The invite link is self service. Everyone can signup. As for the searchable record, it may be possible to archive what's posted on the slack channel by subscribing the mailing list.
I think a communication platform like Slack or IRC complements email, the type of messages there would typically be different from email threads. Thanks, Thomas On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is the lack of searchable public record (of Slack) that we should be > concerned with. > > Also, requiring invitation would be bottleneck for the growth of > participants. > > Cheers > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:11 AM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > >> > > > > > > > > >
