Agreed, the benefit of the mailing list is that it’s searchable by ponymail and the major search engines. On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 17:18 Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org> wrote:
> I don't know that it is the same kind of searchable. Is it being indexed > by the major search engines? I have never used a search engine and > uncovered the answer to my problem in a Slack archive. > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:05 PM Otto Fowler <ottobackwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > According to Greg Stein, an infra admin on the NiFi slack, the ASF slack > > that metron is in IS the standard plan, not the free one and is > searchable > > past 10,000 messages. > > > > > > > > On October 22, 2018 at 15:35:51, Michael Miklavcic ( > > michael.miklav...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > ...From an archival and broader reach point of view, I do think there's > > something to be said about using the mailing list. It's also easier to > link > > to Q/A threads from the mailing list archives and do searches... > > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1aa85bc13d41e04a1f85c3100c2b803abe35d79b54062bbeaab83ace@%3Cdev.metron.apache.org%3E > > > > How very Inception. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:32 PM Michael Miklavcic < > > michael.miklav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I just want to point out that we currently have 32 members in the > Metron > > > Slack channel which I personally think is a great sign. This is good > from > > a > > > community perspective and helps foster interactive sessions where > > required. > > > From an archival and broader reach point of view, I do think there's > > > something to be said about using the mailing list. It's also easier to > > link > > > to Q/A threads from the mailing list archives and do searches. As > such, I > > > would also go along with Nick's suggestion and urge members to prefer > the > > > user/dev list where possible. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 10:51 AM Justin Leet <justinjl...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> 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. > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > >
