Absolutely - SO is great to use it for troubleshooting etc. And I have even seen projects redirecting all "users" questions/problems immediately to SO with dedicated #airflow (?) tag.
I think this discussion (again trying to put it back to the original topic) is more about enabling "devlist" discussions for people who are now inttimidated by the mailing list interface. It's NOT about archiving. It's all about how to make our official channels more accessible to people who seem to be unhappy witjh using mailing lists. Surely we can turn our blind eye on people who are not familiar/friendly with mailing lists. But I think we are losing a lot of valuable comments and inside if we limit ourselves to only that interface - especially if we can fairly easily (and with low risk) try to enable other ways of participating in the devlist discussions - while still being fully compliant with Apache's transparency and devlist rules. I honestly think we should try to enable bi-directional sync slack channels <> devlist (and not create a separate list for that) with some social engineering to make it easy and "official" at the same time. If we find it too overwhelming, we can always disable it. It's really not only about indexing, it's also about participation. I think indexing is secondary (though mandatory as well) - but if we open up to more people participating in the discussion, we will simply be a better community. J. On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:08 PM Pablo Estrada <pabl...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > > Would it be possible to have a simple bot encouraging users to post their > questions directly to user@? If users get what they need from the people in > Slack, that's fine - and if they don't, they can post to user@ themselves. > > Don't want to add too much noise to the conversation, but StackOverflow is > a channel worth considering too, as it's indexable and searchable. > Best > -P. > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 1:03 PM Tomasz Urbaszek <tomasz.urbas...@polidea.com> > wrote: > > > Jarek’s right, the main point was to create a connection between devlist > > and slack so user can be more engaged. > > > > If we think there will be to much spam with bidirectional integration then > > we should start only with streaming devlist to slack channel. > > > > T. > > > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 21:40, Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Yeah. Archive of slack is one thing, but I think the whole discussion > > > is also about letting people to participate in official devlist > > > discussions using slack interface. I think that's the property that is > > > addressing the "more welcoming" discussion as well. > > > Seems like we are discussing a different topic now. I am not sure if > > > the archive bot is addressing this part? > > > > > > J. > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 6:28 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <a...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > About 12..9 months ago I started working on an Acrhive bot for Slack -- > > > the eagle eyed of you may have noticed that there is an "Archie the > > Archive > > > Bot" in most of our channels. It's not currently running but > > > https://github.com/ashb/slackarchive is pretty close to being in a > > > workable state: it imported the message export for history, got new > > > messages, had a UI with searching -- about the only thing missing was it > > > didn't show threads (visually, it shows all the messages from them). > > > > > > > > It seems like there is demand for this so I can fire it up and deploy > > it > > > somewhere more persistent than my laptop :) > > > > -ash > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Jarek Potiuk > > > Polidea | Principal Software Engineer > > > > > > M: +48 660 796 129 <+48%20660%20796%20129> > > > > > -- > > > > Tomasz Urbaszek > > Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Software Engineer > > > > M: +48 505 628 493 <+48%20505%20628%20493> <+48505628493 > > <+48%20505%20628%20493>> > > E: tomasz.urbas...@polidea.com <tomasz.urbasz...@polidea.com> > > > > Unique Tech > > Check out our projects! <https://www.polidea.com/our-work> > > -- Jarek Potiuk Polidea | Principal Software Engineer M: +48 660 796 129
