Discussion about Mercurial 4.8 Sprint

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Thu Jun 7 11:34:25 EDT 2018


On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 02:08:40PM -0700, Sean Farley wrote:
>
> Kevin Bullock <kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> writes:
>
> >> On Jun 5, 2018, at 23:02, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello everyone!
> >>
> >> I want to bring up a discussion about the next location for the sprint.
> >> In my recent travels, I talked with ~10 people who expressed some
> >> reservations about being able to make the next sprint if it is held in
> >> Japan.
> >
> > Without going into personal details, can you summarize what people's reservations are? Travel time? Cost? Ability to get a visa? I'm wondering if there are issues we could work around (e.g. drum up more travel funding).
>
> I can't speak for everyone's personal reason, of course, but the
> sentiment I got was a combination of many things. I think a major issue
> was that some of the people wanting to attend had children or family
> constraints that makes traveling a bit difficult.

The travel time from the Eastern US is enough shorter that I'm
probably more likely to make an EU sprint than a JP sprint[0],
especially since I could combine it with other work visits in Europe,
for what it's worth.

That said, it'd be nice to give our contributors in Japan a shorter
commute. We've been talking about it for years.

Augie


0: For the "family constraints" mentioned - we're still enough in the
"new family member" stage I don't know how easy travel will be in the
fall, so I might have to be judicious about how much time I spend away
from home. There's a chance I wouldn't make /any/ sprint this fall, so
probably don't plan around me?
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