If we want to push more discussion to the dev list, my obvious follow up question then is "What are we hoping to get out of Slack/irc/other interactive medium?". What discussion would we even want on there, if we can't have decisions and don't want usage/support?
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:44 PM Casey Stella <ceste...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am of 2 minds, but I tend to agree. On the one hand, it's definitely the > preference that we use the mailing lists for the reasons you stated (and > also because not everyone has access to slack generally). On the other > hand, I think an interactive medium like Slack has a lot of advantages in > terms of user satisfaction. Ultimately, though, we may satisfy 1 user at > the cost of not persisting the discussion and satisfying many users. > > I'll go along with a specific preference to drive more discussion to the > mailing list. > > Casey > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:18 PM Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org> wrote: > > > It seems that we are seeing a lot of Metron usage and support questions > on > > the Slack Channel. > > These are questions that previously would have been directed to the User > or > > Dev mailing lists. Since this is occurring in the Slack Channel, the > > conversations are not archived. > > > > In my opinion, this is not good for the Metron community. Having this > > persisted in a discoverable form (like a mailing list archive) not only > > helps support current users, but also helps *potential* users understand > > how Metron is being used. > > > > Does anyone else agree or disagree? At a minimum, I feel we need to do > > something to direct these conversations back to the mailing list. > > >
