Re: [dpdk-web] [PATCH] Added CI community meetings page

[Trishan de Lanerolle <tdelanerolle@linuxfoundation.org>]

Hi,
I would suggest pinning to UTC. A lot of meetings are moving to UTC
mapping. Also for DPDK, we have community members spread in US and EU.
Trishan


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:56 AM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 27/05/2020 14:27, Lincoln Lavoie:
> > Hi Thomas, comments below.
> >
> > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:22 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thanks for starting a new web page for archiving CI meetings minutes.
> > > I have few comments below.
> > >
> > >
> > > 26/05/2020 19:35, lylavoie@iol.unh.edu:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/content/testing/ci_meetings.md
> > >
> > > What about "testing/meetings.md"?
> > >
> >
> > See next comment.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> > > > ++++
> > > > +title = "Community CI Minutes"
> > > > ++++
> > >
> > > I feel "Community" refers to "Community Lab".
> > > Do we agree that the scope of these meetings are about the CI
> > > of the DPDK project in general?
> > > If so, I think "CI Meeting Minutes" would be a good header.
> > > For the title of the page, appearing in the menu under "Testing",
> > > I think "Meetings" would be short and good enough.
> > >
> >
> > I was trying to differentiate the page from the tech board meetings page,
> > which is called just "Minutes."  My opinion is, it's bad form to have a
> > bunch of pages named the same title, as their context is then taken only
> > from their location in the site map and not the page itself.
>
> The "title" appears in the menu in the context of its parent "Testing".
> It also appears at the top of the page as a kind of image,
> followed by the headline which can be different and longer, like "CI
> Meetings".
>
>
> > > > +
> > > > +## Community CI Meeting Minutes
> > > > +
> > > > +### Schedule & Joining
> > > > +Calls are currently biweekly, on Tuesday, at 9am Eastern USA Time.
> To
> > >
> > > Please prefer UTC time.
> > >
> >
> > I can make this change, but with UTC time, the meeting time will "change"
> > multiple times for different groups of people, in Europe and North
> America,
> > as UTC never changes for daylight savings time.  I've seen this cause
> > conflicts and issues over the several weeks in other groups.  If we
> > "anchor" to a timezone that does at least observe UTC, the meeting time
> > does "move" for some, but then "moves back" when their zone also changes
> > to/from daylight savings.
>
> I don't know what is best.
> In techboard we chose UTC.
>
>
> > > > +join the calls, your company must be a gold or silver level DPDK
> > > > +[member](//www.dpdk.org/ecosystem/#members).  Reach out on the
> > > > +[ci@dpdk.org](mailto:ci@dpdk.org) to be added to the meeting
> calendar
> > > > +invite.
> > >
> > > Trishan, do you confirm this exact rule, regarding Linux Foundation
> > > membership?
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +### Minutes
> > > > +
> > > > +Meeting minutes are sent to the mailing list following each meeting.
> > > Links
> > > > +to the message in the email archieve are listed below.
> > >
> > > s/archieve/archive/
> > >
> > > > +
> > > > +* [2020-05-03](//mails.dpdk.org/archives/ci/2020-May/000630.html)
> > > > +* [2020-05-19](//mails.dpdk.org/archives/ci/2020-May/000643.html)
> > >
> > > I propose a reverse chronological order so the most recent one is at
> the
> > > top.
> > >
> >
> > No problem, I can make this change.
>
>
>
>

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Trishan R. de Lanerolle
Technical Program Manager & Community Architect
Networking, Linux Foundation
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