Proposal: reduce the maxmimum number of applicants per meeting

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey there,

Le 06/09/2022 à 09:39, Lukasz Zemczak a écrit :
> Current membership board is
> more responsive, but indeed it seems that sometimes the one-hour is
> not enough to get a thorough review of a candidate.

As a relatively new member I've to admit I have been finding some of the 
IRC meetings slowness quite frustrating. We have latency in replies 
(probably people being busy with different things are the same time as 
they deal IRC combined with the slowness of typing) and it often takes 5 
to 10 min to have a simple question asked and a reply to that with maybe 
a follow up. It would probably be okish if it was a time of the day 
where I was working and doing other things in parallel but the meetings 
are either at a time where I should already be away from the computer or 
the evening and I've to admit that on some occasion I just ended up 
walking away from the computer to read the rest of the log later (or be 
back to vote). It is also discouraging me to want to ask questions to 
applicants...

Am I the only one in that case?

If not I wonder if there anything we could do to help improving the 
efficiency? Maybe sending the questions in advance? Or requesting to DMB 
members to have their ready to 'publish' at the start of the meeting and 
give a reasonable time slot (<n> minutes per question?) for the 
applicant to reply to those before following up with extra questions if 
needed?

Cheers,
Sebastien