330347 - Transparency: Evaluate current structure of [e-mail] meetings

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Governance, task)

Description

[Zak Greant]

Brendan Eich writes:

The [e-mail] meetings have been combined with paid staff of first MF and now MF + MC.  This was calculated to do the least harm, but I think that may have been a mis-calculation.

Comment 1

[Zak Greant]

Adding Darin Fischer to Cc.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Wow, I didn't know there was a "Governance" component ;-)

Anyways, here's how I would summarize the issue:

It's good that the community gets to see weekly status from MF and MC employees.  It's odd for the meeting to be referred to as a [e-mail] meeting when it includes people who are not part of staff.  Possible solutions: redefine the meeting to describe what it actually is, or separate the meetings appropriately.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

What mitchell said at the firefox summit was, iirc, that the meetings didn't really discuss staff things anymore, but were mainly mozilla.com information meetings (hm, the minutes at http://wiki.mozilla.org/2005Offsite/MozillaProjectDynamics don't really contain that...). it would seem like this means that the staff meeting minutes should be renamed.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

zak: Please only change the assignee and not the QAContact when you are taking a bug. Many of us watch the QAContact for changes with Governance bugs, and by changing it, it causes bugmail to be lost and never seen. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Zak Greant]

Resolved - information about the meeting is now posted publicly and anyone can call in. :)