IRC/Gathering-2013-08-28

[2:00pm] jcaudle: Hello everyone! Anyone here for the IRC meet up?

[2:00pm] maco: hi

[2:00pm] jcaudle: hi maco!

[2:00pm] maco: i forgot about it, but handily quassel tells me when people talk else-channel

[2:01pm] sabreuse: Oh hai! Activity in the channel (yeah, I also would've forgotten. Either the meetup time or the actual time, at least one is guaranteed)

[2:01pm] jcaudle: ohai sabreuse!

[2:02pm] • randomling waves

[2:03pm] jcaudle: Looks like a good contingent from the hemisphere that's awake right now!

[2:04pm] jcaudle: Anybody have something they wanted to talk about?

[2:05pm] sabreuse: I feel like I've been too busy with other things to do a whole lot in recent cycles, but I'm excited for everything that's been going on.

[2:06pm] randomling: Yeah - I've been fighting my mental health and trying to get a job at the same time, but I'm hopeful that I'll actually get something soon. (I think with a more regular schedule, I'll be able to start figuring out how much time/energy I can spare for Growstuff, rather than feeling guilty every minute I'm not jobhunting? Anyway, I'm hoping to be able to do stuff here again soon.)

[2:09pm] jcaudle: One thing to keep in mind is that any input is helpful, so even responses on pull requests or mailing list responses can be a big help.

[2:10pm] jcaudle: Also, one thing that I know Skud and I have talked about is spiking more stories, so if you can't make time for pairing, getting a conceptual start on something might be a good way to contribute without a major mental or time investment.

[2:10pm] sabreuse: thanks for the reminder jcaudle! For me, that definitely falls under "advice I have no problem giving other people"

[2:10pm] jcaudle:

[2:11pm] randomling: that is indeed a good set of reminders!

[2:12pm] randomling: I will try to do some more small stuff

[2:12pm] randomling: (there is in fact a chore I have my eye on, if it hasn't been done already, which I could probably handle by myself)

[2:12pm] jcaudle: Also, even a "+1" or "-1" on a mailing list thread can be really helpful. It's definitely better than no response.

[2:13pm] jcaudle: randomling: which chore?

[2:13pm] randomling: refactoring some of the tests that use AUD to use the configured currency variable instead

[2:14pm] • randomling going now to look and see if it's still outstanding

[2:16pm] randomling: oh yeah there it is

[2:16pm] jcaudle:

[2:16pm] jcaudle: Is there anything about processes or procedures that any of you think we could improve on?

[2:17pm] randomling: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/52881869

[2:17pm] • randomling hmms

[2:17pm] randomling: nothing specific I can think of personally

[2:18pm] • Cesy waves

[2:18pm] Cesy: I finally made it to one of these!

[2:18pm] randomling: hi Cesy!

[2:18pm] jcaudle: hi Cesy!

[2:19pm] jessamynsmith left the chat room. (Remote host closed the connection)

[2:19pm] Cesy: Ah, looks like jcaudle already got to the urgent code review

[2:20pm] Cesy: Anything else we can jump in on right now?

[2:20pm] Cesy: How are we doing on publicity?

[2:21pm] jcaudle: I know Skud mentioned that signal boosting through social media is greatly appreciated right now.

[2:21pm] randomling: I just tweeted a little bit ago

[2:22pm] jcaudle: Getting into >1000 members with a significant number of paid accounts is pretty important.

[2:22pm] randomling: I should post to FB & figure out what to write in a DW post

[2:22pm] maco: jcaudle: um what does "spiking" a story mean?

[2:23pm] randomling: maco: it means taking a story and working on it by yourself instead of in a pair

[2:23pm] maco: oh ok

[2:23pm] • randomling not sure quite why "spiking" is the word

[2:23pm] maco: as soon as im done with my reproduction viking outfit (17 days til competition) i'll probably try taht

[2:24pm] jcaudle: randomling: the key reason why it's called spiking is that it probably isn't something that'll get merged as is.

[2:24pm] randomling: ahh fair

[2:24pm] jcaudle: randomling: just placing a spike of the conceptual possibility for how the code could look.

[2:24pm] • randomling nods

[2:24pm] fe2h2o: (Yay! Chat! I shouldn't be up right now, in fact I'm off to bed, but good to see people are here en masse:-) Goodnight!)

[2:25pm] Cesy: I'm drafting up a DW post

[2:25pm] maco: my medieval facebook account posted about growstuff. i saw that MissKat did too

[2:25pm] maco: my not so medieval facebook account will have a turn tomorrow

[2:26pm] sabreuse: randomling, the basic sense of spike is an exploration/experiment, maybe a new feature or way of doing things. Outside the normal map, as jcaudle says. In GS it's kind of moved away from the experiemental sense a bit to incorporate "non-paired" even if it's on known stories,

[2:27pm] randomling: Aha, cool

[2:29pm] Cesy: Blog post: http://cesy.dreamwidth.org/550273.html

[2:30pm] jcaudle: Cesy: Great! you may want to send that to the list too.

[2:30pm] randomling: Awesome!

[2:33pm] Cesy: I've just emailed the list about tweeting, so I don't want to spam too much

[2:33pm] Cesy: should have thought of it earlier and included it all in one

[2:38pm] jcaudle: Well, this looks like a pretty great meet up. anyone else have something to add?

[2:44pm] jcaudle: Well, thanks everyone for joining in! I'll still be around if you've got anything to add, but I think we can post from the beginning to here on the wiki.