I have to agree with PJ. I think we should try to limit the discussion areas to as few as possible so that we don't miss questions. There are already lots of places for discussion, adding one more feels like just adding to the noise.
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 6:25 PM PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > My preference is not to use Slack this way > > * it's already hard to keep track of conversations that flit between the > mailing lists, Github issues, Github PRs, Github Discussions - and Slack > adds another place > * All ASF discussions should be public (with a small number of exceptions) > and Slack is still closed unless we invite people - and only a finite > number of people will be invited > * with Github, we have integrations copying conversations to ASF mailing > lists - we don't have this for Slack - see > https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] > * it is important for the conversations to be archived in ASF locations > because Github and Slack may choose to close down access to ASF and our > users at a time of their choosing in the future and ASF needs to have a > record of these discussions on our own managed resources (eg ASF mailing > lists) > > On 2023/02/08 17:26:31 Matthew Benedict de Detrich wrote: > > This was discussed in the Pekko ASF Slack channel, but as of now only > Pekko > > committers are in the Slack channel. The idea is to open this up to the > > public, as I believe this would best serve the community and is also the > > appropriate place for communication whose format is too "casual" for > > mailing list discussion/github issues. There are TLP projects that are > > already doing this, i.e. Apache Kafka. > > > > Do note that if agreed upon, it's not possible to make the account > > completely public since an existing ASF slack user needs to invite a > person > > to join (see https://infra.apache.org/slack.html), such instructions > would > > be documented in the relevant places. > > > > -- > > > > Matthew de Detrich > > > > *Aiven Deutschland GmbH* > > > > Immanuelkirchstraße 26, 10405 Berlin > > > > Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 209739 B > > > > Geschäftsführer: Oskari Saarenmaa & Hannu Valtonen > > > > *m:* +491603708037 > > > > *w:* aiven.io *e:* [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
