Hi, On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 7:27 PM Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...My suggestion as to how to improve this wouldn't be the daily digest. > My suggestion would be to ensure any development conversations that > take place on Slack should be recreated on the mailing lists...
I agree with the intention, but having to "recreate" conversations can be counter-productive, I'd rather say that any "important" conversation needs to move out of Slack into a place which is fully open (as in findable with a Google search), asynchronous and has a persistent URL. Git tickets or pull requests fit the bill for that IMO, but the problem is that they are scattered among multiple Git repositories and it's hard to follow them "from afar" while not missing important things. To me, the essence of "if it didn't happen on the dev list it didn't happen" is being able to follow the project without missing anything important by just subscribing to this list. It doesn't mean everything has to really happen here (which I understand would not be popular) but everything important has to be reflected here, one way or another, so as to raise people's attention. The automated Slack digests are useful for archiving things here but as Matt Sicker says not really usable to quickly skim things. I think the following should help convince the Incubator that this project is ready to graduate as far as Apache-style communications are concerned: a) Guidelines (on http://openwhisk.apache.org/community.html probably) on how to use Slack as opposed to more persistent and async channels. That's basically "anything important needs to be fully open and discoverable from the dev list, with a persistent URL", doesn't need to be complicated but should reassure the Incubator that the project is clear about this. b) Weekly news on this list about what's going on generally and which PRs and tickets one should look at to stay informed. Might be automated or semi-automated but I suppose some redactional content helps. As I suppose the "full-timers" on this project are all on Slack, maybe a bot that collects /news items and sends them once a week would make this easy? -Bertrand
