Brennan Stehling wrote:
All, (Thomas especially)
What would be a good day (or night) to meet to have our first online meeting?
My suggestion is Sunday, 21. Jan or Sunday 28. Jan. We could start at 18:00h or 20:00h GMT in order to have most contributers awake. Other suggestions are welcome.
This is what I would like to set as the agenda.
* Component breakdown (UI, IMAP, PHP, Javascript) * Teams leads by component (volunteers wanted) * Ticket management (delegated from Thomas to each team lead and how to prioritize) * Training (how to get each developer/tester prepared to contribute to the project)
Agree.
My best time is over the weekend. I would like to hold this over Skype which will allow us to talk as well as IM each other. I can record my screen during this meeting and make it available for anyone who wants to view it later. Of course if you cannot make it for the meeting we can continue the discussion in the RC forums the week following the meeting.
IRC would be an option as well. I'm not sure if everybody is willing to publish his Skype name. There's a #roundcube room registered at freenode. I vote for IRC because everybody can just enter the discussion easily.
Every contributor is pleased to add his name here: http://trac.roundcube.net/trac.cgi/wiki/Dev_Members
You can also create a detail page (as I did) with additional information about your skills, location (with timezone) and contact details.
I understand we are all in different timezones, so it may make sense to try to assign teams based on location. Once the teams are in place there can be team meetings at a more appropriate team for their region. Before each meeting the team lead can post the agenda for the meeting along with the time. And after each meeting the team lead will post a summary of the discussion to keep everyone up to date.
I'm not sure if the number of contributors is big enough to divide it into several teams. We'll see.
I will simply act as a facilitator. I am pretty well experienced with most of the technologies used in RC. I will do what I can to coordinate efforts to help offload some of the work done by Thomas and the team leads so they can focus on coding.
Your help is much appreciated! Tanks so far.
Regards, Thomas