Hi Cris, On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 12:07 -0400, Cris Rockwell wrote: > I’ve read thread [1] and have a few observations: > > 1. It happened on the Sling Dev email list. Sling Dev has too many > daily emails. The context and substance of most messages are > difficult to understand unless you’re already fully entrenched. I > unsubscribed pretty quick. It is not the best platform for all > collaboration across the project community.
That's good feedback, thank you. What would you suggest to make this list friendlier to those how are not fully entrenched? Is it volume? Is it lack of response to 'simpler' questions? Something else? > 2. To summarize the respondents of thread [1] every non-Adobe > responder in the thread wanted Slack. Adobe already has a company > chat platform. More collaboration across organizational boundaries > would be a good thing for the project. Like Carsten said, I don't think that's a fair characterisation. In my (personal, biased) opinion, the contributors from Adobe are the least susceptible ones of using direct messaging inside Adobe to discuss Sling issues. Looks a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem . If you disagree with the arguments that were brought up, please do so. But let's keep the people out of this. > 3. There was no vote. Why don’t we use the decision making process > for Apache Software Foundation projects [2]? > > Let’s put it to a vote and let the Sling Users have a say. Respond > with +1 if you want a Slack Workspace for the Sling Community. Of > course use of Slack is optional, so there is no need to vote against. > Don’t join unless you want to! I'm not sure putting it to a vote is the best way of doing that. There were arguments against the Slack channel that were not discussed further. The decision-making-process from your link indicates that This process is called "consensus gathering" and we consider it a very important indication of a healthy community. Note that consensus != majority != unanimity. That being said, if you think that a Slack channel is a good asset for the Sling community, feel free to start one and make use of it. It would be interesting to see how this evolves in the long run. Just be aware that - as the thread on dev@sling indicates - that a significant amount of Sling contributors prefer asychronous communication and will likely not be great contributors to a Slack channel. Thanks, Robert > > Cris Rockwell > Applications Architect Sr > College of Literature, Science, and the Arts | University of > Michigan > LSA Technology Services | 301 E Liberty Suite 500 | Ann Arbor, MI > 48104 > Desk: 734.763.6818 | Email: [email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > > [2]: > https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#decision-making < > https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#decision-making> > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2020, at 4:04 AM, Robert Munteanu <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hi Cris, > > > > On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 11:03 -0400, Cris Rockwell wrote: > > > Hi Sling Users > > > > > > Is there a community chat platform like Slack or gitter for Sling > > > users and developers? > > > > Not at the moment. See also [1] where we had this discussion and > > eventually abandoned the idea. > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > [1]: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19665a94cb17d9b7607eb9c5fe4c91cfa1df8eed55219f2db9b53f05%40%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E > > < > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19665a94cb17d9b7607eb9c5fe4c91cfa1df8eed55219f2db9b53f05%40%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E > > > > > > > > Cris > > >
