Hi, Alex: I should clarify that I am "Slack-curious" in relation to Royale. I needed to discuss some things with an ASF staffer and he said that he did not see me on the ASF Slack workspace, and asked how come. To that point, I had not known there WAS such a workspace. That made me curious about whether it was a resource Royale might consider using in some situations.
There are several Royale email threads where the conversations would have been shorter, clearer, and possibly more productive if we had carried them out in real-time, rather than firing increasingly-exasperated email messages back and forth; but I don't think anyone can tell IN ADVANCE which question is going to generate a wrangle by email that might be avoided in a near-live discussion. I find it easier to search a Slack thread for a keyword than to do the same thing across all the Royale-related emails in which it might have appeared, and I know I have mislaid valuable Royale-related information by not extracting it from the email thread when I saw it, rather than presuming I could find it again. This may be mainly due to my own failure to curate the information that I personally need, and others may not experience this problem. Slack channels within the workspace are free, so I may set one up for Royale to have it ready against the time when it might be useful. If I do, I will mention its name (in an email haha) so others on dev will know it is there. Andrew On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 4:02 AM Alex Harui <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that Stack Overflow solves a different problem that Slack does for > other projects. > > Andrew, if you are still interested in Slack, can you think of a couple of > Royale conversations from any of our mailing lists/forums/whatever that > you think would have worked better on Slack? I suppose that some editing > of the documentation/website would be better done on IRC since it isn't > super important to most of the subscribers to dev@, but you can certainly > ask the few other people you are working with to choose a chat-app on an > ad-hoc basis for that one discussion if it isn't going to result in some > decision or if the decision will be proposed on dev@ after the chat wraps > up. > > IIRC, the projects I've heard that are using Slack at the ASF have a set > of paid committers that work at the same time on interrelated stuff. > Certain teams within Adobe use Slack but I don't since I don't collaborate > with other Adobe engineers. For the most part, I don't need to be plugged > into any team effort on Royale most of the time. I'm not sure there are > many committers who work on framework code every day. > > My 2 cents, > -Alex > > Andrew Wetmore http://cottage14.blogspot.com/
