> I'm fine with using chat channels for watercooler-style throwaway > discussions which are brought back here if they become more > substantial.
On the paper i'm fine with it too. However experience shows that very substantial questions / answers end up drowned in slack channels, and thus asked several times (basically each time someone ask himself that very same question), that every one will need to read several times, and then answer several times. We are far from the model of digging answers in the archive, reading a few threads, and finally redact the question. That whole process is definitely a hurdle and a burden if you measure one developer's time, but slack channel / instant messaging is a hurdle and a burden to the whole community's cumulated time. Le mar. 21 janv. 2020 à 08:45, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]> a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:24 AM Andreas Schaefer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...Slack would help to ask, discuss and answer questions around such > topics quickly and > > with relative ease.... > > But those questions won't be easily accessible to others, which is IMO > a big drawback. > > I'm fine with using chat channels for watercooler-style throwaway > discussions which are brought back here if they become more > substantial. > > For Q&A I'd much prefer something like Stack Overflow - IIRC there > were concerns about their licence for code that people post there > however, we should check that if that's desirable. > > -Bertrand >
