[yt-dev] yt team meeting tomorrow

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 29 14:10:26 PDT 2015


Hi MIke,

I'll be there Friday afternoon, but probably not any other time.

-Matt

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Michael Zingale
<michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> HI Britton, I meant to find time to call in, but couldn't today.
>
> But I'm curious -- is anyone going to SciPy next week?  I'm going for the
> conference days, mainly to see what others are doing for teaching
> computational science / python classes, but it would be nice to get together
> with other yt-ers there.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> My apologies for the confusion.  I should explain how these meetings get
>> scheduled and I am open to suggestions on how to improve things.
>>
>> As per the Team Infrastructure YTEP
>> (https://ytep.readthedocs.org/en/latest/YTEPs/YTEP-1776.html), monthly
>> meetings are to be held with the project subcomponent leaders present.  I am
>> currently designated as the coordinator of those meetings.  I have dropped
>> the ball for a few months now and we have not had a meeting since February.
>> Currently, there are 95 people on the yt-dev list, so when it comes to
>> scheduling the meeting, I only send a doodle poll to the official
>> subcomponent leaders.  Once a time has been picked, an invitation is sent to
>> yt-dev.  On this specific occasion, the meeting time was only established
>> last night, so the announcement came with very little notice.
>>
>> My goal is to make the meeting as inclusive as possible while also
>> ensuring that people who are most likely to contribute are able to come.  My
>> current method obviously leaves out a lot of people, like yourself, who are
>> not listed as leads but would, more likely than not, like to be at the
>> meeting.  One solution would be for more people to volunteer for leadership
>> positions.  At this point, the sole duty for each lead has been to show up
>> at the meeting.  Another would be to make more positions, or to have a
>> general "board member"-like designation.  Maybe I just need to announce the
>> meeting with more warning, which I usually try to do and will try harder to
>> do in the future.
>>
>> Anyway, I am open to suggestions on how to improve this process and I
>> apologize for leaving anyone out.
>>
>> Britton
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:02 PM, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Britton,
>>>
>>> I'm a little concerned that this meeting may not be representative. From
>>> the lack of responses to the email, it's not clear to me how many of us are
>>> available for the hangout. Also, I at least was not aware that we were doing
>>> this today until yesterday.
>>>
>>> I somehow missed the fact that we had a Doodle poll to decide when this
>>> was--which may be my fault for not making sure my name is on the YTEP.
>>>
>>> I will try to jump on, but I'm at a conference that is running late so I
>>> will probably be delayed by about 15-20 minutes.
>>>
>>> I hate to be a pill, but there's no chance we can reschedule this?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> John ZuHone
>>> Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research
>>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>> 77 Massachusetts Ave., 37-582G
>>> Cambridge, MA 02139
>>> (w) 617-253-2354
>>> (m) 781-708-5004
>>> jzuhone at space.mit.edu
>>> jzuhone at gmail.com
>>> http://www.jzuhone.com
>>>
>>> On Jun 28, 2015, at 5:34 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We will have a yt developer team meeting tomorrow at 2pm EDT, 11am PDT.
>>> These are regularly scheduled meetings to discuss the state of the project.
>>> The meeting will be held in a yt hangout and all are welcome to attend and
>>> voice their opinions.  We may need to invite people to the hangout, so if
>>> you'd like to come, just let me know and I'll make sure you're included.
>>> Below is a rough agenda, but if there's something you'd like to discuss,
>>> bring it along.
>>>
>>> Britton
>>>
>>> Adopting astropy code of conduct
>>>
>>> Improving the PR review process
>>>
>>> regular PR review hangouts
>>>
>>> some other thing
>>>
>>> Section updates
>>>
>>> Project infrastructure evaluation
>>>
>>> Is the doc system working?
>>>
>>> Is Slack a good idea?
>>>
>>> Do bugs on the tracker work?
>>>
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>
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