Posted by alimac on August 2, 2015 at 2:23pm
Start:
2015-09-05 20:30 - 22:00 UTC Organizers:
Event type:
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)
[Meta] Mentor Meeting - Saturday, September 5, 2015 at UTC 20:30 in Google Hangout. To find the meeting ping YesCT or another mentor in IRC or check the mentor google calendar for the google hangout link. See https://www.drupal.org/core-mentoring for the calendar.
Mentor Meta meetings are once a month, usually on the first Saturday of the month, at UTC 20:30. These are mentor meetings about mentoring (hence the "meta"), about upcoming events and ongoing Drupal core mentoring efforts.
Do you want to get involved doing mentoring but not sure what to do? Want to help Drupal mentoring be successful? Join us. All help is welcome:
- people who can help organize us
- developers to help us with Drupal.org issues that will effect contributor or mentor experience
- planners to help with events
- people with different skills who are interested
Share what mentoring successes and challenges you have had.
Comments
Meeting minutes
We started with clearing out meeting time confusion that lasted for several months. Meeting times are scheduled in UTC (check what is UTC time in Google) . We had been meeting an hour earlier which was carried over from before daylight savings time in US. Next meeting is now scheduled in UTC. (DST for US, Europe)
DrupalCon Barcelona
Dates: 21-25 September. Sprint day is Friday, 25 September
We're still looking for sponsors for extended sprints and
mentor thank you dinner. Mentor thank you dinner will happen in any case (if we don't have a sponsor, we will flock together on our own).
Mentor sign up status
64 mentors have signed up via the form (goal is 55), including leads. Goal achieved!
38 mentors have added their names to the Mentor spreadsheet.
Mentor T-shirt distribution will it be handled by DA at registration like in Los Angeles instructions to mentors about T shirt pickup will be sent on Sept 16.
Recommended sessions
See @alimac's post
Friday sprint
Number of issues that can be worked on for Drupal 8 is small, now that we are close to a release candidate. Main question that we need to answer: what are people going to work on during Friday sprint?
Drupal 8 may be in RC, meaning only docs issues, criticals, and "non-disruptive majors" are on the table to be committed. We can't do the same sort of novice tasks as we have previously if this is the case.
core commit policy for RC: https://www.drupal.org/core/dev-cycle#rc
Possible options:
The list is far from being final, we will have a brainstorm on other options, and invite as many stakeholders as we can: core committers, contrib maintainers, DA people.
@xjm suggested that we go from uniform structure (all tables do the same type of tasks) to topical tables with leads. Possible topics can be certain contrib module(s), mobile, accessibility etc.)
migration testing
DrupalCon Asia
We have dates! 18-21 February, Sprint day is Sunday, 21 February
Extended sprints:
positive feedback from venue, need to get input from Amanda
looking at Thursday - Sunday
possibility of Wednesday, Monday?
Mentor sign-up form is active: 11 mentors have signed up
New feature: form sends an email confirmation to the person signing up
Change: form is behind login because of spam :(
Mentor communications are documented in: https://www.drupal.org/node/2479605
MailChimp automation will be paid by Wise Trout (@todo alimac-valthebald
Mentors coming to Mumbai:
manjit
novella
kgoel (possibly),
ryan (most probably),
alimac (possibly),
cathy (not likely),
rachit
xjm (hopefully)
@todo manjit invite Mumbai locals to barcelona planning calls so they can experience what planning is like for Mumbai.
DrupalCon New Orleans
Dates are 9 May - 13 May
Cathy is looking for a new Sprint and Mentoring Lead
@todo we need an update from YesCT
Documentation
MAINTAINERS.txt updated! (https://www.drupal.org/node/2522716)
IRC check-in
Lightly attended lately, we hope to see more after the -Cons.
possibly due to back-to-school
@todo in Barcelona: discuss possible second time slot with mentor leads and possible mentors
Major issue triage
heddn and xjm will elaborate the idea of major issue triage light and we will discuss it on the next meeting (or in Barcelona)
Drupal 8 retrospective survey
All interested persons are welcome to fill out
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G2cDZab7JsCEIdCNj2KP9NwQVzM5hnRMVQKhrSW...
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Next meeting
Next meeting is scheduled on Saturday, 3 October, 2015 20:30 UTC
Regarding issues to work on,
Regarding issues to work on, we still have this issue for updating all of Classy's template comments. https://www.drupal.org/node/2430381
That is something like 100 novice issues that can all be worked on after RC.
Regarding issues to work on,
edit: double posted for some reason.