Tal, thanks for bringing this up. I think it would be worthwhile adding this comment to the community page since this will probably come up from time to time. http://ariatosca.incubator.apache.org/community/
Arthur On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:41 PM Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, very much so. > > I would also point out that Slack generates summaries of > conversations to the channel > owners, which can be reflected back onto the mailing list. It also > preserves history for as long as > you set it to, so its effectively a mailing list. > > —Tom > > > > On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:51 PM, Tal Liron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, devs! > > > > As you have probably surmised from reading the digests sent to this list, > > there is a Slack channel where ARIA devs can chat. I thought it was for > > committers only, but in fact any contributor can join and talk to others > in > > a more real-time fashion. > > > > It's critical to understand that Slack is *not* a replacement for email. > > Slack is *not* a place for support questions: all those should to the dev > > mailing list, like they do now. Slack is for *coordination* of > development > > activities that are already in progress. > > > > ASF is email-centric by design. This ensures an even playing field for > > contributors from all time zones and with all variations of Internet > > accessibility. We should never use Slack to exclude anyone. > > > > With that in mind, if you think it would be useful for you, please > respond > > to this email with a request to be invited to Slack. We will use the same > > email you use here to invite you. > >
