Hi,
Slack is very convenient for quick communication, but clearly, it doesn't change
that the mailing list is the first communication channel. If discussions happen
on Slack, minute notes/discussion has to be forwarded on the mailing list.
I wonder if we plan to ask for some "pro" Slack account for Apache projects (as
we have license for IntelliJ for example). Now, at Apache Beam, we reached the
max capacity of the Slack free version (90 Slack users on Beam channel and
limited history). We already received new member request that we can't accept
for now.
Thoughts ?
Regards
JB
On 03/22/2017 10:37 PM, Craig Russell wrote:
Hi James,
There was a pretty extensive discussion on the netbeans dev list. I’d encourage
you to review this thread
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2dce365d03334c82d31b12c8b3dcad1a925a2f71af75658b8d8a5a07@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
You can get all of the messages in the thread by doing a quick search for
“slack” on the d...@netbeans.apache.org list in lists.apache.org.
My takeaway is that Slack not a substitute for email. But it is useful for
ping-pong communication when people are in the heat of development.
But no decisions are made on Slack, and any discussion there (aside from “add a
semicolon there” and “let’s get lunch") needs to be brought back to the dev
list.
The underlying principle is that “if it didn’t happen on dev, then it didn’t
happen”. We strive for open, inclusive communications at Apache and that means
attempting to encourage participation by everyone who wants to, regardless of
primary language, time zone, and availability of tools. (We assume everyone has
a device that handles email clients).
Hope this helps.
Craig
On Mar 22, 2017, at 1:27 PM, James Bognar <jamesbog...@apache.org> wrote:
Can someone remind me? I thought there was a discussion a couple of months
ago about allowing incubator projects to use Slack for communication. What
was the final decision?
Craig L Russell
c...@apache.org
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