[Product-Developers] Re: [Plone-developers] Plone Tune-Up Rally - Help Make Plone Even Better!

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Alexander Limi wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:04:33 -0700, Andreas Zeidler  
> <az at zitc.de> wrote:
> 
> > please don't get me wrong here, but what warrants a widely posted
> > announcement on behalf of the "plone community", especially when there
> > seemed to be some agreement to do something like this two weeks before
> > the next packaging deadline and, more importantly, _not_ on weekends?
> 
> Yeah, I made similar comments about timing etc, but I didn't want to block  
> the energy behind this effort just because it didn't fit the discussed  
> schedule. And it lead to quite a number of bugs getting fixed, so I think  
> it was worth it, and a good inaugural new-style bug day. :)
> 
> > while i don't really mind if it's one or two weeks in advance, or even
> > one week and a weekend :), i think doing this on a friday is a really
> > bad idea.  even more so if it's scheduled for afternoon in a u.s. time.
> >   this means friday night for europeans, so chances are very few of us
> > will be able to attend... :(
> 
> I agree, I think it should be moved to be earlier in the week next time,  
> and be a bit better timed with the releases. I wanted to see how the Six  
> Feet Up crew did with as few road blocks as possible, and I think they did  
> well. We can adjust the timing on the coming events.

The 6'up crew did put a lot of energy into it, but from what I remember
from the commit message they were the only ones participating. I think
this proves Andreas'es points.

Wichert.

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