[braindump] variations on 1:1s

[flavorjones]

This should most definitely be broken up into smaller stories, it's intended to capture some high-level thoughts around a command to create and manage one-on-ones (or more generally, people meetings).

Some variations I currently have (manually, with great difficulty) or would like:

• with a person every N weeks for M minutes
• with a person every N weeks alternating M and M' minutes
• with two people, alternating 2:1 with 1:1s, every N weeks for M minutes
• with a person just once, schedule within an upcoming time period
• with pool of people in repeating time slot(s) (e.g. all CF Eng managers in these three time slots)

Features:

• associate a person with a preference for start-of-day (breakfast) or end-of-day (pub)

Crazy Implementation Thought

One thought, and this might be crazy, is not to always use GCal's "recurring event" feature (though ice_cube will make that easy), but instead to schedule individual meetings, and then rely on the linter to see "it's been N weeks since your last meeting with Jim, I'll schedule a new one".

Pros: this means that meeting frequency can easily be dialed up or down across a wide variety of one-on-ones. @gsiener has suggested a "dial" for when he's busy and for the next month wants every 2-week one-on-one to become a 3-week; every 3-week to become a 4-week; etc. (Or the other way, let's get some 1:1s done this week!)

Cons: this likely means that one-on-ones won't be on the same day at the same time for people. Regularity is important for many people and this may mean the one-on-one meeting is perceived as less valuable, or is less likely to be attended.

[robdimsdale]

An additional request I have which relates to the last bullet point (apologies if this is is covered in another issue) is that I would like to be able to say:

• Schedule some number of 1:1 meetings with a specified set people within a provided time period.
• Maintain a minimum amount of time between 1:1 meetings (i.e. don't schedule two with the same person in the same week)

This is particularly relevant when I need to move existing meetings (e.g. due to OOO). Essentially I want to keep roughly the same number of 1:1s as I had before the OOO was scheduled, and I don't want to try to manually reschedule them all.