Is Slack threaded as e-mail is? (If not, and you can't see messages grouped by subject (that is, if it's the case that you can't see the tree of messages for a subject without wading through irrelevant messages that occurred at intervening times), how is Slack better than using the existing e-mail lists?)
Also, should we really be siphoning discussion away from the public Apache Drill mailing lists and into the private Slack enviroment? (Or did I miss some public way to see what's in Slack?) Daniel Jacques Nadeau wrote:
Hey Guys, We've been using Slack a lot internally and have found it very useful. I setup a new slack for Drill developers and users. I've set it to automatically accept new users from @apache.org as well as @mapr.com, @ maprtech.com and @dremio.com. I'm more than happy to whitelist other domains (but slack won't let me enable general domains such as gmail and yahoo). If you aren't on one the whitelisted domains, just send me an email and I'll invite you (or add your domain as appropriate). Remember, these channels should be used for help as opposed to making design decisions. My goal is also to post a digest once a week from the channels back on to the list so that the information is publicly available. I set up two initial channels: #user and #dev. Let's see if this makes things easier for everybody. To Join, go to: https://drillers.slack.com/signup -- Jacques Nadeau CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio
-- Daniel Barclay MapR Technologies
