Setup Matters

Rob's "manual digital automation system" -- where "digital" refers to fingers -- didn't quite get around to sending mail notifying everyone of today's meeting. So while we didn't have a thundering horde of viewers watching the live stream, we nonetheless managed to attract someone new, who'd never attended before. I'll call that a win!

Today's meeting is the first in 2022 and the first being live-streamed on YouTube. Those two (mildly) interesting facts did not substantially change our long-proven formula: Triage issues, talk about stuff, make bad jokes.

In a rare reversal of end-of-year weather fortune, my driveway in Michigan is dry and Rob's in Washington is snow-covered. (I'm entirely confident that this will not hold true over the next several months.) Before Rob got out the snow shovel, we quickly reviewed a couple of open issues and reviewed some pull requests, mostly from Sean, whose driveway is an unknown state, but likely also snow-free.

There were no skipped meetings due to illness, but we nonetheless managed to accumulate a larger-than-average number of issues to triage. However, on closer inspection, a supermajority of new issues came from those pesky WiX contributors, who are well known for causing extra work for the WiX contributors, pesky and non-pesky alike.

We skipped our last scheduled meeting due mostly to violent illness on my part—betrayed again by discount gas station sushi—so today we had a bigger-than-typical set of issues to triage and issues to discuss.

Everyone's fortunate that today's meeting had a higher-than-normal concentration of Bob. Mostly because it was a short meeting -- we had only one issue to triage and it was one I opened. Future meetings will, alas, probably return to a normal amount of Bobness.