> On 08 Aug 15, at 17:17, Jay Vyas <jayunit100.apa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the asf uses slack and hip hat and atlassian already so the open source
> debate is moot, right?
Yes. The virtue of open source, here, would also lie in being able to do open
source-things, like contribute modules freely that we could then use freely.
Slack does make its API public, so one could create modules that satisfy our
community interests, anyway, I suppose.
> People will use the best tools for the job and so that should be the focus.
> I'm neutral on slack vs irc, but I think if growing the ASF is important
> slack will be of major benefit.
That’s partly it. I use IRC, too—and have since college. But mention IRC to
most people, even devs who’ve been in the business a while, and you are likely
now to get blank stares. C’est la vie.
louis
>
>
>> On Aug 8, 2015, at 5:09 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> (top post)
>>
>> So, I pinged the nice folks at Slack (and they really are nice!, or at least
>> the guy I communicated with), and asked them about:
>>
>> * open source: No.
>> * the issue of uncaptured conversations, as Ted D. mentioned ("there is a
>> huge danger of off-list discussions…").
>>
>>
>> To the latter, which James H. of Slack recognised as important, he suggested:
>>
>> <quote>
>>
>> ...our new-ish reactions feature:
>> http://slackhq.com/post/123561085920/reactions
>> One team I'm in has coopted a particular emoji to flag conversations as
>> off-topic – a friendly but brief way to say "please take this elsewhere".
>> This probably wouldn't work for the social dynamics of every team, but it
>> does work in this particular case.
>>
>> </quote>
>>
>> I further replied that in this case that the technical solution seemed
>> interesting but that given the basic nature of the problem (it’s a human
>> thing), I’d guess that the solution will necessarily include discipline.
>> Cutting off options is going to get increasingly hard and we (Apache) run
>> the risk of coming to seem fustian, stodgy, obsolete, old fashioned and
>> everything else. Perhaps—as with GitHub—discipline and then yet more
>> recognition of the importance of inclusive community, is the ticket.
>> louis
>>
>>
>>> On 07 Aug 15, at 06:13, Ulrich Stärk <u...@spielviel.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> We use it to communicate with people in all parts of the world. US, South
>>> America, Several European
>>> countries, Asia. So I'd say it's pretty global.
>>>
>>> Uli
>>>
>>>> On 06.08.15 19:24, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I’m curious who here also uses Slack. Besides me, that is.
>>>>
>>>> One thing I’m interested in is, How global is its reach?
>>>>
>>>> -louis
>>
