xfs office hours meeting minutes

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

Hi everyone,

For background, Dave asked this on IRC on Tuesday:

[15:03] <dchinner> djwong: can you publish updated minutes for what is
discussed during the office hours meeting?

After a couple of days of doing some research and thinking about this,
I've decided that the answer is no, I cannot simultaneously facilitate
the meeting /and/ produce a detailed minute-by-minute record of what was
discussed.  I welcome someone volunteering to function as a scribe,
though I'll note that for most of the other community meetings (e.g.
LSFMM, LPC, etc) minutes are not produced.

Like the ext4 community call, the weekly hour is spent on asking fairly
mundane procedure questions of the release managers, people asking
questions when they get stuck, a roundtable of what everyone's working
on, and discussion of ideas.  This last thing is what I gather is the
sticking point -- people are allergic to backroom settlement of
conflicts that everyone is then bound to live with.

For those situations, I prefer to roughly follow the practice of ext4
community call.  To my observation, that practice is that if we think
we've settled a question, then a summary of that discussion will be sent
to the list for broader examination.  That to me feels like a reasonable
compromise between the unstructured conversations that occur on the call
vs. maintaining a public record.

Also, for people who have been attending the calls, I have numerous
conflicts for the next month or two, so the next office hours will be:

May 20
June 10
July 1

(and back to weekly starting July 1)

--D