AreaDetector Monthly Collaboration Meetings

[Érico Nogueira Rolim via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi folks!

Last year, Emilio, who used to work at Diamond, started organizing monthly meetings to collaborate on areaDetector repositories. Unfortunately, as mentioned, he's no longer at Diamond, and is no longer able to coordinate these meetings. Henrique Simões and I, Érico Nogueira, from SIRIUS/LNLS, would like to take over this coordination, while also suggesting a different format.

In order to make better use of our time during the 1h long meetings, and to continuously bring in new people, 1 week before the meeting we would send an email to tech-talk and to participants with a suggested agenda. This agenda would consist of automatically selected issues and PRs from GitHub, and any other relevant action points. This way, participants can take a look at the links, and possibly answer/review them before the meeting, and non-participants will be aware of what's happening in meetings, and can chime in for subjects within their expertise. Additions to the agenda can happen through tech-talk as well.

For the automatic selection of issues and PRs, we would keep using the existing script which selects the most recent ones, and would like to extend it to generate a list of the least recent ones; this would allow us to take a look at ancient issues and PRs each meeting, and act on those (easy merges, invalid issues, etc.).

We would also like to have a first (or one of the first) meetings dedicated to setting up guidelines for maintainership of AreaDetector. This would have to involve Mark Rivers directly, in order to define guidelines for merging PRs to drivers and core repositories (how much testing is necessary; what to do about detectors no participant has experience with; recurring contributors), documentation changes, releases, inclusion of new drivers and plugins, and more.

At the moment, we would consider keeping the previously selected date and time: first Thursday of each month, at 15:00 UTC.

We are open to suggestions, and look forward to hearing from you and reengaging this effort!

Cheers,

Érico

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