I propose we keep the mailing list, and get back on Freenode for support instead of slack. In fact, I think we should move all openshift discussions that are not confidential to freenode.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 10:12 AM Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I think the Common's use of Slack is not a good match for "support". > Requiring an invitation is also an impediment to quickly asking questions. > Further Slack is proprietary, and also any discussion there won't be easily > found by Google. > > On the other hand we have these mailing lists, which are fine but they're > traditional mailing lists with all the tradeoffs there. > > I propose we shut down the user@ and dev@ lists and deploy a Discourse > instance, which is what the cool kids ;) are doing: > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/ > http://internals.rust-lang.org/ > etc. > > Discourse is IMO really nice because for people who want a mailing list it > can act like that, but for people who both want a modern web UI and most > importantly just want to drop in occasionally and not be committed to > receiving a stream of email, it works a lot better. Also importantly to me > it's FOSS. > > I would also personally lean towards not using Slack too but I see that as a > separate discussion - it's real time, and that's a distinct thing from > discourse. If we get a lot of momentum in our Discourse though over Slack we > can consider what to do later. > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openshift.redhat.com/openshiftmm/listinfo/dev -- Michael Gugino Senior Software Engineer - OpenShift [email protected] 540-846-0304 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openshift.redhat.com/openshiftmm/listinfo/dev
