The use of Slack at Mozilla has bothered me for a while. So far I managed to pretty much ignore Slack. I feel left out sometimes but it hasn't been a big deal, as far as I can tell. (Of course, since I don't have an account, I don't know how much exactly I've been missing.)
Now this issue came up again in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460248#c18 when a user asked a question about a UX design that I implemented. These kind of discussions in closed bugs usually don't go anywhere, so I asked the user to take it to a mailing list or IRC. The user posted to #ux and never got a response. This can happen in channels with low usage, but Timvde let me know that this IRC channel has effectively been dead since the team has moved to Slack. I'm using the above merely as an example. I don't want this e-mail to be about the UX team. Instead I'd like to revisit why we allow if not encourage people to use Slack rather than IRC in the first place. AFAIK Slack is only available to Mozilla staff and volunteers who've signed our NDA. It's my understanding that communication at Mozilla should be open by default, and the rest is sufficiently covered by e-mail, private meetings and restricted bugs. Why are we on Slack? Thanks, dao _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
