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[John Dickinson <me@xxxxxx>]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jonathan Bryce wrote:

> Thanks John for bringing this up and everyone for the input. This is good feedback. Here are a couple of my thoughts on it:
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> 1) I agree that the meetings get rather chaotic at times. I would say that most of the time that situation is less related to non-PPB users and more related to those of us who are PPB members talking over each other. I can easily be more proactive about quieting down community members who might be drawing us off track. I don't think muting is actually a requirement for that. Thierry's suggestion around +v for those who want to have input may be a good implementation if just asking for cooperation doesn't solve it for community feedback. I'd also ask that we try to have more orderly discussions among ourselves and not just a speed-typing death battle royale.

I like this.

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> 2) I will start sending out a summary note to the full OpenStack list after meetings to try to have everyone be more informed and aware of what we're discussing.
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> 3) Along the lines of getting community feedback, do you all think that we should move to a two-part process where we discuss, send to a summary to the community requesting comments and then vote? Should we just try to gather feedback before we ever discuss?

I'd suggest that for most things the order doesn't matter. However, if the PPB discusses big things first, perhaps we can limit the scope of the discussion and therefore actually get more consensus from the community. For example, with VCS discussions, the community discussion could be limited to A vs B rather than "What's teh new hotness that all the ninja rockstar programmers are using?"

--John

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