Using Slack for discussions?

[James Bognar <ja...@salesforce.com>]

Any thoughts from the group about using Slack for usage questions?

The current email thread with Steve is more of a usage discussion.  Using
Slack might be better for these kinds of discussions since it allows for
immediate responses.  It appears the Netbeans project uses Slack for
communications that don't involve project decisions.

Vote?


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James Bognar

Re: Using Slack for discussions?

["John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org>]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:54 PM Craig Russell <cr...@oracle.com>
wrote:

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> > On Mar 22, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Craig Russell <cr...@oracle.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:10 PM, James Bognar <ja...@salesforce.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Any thoughts from the group about using Slack for usage questions?
> >>
> >> The current email thread with Steve is more of a usage discussion.
> Using
> >> Slack might be better for these kinds of discussions since it allows for
> >> immediate responses.  It appears the Netbeans project uses Slack for
> >> communications that don't involve project decisions.
> >
> > Two observations:
> >
> > - the discussion did not appear to me to have any time-critical items in
> it. There were hours if not days between responses
> >
> > - it would be difficult to transcribe/summarize a Slack discussion to
> bring it back to the dev list. So I guess that it would not have come back
> here
>
> That said, I have no objections to use of any real-time communications
> channels that the group wants to use, as long as there are no decisions
> made and all relevant communications come back to the dev list where
> everyone can see and discuss them.
>
>
This sums up my feelings as well.  Basically, if we summarize discussions
on slack back to the mailing list its not a problem.  Without that, there's
no real async communication though.


> Craig
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> >> Vote?
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> >> James Bognar
> >
> > Craig L Russell
> > clr@apache.org
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> >
>
> Craig L Russell
> Architect
> craig.russell@oracle.com
> P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!
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Re: Using Slack for discussions?

[Craig Russell <cr...@oracle.com>]

> On Mar 22, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Craig Russell <cr...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:10 PM, James Bognar <ja...@salesforce.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Any thoughts from the group about using Slack for usage questions?
>> 
>> The current email thread with Steve is more of a usage discussion.  Using
>> Slack might be better for these kinds of discussions since it allows for
>> immediate responses.  It appears the Netbeans project uses Slack for
>> communications that don't involve project decisions.
> 
> Two observations:
> 
> - the discussion did not appear to me to have any time-critical items in it. There were hours if not days between responses
> 
> - it would be difficult to transcribe/summarize a Slack discussion to bring it back to the dev list. So I guess that it would not have come back here

That said, I have no objections to use of any real-time communications channels that the group wants to use, as long as there are no decisions made and all relevant communications come back to the dev list where everyone can see and discuss them.

Craig
> 
> Craig
>> 
>> Vote?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> James Bognar
> 
> Craig L Russell
> clr@apache.org
> 
> 

Craig L Russell
Architect
craig.russell@oracle.com
P.S. A good JDO? O, Gasp!

Re: Using Slack for discussions?

[Craig Russell <cr...@oracle.com>]

> On Mar 22, 2017, at 4:10 PM, James Bognar <ja...@salesforce.com> wrote:
> 
> Any thoughts from the group about using Slack for usage questions?
> 
> The current email thread with Steve is more of a usage discussion.  Using
> Slack might be better for these kinds of discussions since it allows for
> immediate responses.  It appears the Netbeans project uses Slack for
> communications that don't involve project decisions.

Two observations:

- the discussion did not appear to me to have any time-critical items in it. There were hours if not days between responses

- it would be difficult to transcribe/summarize a Slack discussion to bring it back to the dev list. So I guess that it would not have come back here

Craig
> 
> Vote?
> 
> 
> -- 
> James Bognar

Craig L Russell
clr@apache.org