.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Communication with the OTP Team maintainers =========================================== Message channels with the OTP Team maintainers ---------------------------------------------- OTP Team assigns a pull request (PR) to a team member as a maintainer. Close and frequent communication with the maintainer is a key for contributing good and high quality code. Many levels of communication may happen, as in the following list: * GitHub issues (on the PR), for open and public exchange of ideas, soliciting broader participation from the community; * Direct email exchange, mainly for the unofficial exchange of conceptual ideas and making private communication and decision; and * Other informal channels such as face-to-face meeting in a conference, which is rare but important to find out the gut feelings of each other on various issues. Respect OTP Team working hours ------------------------------ Most of OTP Team maintainers seem to work in the Sweden time zone, which is the same as `Central European Time Zone `_ as observed in many other nations and regions in Europe. In the Central European Time Zone, CET, the standard time in the Winter is UTC + 1 hour. Central European Summer Time (CEST), which is observed during the summer, is UTC + 2 hours. Note well that the Summer Time or Daylight Saving Time period *differ between Europe and US/Canada*. When you send and receive message to OTP Team, you need to respect their regular working hours. For many of the volunteer contributors including myself, writing Erlang/OTP code is often *for fun*, but for the OTP Team it is their *duty and business*. They rarely work in weekends and holidays [#otpcom1]_. Sending messages will be OK even on their vacation, but don't expect a prompt reply during non-working hours. And remember OTP Team members have to handle a lot of different OTP modules and applications, so their time slot for each application is limited. .. Rubric:: Footnotes .. [#otpcom1] Everyone needs rest to recuperate.