An issue to collect open discussion items for unused CG meeting slots

[dtig]

In the roadmapping session for last week's CG meeting, there was interest in using CG meeting slots that we cancel for open discussion. Given the size of the group, we should decide on what the best use of time is. @conrad-watt suggested we could have a curated list of discussion topics that we can work our way through. Opening this issue to see what folks would thing would be worthwhile to discuss. Other ideas that came up at the meeting:

• Issue triage (thanks to @sunfishcode for a big triage effort on the design repo)
• Bringing our documentation up to date (website, processes, FutureFeatures.md etc.)

[tlively]

I don't have anything to add to the list, but big +1 from me for using meeting slots as bug triage and documentation improvement hackathons.

[sunfishcode]

Idea: The website currently has a git submodule for the design repo to pull in selected files. To simplify this and make it easier to work on the website, could we move the files it needs from the design repo into the website repo, and replace the design repo copies with links to the website? We could then eliminate the submodule.

[penzn]

Other ideas that came up at the meeting:

• Issue triage (thanks to @sunfishcode for a big triage effort on the design repo)
• Bringing our documentation up to date (website, processes, FutureFeatures.md etc.)

I think issue triage can be the default - a discussion on newly updated issues on common repositories (design, spec, meetings, etc) would be straight-forward and useful. Documentation is a good idea, but there needs to be a list of some sort to go through.

[dtig]

One of the things that came up in discussion with @conrad-watt recently was to use some of the time for informational sessions, i.e. on understanding the formal spec, working with the interpreter, a walk through of writing spec tests etc. We could record these sessions and make them accessible for easier ramp up. We don't have too many slots in the near future, but we can schedule this for when we run into empty slots again. Please reach out if you'd be interested on presenting, or add yourself to the agenda.