I certainly appreciate the idea, but I worry that in practice it will be just another way to reach us and need to be supported along with all the others. I am wary of adding yet another place that the team needs to keep monitoring.
Lee has expressed interest in having a daily digest of the slack channel pushed to the mailing list, so maybe that would allow the channel contents to be treated as a searchable archive? jon On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 1:57 AM Evans Ye <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi team, > > I was exploring the functionality of DataSketches and I got a question I > want to ask. I found right now we use Slack and Google Forum for user > interaction: > > * Google: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sketches-user > * Slack: https://app.slack.com/client/T4S1WH2J3/CHWKFEHUZ > > I wonder what's the preferred way for the community? > I think Slack might not be a good way for "StackOverflow" like Q&A, nor > good for searching and cross timezone collaboration, but is very efficient > for deep-dive discussions. Google is OK but it does not integrate with > ASF's tool for stats and archiving. > > So, what I'm thinking is to create a [email protected] mailing > list for users. What do the community think? > > Best, > Evans Ye >
