Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-03 Thread Matt Sicker
I believe it is a technical issue. Otherwise, I could disable GitHub notifications for anything in the Apache org and rely entirely on emails sent to either dev@ or commits@ or whichever list a project uses for notifications. While you can reply to a commit email from gitbox and have it go

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-03 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le jeu. 3 mars 2022 à 14:46, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > > Yep. > > The Apache Git Service emails have no chances to work. You have to > subscribe to the project notification by creating an account in GitHub This is what several people in this thread said (IIUC) would be unacceptable for

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-03 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le mer. 2 mars 2022 à 18:40, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > > > > > > > > > 1. make sure foundation itself provides an MVP for at least two > > styles of communication channels ("topic grouped channels" > > and "instant messaging channels"). We've got email and perhaps > > Matrix could

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-03 Thread Jarek Potiuk
Yep. The Apache Git Service emails have no chances to work. You have to subscribe to the project notification by creating an account in GitHub and providing the email address where you will receive notifications. It would not be possible otherwise by GitHub to know who you are (you receive an

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-03 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. >>> [...] > > > * Point 2. But even if I missed it - for Github Discussions it is enough > > > to > > > reply to the email you get - with your personal email. You must have > > > missed > > > the point as well. It's full interaction, you "reply-to" and your entry is > > > part of the

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-02 Thread Jarek Potiuk
Just to clarify "official Apache docs" not "official Airflow docs". BTW. This is case in the point - > I realized I made a mental mistake and put "Airflow" in my message where I meant "Apache" and now I have to correct it this way. In Github Discussion I would just correct it and no-one would

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-02 Thread Jarek Potiuk
> > > > 1. make sure foundation itself provides an MVP for at least two > styles of communication channels ("topic grouped channels" > and "instant messaging channels"). We've got email and perhaps > Matrix could be a good enough answer to the 2nd requirement. > That would be

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 7:09 PM Rich Bowen wrote: > > > >> I still fail to understand the reason for looking for alternatives to > >> MLs for managing ASF projects... > > It's less a question of us looking for alternatives, and more a question > of observing the broader open source community and

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-02 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 9:23 PM Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Le mar. 1 mars 2022 à 20:12, Mark Thomas a écrit : > > ...Why re-invert the wheel? > > > > https://matrix.org/ ... > > Would we need to run our own Matrix servers if we want to make it an > alternative for our projects? > > Using

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-02 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le mar. 1 mars 2022 à 23:05, Bill Cole a écrit : > ...I would actively oppose anything at the foundation level that requires > contributors to have *any* account with *any* specific 3rd party for > full participation... Good point, agreed, and that needs to be part of our requirements if we want

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-01 Thread Bill Cole
On 2022-03-01 at 14:58:03 UTC-0500 (Tue, 1 Mar 2022 14:58:03 -0500) Rich Bowen is rumored to have said: On 2/28/22 17:00, Tomasz Urbaszek wrote: This is just idea but Github is common to every project. It's something we all have, so why not start there? Nope. Github is *not* common to

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le mar. 1 mars 2022 à 20:12, Mark Thomas a écrit : > ...Why re-invert the wheel? > > https://matrix.org/ ... Would we need to run our own Matrix servers if we want to make it an alternative for our projects? Using https://matrix.org/docs/projects/server/synapse ? (which is written in Python -

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-01 Thread Rich Bowen
On 2/28/22 17:00, Tomasz Urbaszek wrote: This is just idea but Github is common to every project. It's something we all have, so why not start there? Nope. Github is *not* common to every project. And moreover, requiring a Github account to participate (fully participate) in an Apache

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-01 Thread Mark Thomas
On 01/03/2022 19:02, Dave Fisher wrote: I want to go back to here with an idea. On Feb 18, 2022, at 5:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: -Project channels must be public, async, archived on ASF-owned services and searchable -Project channels must be usable with open source clients

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-01 Thread Dave Fisher
I want to go back to here with an idea. > On Feb 18, 2022, at 5:38 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz > wrote: > > -Project channels must be public, async, archived on ASF-owned > services and searchable > -Project channels must be usable with open source clients (hmmm..Slack?) > -All decisions and votes

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-03-01 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le lun. 28 févr. 2022 à 23:01, Tomasz Urbaszek a écrit : > > I'm reading this discussion from the beginning (thanks to ML). I can be > mistaken but there are two issues: > > 1. A community communication channel. A place where users can interact, > discuss and seek help. This should be a place for

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Tomasz Urbaszek
I'm reading this discussion from the beginning (thanks to ML). I can be mistaken but there are two issues: 1. A community communication channel. A place where users can interact, discuss and seek help. This should be a place for users and the community should use whatever serves best. 2. Decision

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Jarek Potiuk
> > > Will someone be granted commit access, and become PMC > member without providing an email address? > Why not if the mailing list is not mandatory? But I think it's not a matter of "having" a mailing address. It's more about subscribing and actively discussing using the devlist. Those two

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le lun. 28 févr. 2022 à 19:09, Rich Bowen a écrit : > > > > >> I still fail to understand the reason for looking for alternatives to > >> MLs for managing ASF projects... > > It's less a question of us looking for alternatives, and more a question > of observing the broader open source community

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Rich Bowen
I still fail to understand the reason for looking for alternatives to MLs for managing ASF projects... It's less a question of us looking for alternatives, and more a question of observing the broader open source community and seeing that the younger/newer participants in this space want

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Matt Sicker
Another chat solution to consider is Zulip [0]. Zulip's UI encourages all chat messages to go under an appropriate thread which makes it a bit easier to use for asynchronous communication. I think one of the difficult aspects of using something like Slack or IRC for development is a lack of nice

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Jarek Potiuk
> > > This is much easier to manage on any channel than "talking to the > group" which is IMO required for Apache-style development. > > What I mean is: > -Everybody sees the topics of all conversations fly by > -It's easy to ignore specific or most conversations > -It's easy to catch up after N

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-28 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Jarek, Le dim. 27 févr. 2022 à 23:11, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > ...I use slack for async communication a lot. Including > underrepresented in IT Outreachy (https://www.outreachy.org/) interns that > I am mentoring - from India, Peru and Nigeria that I am interacting with > them over the last

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Jarek Potiuk
> > > I'm not trying to argue about others's people preference; any tool > can be used. It's just that I don't think that "it's newer/graphical" is > a reason for change. > It's not. I think main reason is it is more accessible, allows to edit your answers and correct typos, works in the browser

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 11:59 PM Gilles Sadowski wrote: > Le dim. 27 févr. 2022 à 23:11, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > > > > > > > > It rather seems to me that tools targeted to synchronous > > > communication are quite bad for asynchronous usage. > > > > > > > I quite disagree, I use slack for

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le dim. 27 févr. 2022 à 23:11, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > > > > > It rather seems to me that tools targeted to synchronous > > communication are quite bad for asynchronous usage. > > > > I quite disagree, I use slack for async communication a lot. Including > underrepresented in IT Outreachy

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 10:55 PM Gilles Sadowski wrote: > Le dim. 27 févr. 2022 à 21:13, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > Do any of the mentioned alternatives fulfill those requirements? > > > > > > > I think most - with very little investment on taking backup (same as we > do > >

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Jarek Potiuk
> > It rather seems to me that tools targeted to synchronous > communication are quite bad for asynchronous usage. > I quite disagree, I use slack for async communication a lot. Including underrepresented in IT Outreachy (https://www.outreachy.org/) interns that I am mentoring - from India, Peru

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le dim. 27 févr. 2022 à 21:13, Jarek Potiuk a écrit : > > > > > > > Do any of the mentioned alternatives fulfill those requirements? > > > > I think most - with very little investment on taking backup (same as we do > with ponymail today). It rather seems to me that tools targeted to synchronous

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 9:13 PM Jarek Potiuk wrote: > > > > > > Do any of the mentioned alternatives fulfill those requirements? > > > > I think most - with very little investment on taking backup (same as we do > with ponymail today). > > Two examples: > > *

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi tison! On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:06 PM tison wrote: > Hi Roman, > > I noticed your summary and focus on user-facing channels. Comments inline. > > Roman Shaposhnik 于2022年2月22日 周二23:32写道: > > > Thanks for all the feedback so far. If I were to summarize what's been > > expressed > > on this

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-27 Thread Jarek Potiuk
> > > Do any of the mentioned alternatives fulfill those requirements? > I think most - with very little investment on taking backup (same as we do with ponymail today). Two examples: * http://apache-airflow.slack-archives.org/ Apache Airflow public slack. searchable and owned by us: Developed

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-25 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le jeu. 17 févr. 2022 à 17:58, Matt Sicker a écrit : > > [...] GitHub's integration > with email for its various notification things (where you can reply > directly to the email to have your message posted back to GitHub) > makes the concept a bit more of a two-way street similar to the git >

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-25 Thread XiaoYu
I agree with Ted Liu that many projects need a free way to communicate, but also to be common (English) and public. SO I think github discussions are a very good choice. Michael Sokolov 于2022年2月25日周五 20:52写道: > > Just my personal perspective as an aging white man, but if substantial > portion

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-25 Thread Michael Sokolov
Just my personal perspective as an aging white man, but if substantial portion of project discussions moved to an ephemeral communications channel, it would be on the one hand freeing since I wouldn't feel the obligation to wade through the tons of email when I catch up every few days, but on the

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-23 Thread Willem Jiang
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 2:06 AM tison wrote: > Of course, it requires more community members who can answer user questions. > > To sum up, you CAN have multiple channels for answering user questions and > collect best practices. Whether or not it's fragmented is up to (1) whether > or not you

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-23 Thread tison
Hi Roman, I noticed your summary and focus on user-facing channels. Comments inline. Roman Shaposhnik 于2022年2月22日 周二23:32写道: > Thanks for all the feedback so far. If I were to summarize what's been > expressed > on this thread so far, it seems that we're all agreeing that: >1. Even if

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-23 Thread Peter Kovacs
Am 23.02.22 um 13:37 schrieb Jim Jagielski: On Feb 23, 2022, at 1:32 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: Imho the kids from today communicate more asynchroneus then the generation is 30+ is used to. (General speaking, not just the Open Source Group activist point of view) I'd be curious about how

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On 2/22/22 17:30, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Feb 22, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: Very consistently, at least at Red Hat, the white men over 30 agree with my perspective and EVERYONE ELSE thinks that more synchronous discussion venues are preferable. Maybe because the current

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Feb 23, 2022, at 1:32 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > Imho the kids from today communicate more asynchroneus then the generation is > 30+ is used to. (General speaking, not just the Open Source Group activist > point of view) I'd be curious about how you think that... The generation 30+

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-22 Thread Peter Kovacs
Not that I know the discussion. Sorry from throwing in an argument from the sideline. ;) What about look into delta Chat [1]? It is the try to combine Mail with modern chat approach. Just because email has been a good feature it does not mean it can not go with time. Just an idea. Am

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-22 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Feb 22, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: > > Very consistently, at least at Red Hat, the white men over 30 agree with my > perspective and EVERYONE ELSE thinks that more synchronous discussion venues > are preferable. > Maybe because the current generation never needed to worry

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-22 Thread Phil Steitz
Really thoughtful and insightful message, Rich.  I agree with your main point and see kind of the same thing in the mirror.  That said, I agree with the requirements that Mark Thomas has posted several times (which thankfully, are easily found in the list archives :). I have one comment on

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-22 Thread Rich Bowen
I've been thinking about this topic for the last few months, and have become more and more convinced that it's more than *just* a generational issue. It's also an inclusion issue. I recently wrote the following in an email to a colleague: I have long had very strong opinions about the

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-22 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 10:19 AM Zhiyuan Ju wrote: > Hi, > > I involved in the Apache APISIX Community since 2019, and I would prefer to > keep using the mailing list than other ways. There have been > some challenges like not a friendly way to discuss codes, not every > volunteer or

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-21 Thread Zhiyuan Ju
Hi, I involved in the Apache APISIX Community since 2019, and I would prefer to keep using the mailing list than other ways. There have been some challenges like not a friendly way to discuss codes, not every volunteer or contributor watching the mailing list, and so on, but there also have

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, Le mer. 16 févr. 2022 à 13:50, Roman Shaposhnik a écrit : > ...while the classical ASF communication culture is pretty squarely > centered around mailing lists it has become apparent in recent > years that some of our communities (especially younger ones) > prefer using alternative channels

Re: Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-18 Thread Jarek Potiuk
the end we just produce a new "email grave" for > emails that are only usable as an excuse, I wouldn't want to see that. > > Chris > > > -Original Message- > From: Jarek Potiuk > Sent: Freitag, 18. Februar 2022 11:11 > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re:

RE: Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-18 Thread Christofer Dutz
ave" for emails that are only usable as an excuse, I wouldn't want to see that. Chris -Original Message- From: Jarek Potiuk Sent: Freitag, 18. Februar 2022 11:11 To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities I think w

Re: Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-18 Thread Jarek Potiuk
I think we can use many tools but when it comes to practicalities - I also think we should consider the important factor which is how easy it is to "join" and possibly "migrate". For Airflow I think a huge benefit of GitHub discussions / Issues is that pretty much everyone is there already. No

Re: Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-18 Thread Hans Van Akelyen
Hi All, My 2 cents on the matter, we have an application (Apache Hop) that is mainly used by non developers so most of our questions are not of a technical nature but more general hand-holding and troubleshooting. Though it should be possible to do this via email you end up with a tread of 20

回复:Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-17 Thread Liu Ted
We do need a modernized and/or complimentary communication channel. On many choices we have, I am also for GitHub Discussions for the benefits as Matt Sicker described.  Another factor to consider is there is a Great Firewall (GFW) in China blocking many chat apps like Slack, Discord, Telegram,

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-17 Thread Matt Sicker
I like chat apps, though they're definitely more suited to real-time discussion. Note that the ASF Slack is a paid tier which has full archives, so any PMCs using their own Slack instances could potentially migrate to the ASF one. There may be more suitable chat apps for development use (e.g.,

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le mer. 16 févr. 2022 à 18:55, Mark Thomas a écrit : > > To repeat what I have written elsewhere on this topic in the past: > > Project communication channels should be: > > - Public. The decision making process should be open and visible to >everyone. It should also be easy for people to

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Mark Thomas
To repeat what I have written elsewhere on this topic in the past: Project communication channels should be: - Public. The decision making process should be open and visible to everyone. It should also be easy for people to find. - Searchable. So anyone can look-up past discussions. -

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Jarek Potiuk
For me (and I think I speak for a number of Airflow people) slack is great to keep casual discussions, help users with troubleshooting or do some brainstorming, and also to make announcements and ask people for opinions. But it's non-public by default and not easy to find stuff. For most of the

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Le mer. 16 févr. 2022 à 14:16, Gary Gregory a écrit : > > My assumption using Slack is that it is a convenience Provided that everyone has been informed that a discussion is going to take place there. What about the "asynchronicity" tenet of the "Apache Way"? > but that decisions > MUST be

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Geertjan Wielenga
I'm involved with Transposit (transposit.com), where they're creating a DevOps orchestration hub, including very strong Slack integration since more and more orgs are using Slack as their primary communication mechanism over e-mail and anything else. With my Apache NetBeans hat on, if we in the

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Gary Gregory
My assumption using Slack is that it is a convenience but that decisions MUST be reflected on a mailing list. Gary On Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 08:13 Trevor Grant wrote: > I shared in Comdev channel on ASF Slack that on the mahout slack we have a > convention that when we get to something that should

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Trevor Grant
I shared in Comdev channel on ASF Slack that on the mahout slack we have a convention that when we get to something that should be memorialized someone says, "This should really be reflected back to the list". And whoever says that has implicitly called "not it" for having to reflect it back- This

Re: Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Gary Gregory
Slack chat and video helped us tremendously on the Log4j team especially since Log4Shell. Gary On Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 07:50 Roman Shaposhnik wrote: > Hi! > > while the classical ASF communication culture is pretty squarely > centered around mailing lists it has become apparent in recent > years

Thoughts on alternative communication channels for our communities

2022-02-16 Thread Roman Shaposhnik
Hi! while the classical ASF communication culture is pretty squarely centered around mailing lists it has become apparent in recent years that some of our communities (especially younger ones) prefer using alternative channels of communication. The range is pretty wide from Slack to Telegram and