AllCoreDevs, Network Upgrade & EthMagicians Process Improvements

[timbeiko]

@abcoathup I agree with a lot of your suggestions in the last post! In short:

1. Big +1 on summaries being valuable but not visible enough. I’m going to focus on shifting that, and make EthMag summaries my #1 artifacts, which gets crossposted to Twitter/Discord/Farcaster/etc.
2. The /pm repo is due for a refresh, and I’d rather wait a bit longer until more stuff around EthMag is figured out. It still feels like the right medium-term place for agendas and transcripts to live.
3. I think it’s fine to not focus on “notes” too much if we have good summaries and transcripts. Another artifact I’d like to have is good audio-only recordings.

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More detailed responses:

@abcoathup

Agenda mostly working, though a standard template would be helpful

Agreed here. Our “standard template” is currently on the /pm README. I’ve been meaning to revamp it a bit, but want to do so in the context of the other changes discussed in this thread.

@abcoathup

Long term having a dependency on GitHub is bad and need backups of these.

I agree with this too. I’ve considered moving them to EthMag a few times, but Github is valuable in that it is “closer” to where a lot of the technical work discussed on ACD happens.

@abcoathup

Summary: these are moderator dependent, so location and format vary greatly (Tim & Alex use Eth R&D Discord for ACD).

Agree these are really important, timeliness matters, and discord isn’t the best place for them. Starting with the next ACDE, I will try making EthMag summaries my #1 artifacts, effectively replacing both the Twitter threads and Discord summaries. I’ll cross-post them there, and see what the reaction is

@abcoathup

Notes
These are moderator dependent, so location and format vary greatly. They give more context to the summary, often the why a decision (in the summary) was made.

Notes are a bit of an awkward “level of resolution” IMO. I’d rather we focus on a good summary + transcript and treat notes as a “nice to have”.

@abcoathup

There should also be a way to link independent writeups e.g. @Christine_dkim writes notes for ACD calls.

I agree these are really valuable and should be better highlighted! So maybe Summary / Transcript / Writeups are the right artifacts?

@abcoathup

Recording: recordings should show participants and chat (for context) with subtitles (for accessibility).
Currently only ACD recordings include participants and chat, other calls lose this context.

Recordings should be available within 24 hours (at the latest) and ideally trimmed to the start of the call.

YouTube is great for sharing, but backups are required for the long term.

Agreed with all this, and I’d even go further. It would be nice to have audio-only versions of the calls broadly available, like a podcast subscription or something. The only times I have to watch a call I missed, I go to a “Youtube to mp3 conversion” site and download the audio only

@abcoathup

Transcripts (including & Chat logs)
Ideally these would be auto generated and available at the same time of the call recording (for news purposes).

I agree with the “ideally” here, but as @poojaranjan pointed out on Discord, auto-generated transcripts are far from perfect. Chat logs can likely be made available at the same time as videos, but for transcripts, I think it’s fine to wait a bit longer if it means the output has been sanity-checked.