I'm a bit torn here. On the one hand I think Slack would be nice because it allows a more direct interaction. Similar to the IRC channel we once had.
On the other hand, I fear that some information/discussions might get lost in the depths of Slack and at least after the 10000 message limit has been reached. Posting these things on the ML allows to persist the information in the ML archives. Moreover, it would discourage to some extent the usage of the ML in general which is not in the sense of the ASF. The problem that only ASF committers have access to the ASF slack channel can be solved by an explicit invite for everyone [1]. [1] https://s.apache.org/slack-invite Cheers, Till On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the background information. > I withdraw previous +1 > -------- Original message --------From: Chesnay Schepler < > ches...@apache.org> Date: 4/3/18 4:50 AM (GMT-08:00) To: > dev@flink.apache.org Subject: Re: Using Slack for online discussions > -1 > > 1. According to INFRA-14292 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-14292> the ASF Slack > isn't run by the ASF. This alone puts this service into rather > questionable territory as it /looks/ like an official ASF service. > If anyone can provide information to the contrary, please do so. > 2. We already discuss things on the mailing lists, JIRA and GitHub. All > of these are available to the public, whereas the slack channel > requires an @apache mail address, i.e. you have to be a committer. > This minimizes the target audience rather significantly. I would > much rather prefer something that is also available to contributors. > > On 30.03.2018 10:17, Ted Yu wrote: > > +1 > > -------- Original message --------From: Jean-Baptiste Onofré < > j...@nanthrax.net> Date: 3/30/18 12:43 AM (GMT-08:00) To: > dev@flink.apache.org Subject: Re: Using Slack for online discussions > > +1 > > > > Regards > > JB > > > > On 03/29/2018 07:22 PM, Thomas Weise wrote: > >> How does the community think about using ASF Slack for online > discussions? > >> > >> The Beam project started to use it recently and it seems to work quite > well > >> [1] [2]. > >> > >> [1] > >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1bee60193823a8411dcfad7a6de695 > ac1d779ae5d14f7b954ffa5961@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E > >> [2] > >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b82871dc16b63a4e74cd6373405361 > dfbd75810073f98542ba82ed41@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Thomas > >> > >
