<p dir="ltr">open question: where can automation help? </p>
<p dir="ltr">what is causing the bulk of time waste in doing community management to really dig into what a particular issue or PR is trying to accomplish? perhaps a cloud asset, along the lines of Travis-ci, that allowed single click access to a running kernel, web notebook or other aspect of the system?</p>
<p dir="ltr">while GH is great, and is cited as one of the factors leading to involvement blowing up, would a more workflow-enabled system like jira or rt offer better triage? with the API, Github could still be an entry point into the ecosystem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">too much success seems like a happy problem... I hope everything works out!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 18, 2012 10:39 AM, "Thomas Kluyver" <<a href="mailto:takowl@gmail.com">takowl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 December 2012 20:00, Brian Granger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ellisonbg@gmail.com" target="_blank">ellisonbg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>* How do we manage communication? Verbal communication is much more<br>
efficient than emails or even IRC. The 4 people at Berkeley will have<br>
an incredible advantage in being able to talk daily. We don't want to<br>
cripple or remove that advantage, but we need to figure out how to<br>
include other core devs and people from the community. This is<br>
particularly relevant to myself as I am the only person involved in<br>
the Sloan work that is not at Berkeley.</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think this issue - communication - is becoming key. I spent a day away from my computer, and came back to >40 new e-mails in my IPython folder (in addition to the 20 odd unread that I'm planning to get round to one day). That's a mixture of our two mailing lists and the Github notification messages. I get the feeling we're approaching a critical point, where it's no longer possible for us as individuals to keep up with all the discussions going on.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">To my mind, we need to split things up. We already have an informal separation of interests - for instance, I leave most of the discussion about the notebook front-end to others, but get more involved with IPython.core. I think we need to make this a bit (not too much) more formal, so that no-one falls down the cracks as everything speeds up.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This could mean, e.g. more specialised mailing lists, or having a consistent process for handling incoming issues.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best wishes,<br>Thomas<br></div>
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