+1 for promoting discussions. I think having the Q&A and troubleshooting
close to repo is even better than stackoverflow.

Although I think we should more often use devlist, we should keep Slack for
quick and ad hoc communication as Ash and Kamil mentioned.

Tomek

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:11 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think we need to acknowledge that different people like solving problems
> in different ways - personally I prefer more interactive solving for
> example.
>
> Encouraging GitHub discussion is fine, but also there's some class of
> issues where I find a more real-time approach preferable (easier to ask
> clarifying questions, suggest extra debugging, quicker back and forth etc.)
>
> Not sure what I'm suggesting, other than slack still has a place for me.
>
> Ash
>
> On 23 December 2020 07:49:27 GMT, Deng Xiaodong <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> My only question is whether some other channels should be treated the
>> same way as well? For example, channel “#newbie-question”
>>
>>
>> XD
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 08:28 Sumit Maheshwari <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Big +1
>>>
>>> Another reason is that in Slack the history is very limited due to the
>>> free plan.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:35 AM Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I had a thought - should we start redirecting people and maybe even
>>>> disable the #troubleshooting channel in our Slack? (including our
>>>> "community" page and a note in #troubleshooting channel.
>>>>
>>>> I found Github Discussions vastly superior for all things
>>>> troubleshooting. It is indexed by search engines, you can mark the answer
>>>> as "answer", it's clearly threaded, it naturally fits into GitHub flow. You
>>>> use the same markdown as for the rest of GitHub ... You can categorise
>>>> discussions
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions
>>>>
>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>> J.
>>>>
>>>
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>>>>
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