Slack is real time and handles multiple access points really seamlessly. Thus, I get a ding on my phone only if I am not logged in on my laptop. It scours discussions for keywords so that I can ignore things mostly and yet still pop in when the topics turn to what I need to be involved in.
Email is a disaster for such real-time interactive sorts of conversations. Slack is perfect for this. On the other hand, an archived mailing list threaded by topic is *much* easier for understanding the discussions that went on to get to a decision. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Barclay <[email protected]> wrote: > Is Slack threaded as e-mail is? (If not, and you can't see messages > grouped by subject (that is, if it's the case that you can't see the tree > of messages for a subject without wading through irrelevant messages that > occurred at intervening times), how is Slack better than using the existing > e-mail lists?) > > Also, should we really be siphoning discussion away from the public Apache > Drill mailing lists and into the private Slack enviroment? (Or did I miss > some public way to see what's in Slack?) > > Daniel > > > > Jacques Nadeau wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> We've been using Slack a lot internally and have found it very useful. I >> setup a new slack for Drill developers and users. I've set it to >> automatically accept new users from @apache.org as well as @mapr.com, @ >> maprtech.com and @dremio.com. I'm more than happy to whitelist other >> domains (but slack won't let me enable general domains such as gmail and >> yahoo). >> >> If you aren't on one the whitelisted domains, just send me an email and >> I'll invite you (or add your domain as appropriate). >> >> Remember, these channels should be used for help as opposed to making >> design decisions. My goal is also to post a digest once a week from the >> channels back on to the list so that the information is publicly >> available. >> >> I set up two initial channels: #user and #dev. >> >> Let's see if this makes things easier for everybody. >> >> To Join, go to: https://drillers.slack.com/signup >> >> >> -- >> Jacques Nadeau >> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio >> >> > > -- > Daniel Barclay > MapR Technologies > >
