+1 Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 5, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > > Slack is real time and handles multiple access points really seamlessly. > Thus, I get a ding on my phone only if I am not logged in on my laptop. It > scours discussions for keywords so that I can ignore things mostly and yet > still pop in when the topics turn to what I need to be involved in. > > Email is a disaster for such real-time interactive sorts of conversations. > Slack is perfect for this. > > On the other hand, an archived mailing list threaded by topic is *much* > easier for understanding the discussions that went on to get to a decision. > > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Barclay > wrote: > >> Is Slack threaded as e-mail is? (If not, and you can't see messages >> grouped by subject (that is, if it's the case that you can't see the tree >> of messages for a subject without wading through irrelevant messages that >> occurred at intervening times), how is Slack better than using the existing >> e-mail lists?) >> >> Also, should we really be siphoning discussion away from the public Apache >> Drill mailing lists and into the private Slack enviroment? (Or did I miss >> some public way to see what's in Slack?) >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> Jacques Nadeau wrote: >> >>> Hey Guys, >>> >>> We've been using Slack a lot internally and have found it very useful. I >>> setup a new slack for Drill developers and users. I've set it to >>> automatically accept new users from @apache.org as well as @mapr.com, @ >>> maprtech.com and @dremio.com. I'm more than happy to whitelist other >>> domains (but slack won't let me enable general domains such as gmail and >>> yahoo). >>> >>> If you aren't on one the whitelisted domains, just send me an email and >>> I'll invite you (or add your domain as appropriate). >>> >>> Remember, these channels should be used for help as opposed to making >>> design decisions. My goal is also to post a digest once a week from the >>> channels back on to the list so that the information is publicly >>> available. >>> >>> I set up two initial channels: #user and #dev. >>> >>> Let's see if this makes things easier for everybody. >>> >>> To Join, go to: https://drillers.slack.com/signup >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jacques Nadeau >>> CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio >> >> -- >> Daniel Barclay >> MapR Technologies >> >>