Picking a date for Mercurial 4.2 sprint (California, February-March)

[Martin von Zweigbergk]

On Sun, Jan 8, 2017, 05:19 Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 01/06/2017 08:46 PM, Martin von Zweigbergk wrote:
> > Still only 9 people signed up. The signup table on the wiki only
> > mentioned the weekend dates until just now, but I can't remember
> > deciding that we only do it on Saturday to Sunday, so it's still
> > presumably Friday to Sunday.
>
> Oops, looks like a small mistake on my part when I created the page.
> Yep, Friday to Sunday is still the plan here.
>
> > The wiki is now updated accordingly, and
> > hopefully people's availability is still accurate now that the dates
> > include Friday. The people who have signed up so far are all available
> > March 17th-19th, so that's what I'll try to find a conference room for
> > now. I'll assume we'll be ~30 people.
>
> Yep, 30 peoples seems our current average. Having small rooms for
> discussion helps a lot can you make sure we have a couple of them
> available?


Yes, I was hoping to get 4 rooms for 5-10 people each, in addition to a big
room.

>
> Thanks a lot for looking into this. It is getting urgent to freeze a
> date so that people can start planning travel. March 10th-12th is a bit
> earlier in the cycle so it might be preferable but Gregory Szorc
> attendance is less likely :-/. From a recent discussion with Greg it
> seemed like it was unclear he could make any of the sprint dates. So
> I'll let him jump in and clarify his preference (CCed him to make sure
> he sees that).
>

It's already getting close, which is a reason to do the later date, so I'd
rather stick with that until we have a more important reason to change. I
personally don't care which date it is, but especially for all those who
have to book flights, I imagine a later date is better.


> Let us aims are putting a final stamp one sprint date by Tuesday January
> 10th. What do you think?
>

Sure, I think that's enough time to wait. I'd even be tempted to say the if
someone has already booked a flight ticket, then that's reason enough to
say to anyone else who has not yet signed up and for whom the date does not
work, that "sorry, X has already booked a flight, it's too late to change".
But yes, let's say January 10, mostly so those who need to book flights
know that we're not changing the date, so they can book their flights on
Jan 11.


> Cheers,
>
> --
> Pierre-Yves David
>
> PS: sprint page: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/4.2sprint
>
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