)17:25
Tm_TI feel things are more settled these days as the community has matured somewhat, others might see it differently though ):17:25
AlanBellit goes up and down, we have 1859 users in there at the moment, which is quite a lot, I think the number of bans has probably gone down17:25
Tm_T(: even17:25
Tm_TI spend more time on other channels than #ubuntu so my perspective contains those too17:26
AlanBellI might try and do some stats on the frequency of bans and kicks issued17:26
Tm_TAlanBell: that would be nice17:26
AlanBellwe haven't done much time analysis on the data17:26
pleia2gut-wise I've felt things be a whole lot calmer in irc-land17:27
cprofittI would agree pleia217:27
Tm_Tpleia2: I have a feeling that our community has succeeded on creating an environment that helps on keeping bad behaviour limited (:17:27
pleia2I do see a fair amount of "I can't get help in #ubuntu" but that's really an issue with the size of the channel, it's not really possible to avoid17:27
pleia2Tm_T: yeah17:27
pleia2and plenty of people do get help in #ubuntu17:27
AlanBellthere are also good, more focussed channels17:28
AlanBelllike #ubuntu-tablet/phone/steam17:28
AlanBellso they are taking some of the chatter load out of #ubuntu17:28
pleia2that's good17:29
Tm_Tand flavour channels ofcourse17:29
dholbachis there anything the CC or the wider community could do to help?17:30
czajkowskiAlanBell: so now things are stable and working well, what would the IRC like to work on next?17:30
Tm_Tdholbach: I would love to improve communication between teams (hey, theme from UDS)17:31
Tm_TI bet there's many ways how irc team could help other teams17:31
dholbachTm_T, nice one17:32
Tm_Tmaybe we should advertise "we would love to help you, come and ask!" more or something17:32
pleia2:)17:32
dholbachmaybe a session at open week or user days too?17:33
dholbach(in case you haven't done one of these in a while)17:33
* AlanBell wonders if there is a QML IRC client17:33
Tm_Tdholbach: perhaps, but it would be nice to know what others would need from us there (:17:33
pleia2open week would be most appropriate, or stand alone sessions (I think we wanted some this cycle, but didn't get around to it yet)17:33
vibhavAlanBell: I plan on writing one :)17:34
pleia2Tm_T: aha, you have an action item :) https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-r-irc-workshops17:34
Tm_TI do17:35
Tm_Tbut yeah, more of those would be good17:36
dholbachany more questions? :)17:37
* dholbach is all set17:37
czajkowskilikewise17:37
cprofittI am as well17:37
czajkowskias we do have another board to get through17:37
cprofitt#topic Developer Advisory Team17:38
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AlanBellperhaps some CC folk could pop into #ubuntu-irc-council later to chat about the email we received17:38
cprofittwelcome Developer Advisory Team!17:38
cprofittAlanBell: will do17:38
czajkowskisure17:38
dholbachvibhav, _o/\o_17:38
dholbachhello hello :-D17:38
dholbachgot any questions for us? :)17:38
czajkowskialoha :)17:38
cprofittso how has this cycle been for the team?17:39
czajkowskidholbach: well I don't know much about the board, but I have seen it get involved in some discussion on the DMB, so I'm curious to know who the team is interacting with others and making progress?17:39
dholbachwhat the DAT does is mostly reaching out to development contributors... to folks who just got their first patch into Ubuntu, so we can welcome them, help them and ask for their feedback17:40
vibhavo/17:40
dholbachbut we also talk to more experienced people, ask for their feedback, help them apply for upload rights if we feel they're ready17:40
dholbachand reach out to inactive folks as wlel17:40
dholbachwell17:40
vibhavczajkowski: We recently had a meeting and we decided to work on some few targets17:40
dholbachwe brought vibhav and jokerdino on board a couple of months ago, which was necessary as some of our old members got quite active with life17:41
dholbachthe idea about working more closely with the DMB was in order to help developers who can apply for upload rights soon17:41
vibhavWe also aim to help members who are rejected17:42
dholbachIain Lane brought up the idea and we felt that it'd make sense to have a chat before folks apply, so we can either help fix the application or just take a bit more time until they apply17:42
czajkowskiaye Laney does get some good ideas alright :)17:42
Laneymeow17:42
pleia2:)17:42
vibhavczajkowski: Indeed17:42
czajkowskidholbach: I see the DAT focuses a lot on the develpers who are already involved, how do you get new people who may be involved locally at loco level to take the plunge17:43
dholbachthat's nothing the DAT looks into really - we're mostly reacting to other people's contributions or lack of contributions I guess17:44
czajkowskiah I see17:44
vibhavczajkowski: dholbach maintains a list of New developers which is automatically updated17:44
ScottKdholbach: It might make sense to review the applications on the next DMB meeting agenda and proactively give feedback to applicants if warrented.17:44
cprofitt+1 ScottK17:44
dholbachScottK, nice one17:44
ScottK(fwiw, we have a meeting Monday)17:44
dholbachI'm in the middle of the craziest of weeks, but I'll add something to my list17:45
dholbachand share it with the rest of the team17:45
ScottKThat would also avoid it looking like talk with the DAT before applying is an actual part of the application process.17:45
dholbachno17:46
dholbachI never said that17:46
ScottKI understand.17:46
dholbachit's not necessary and shouldn't be. :-)17:46
cprofittIs there anythink the CC can do to assist the DAT?17:46
dholbachgood question :)17:47
dholbachvibhav, what do you think?17:47
dholbachvibhav, do we maybe need more hands on deck? :)17:47
vibhavdholbach: sure17:47
dholbachthat's the only thing I can really think of17:47
vibhavWe need people to help put with dat v217:47
dholbachwe should probably start a call for contributors some time soon again17:47
dholbachyes, that too17:47
dholbachdat v2 is the tool we're working on to help us track contributions17:48
cprofittinteresting sounding tool17:48
dholbachwe've in the process of moving off of something horrible to something nice and django based17:48
vibhavThe current tool we use is a bit broken17:48
dholbachbut as we're all involved in all kinds of other teams, we didn't really get much done yet17:48
dholbachAndrew SB is putting some work into it right now17:49
dholbachvibhav, I'll add something to my list, so we can talk about a call for help soon17:49
vibhavPerfect17:49
dholbach:)17:49
czajkowskii take it some level of technical developer is needed in order to help out17:49
dholbachwith the dat v2 yes, in general to help out the team not necessarily, although it help if you have a bit of an understanding about ubuntu development or how the development teams here work17:50
vibhavdholbach had written a small spec for dat v217:51
vibhavhttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-r-dev-advisory-team17:51
dholbachvibhav, I'll have a chat with Andrew SB about it - once we have reliable data it should be much more fun to help out :)17:51
czajkowskiIs there a way the CC can help ?17:52
dholbachnot right now, but we might reach out to the CC some time in the future17:52
vibhavI think reaching out for new contributors for dat v2 can help17:52
vibhavExcept that, we're quite fine as a team :)17:53
czajkowskinods17:54
czajkowskiok17:54
czajkowskithanks17:54
czajkowski:)17:54
vibhav:)17:55
czajkowskiok any other comments folks before we move on ?17:56
dholbachmore questions? Otherwise I'd think that's a wrap. :)17:56
czajkowskigoing once17:56
czajkowskitwice17:56
czajkowskigone17:56
czajkowski:)17:56
czajkowski#topic AOB17:56
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czajkowskianyting else we need to look at folks17:57
pleia2I don't think so17:57
czajkowskiI know the IRC wants to follow up on stuff we can do that after the meeting or later on17:57
czajkowskiour trello looks up to date17:57
czajkowski#endmeeting17:57
dholbachI'm all set17:57
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dholbachthanks a bunch everyone!17:57
cprofittthanks for coming everyone!17:58
czajkowskicheers17:58
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