Summary: office hours have already ended, this note makes it official.
Background
In September 2021, we established "office hours" as part of TPA-RFC-12, to formalize the practice of occupying a Big Blue Button (BBB) room every Monday. The goal was to help people with small things or resolve more complex issues but also to create a more sympathetic space than the coldness of space offered by IRC and issue trackers.
This practice didn't last long, however. As early at December 2021, we noted that some of us didn't really have time to tend to the office hours or when we did, no one actually showed up. When people would show up, it was generally planned in advance.
At this point, we have basically given up on the practice.
Proposal
We formalize the end of TPA office hours. Concretely, this means removing the "Office hours" section from TPA-RFC-2.
Instead, we encourage our staff to pick up the phone and just call each other if they need to carry information or a conversation that doesn't happen so well over other medium. This extends to all folks in tor-internal that need our help.
The "office hours" room will remain in BBB (https://tor.meet.coop/ana-ycw-rfj-k8j) but will be used on a need-to basis. Monday is still a good day to book such appointments, during America/Eastern or America/Pacific "business hours", depending on who is "star of the week".
Approval
This is assumed to be approved by TPA already, since, effectively, no one has been doing office hours for months already.