+1 for having a user mailing list.

Do we envision the slack bot to be used for people in slack to participate
in user list conversations, or the other way around, or both?

Allowing people in slack to participate in user list conversations seems
pretty achievable. Allowing people in the user list to participate in slack
conversations means to forward all conversations in slack to the user list
and might be quite noisy. But the advantage is that people would be able to
search for those Slack questions and answers on the internet. Maybe we can
consider a separated "slack" mailing list for that purpose.

Best,
Jack Ye

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 8:16 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
wrote:

> AFAIR, some ASF projects are using slackbot to receive users requests
> from the mailing list and can send messages to the mailing list.
>
> Let me do a quick research and get back to you.
>
> Regards
> JB
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:14 PM Brian Olsen <bitsondata...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I do like the idea of making the Slack threads available through the
> mailing list. Is there a slack bot you have in mind? How would the threads
> appear in the mailing list?
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 7:13 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> If we have a few user questions on the dev mailing list, we have quite
> >> a number on Slack.
> >> It's completely fine but not easy to search the questions and find the
> >> concrete answer.
> >>
> >> As most other Apache projects do, I propose to create a user mailing
> >> list to invite people to ask questions and request help.
> >> This mailing list can be browsed and searched on
> >> https://lists.apache.org/ and can be moderated.
> >> We can use slackbot to create a "bridge" between slack and the user
> >> mailing list.
> >>
> >> Thoughts ?
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> JB
>

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