It’s definitely a problematic situation and I think it demonstrates how Mozilla is drifting more and more from its manifesto and values towards a more corporate and closed community. Mozilla embraces more closed practices today than it did just a few years ago.
And it’s surely not benefitting the contributions as we have less contributors today than we did a few years ago. Sincerely, Benjamin Kerensa On Aug 16, 2018, 7:38 AM -0700, Dão Gottwald via governance <governance@lists.mozilla.org>, wrote: > The use of Slack at Mozilla has bothered me for a while. So far I managed > to pretty much ignore Slack. I feel left out sometimes but it hasn't been a > big deal, as far as I can tell. (Of course, since I don't have an account, > I don't know how much exactly I've been missing.) > > Now this issue came up again in > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460248#c18 when a user asked > a question about a UX design that I implemented. These kind of discussions > in closed bugs usually don't go anywhere, so I asked the user to take it to > a mailing list or IRC. The user posted to #ux and never got a response. > This can happen in channels with low usage, but Timvde let me know that > this IRC channel has effectively been dead since the team has moved to > Slack. > > I'm using the above merely as an example. I don't want this e-mail to be > about the UX team. Instead I'd like to revisit why we allow if not > encourage people to use Slack rather than IRC in the first place. > > AFAIK Slack is only available to Mozilla staff and volunteers who've signed > our NDA. It's my understanding that communication at Mozilla should be open > by default, and the rest is sufficiently covered by e-mail, private > meetings and restricted bugs. Why are we on Slack? > > Thanks, > dao > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
