[SeasonOfDocs] Slack channel

[Jo Cook]

Yes yes yes to staying with email. When you're in multiple timezones and
trying to balance work with other projects, email works best IMHO.
Archiving is hugely important too.

Jo

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:41 AM María Arias de Reyna <delawen at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> El jue., 4 jul. 2019 7:18, matteo <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com> escribió:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm also in favor to stay on mailing lists. After 7+ years of experience
>> with QGIS and other software I find working with email great because:
>>
>> * I have all the work to do (= mail to read) in one place
>> * don't loose threads: I just leave the emails as "to read" and I can be
>> updated even after days when I couldn't be active because of reasons
>> * archiving. The last week it too me 2 minutes to find a solution (that
>> I knew was posted on the QGIS mailing list) of 2015
>> * emails are not chat. It could not be our case, but when someone ask or
>> posts something on slack like channels (s)he expects to have an
>> immediate answer while with emails you have to be more patience
>>
>> Anyway.. If moving to slack like channel we have to choose some open
>> source alternative. Zero experience here, but what about
>> https://www.mattermost.org/
>
>
> Mattermost is awesome and easy to deploy. Give me an ssh access and I can
> do it myself.
>
> But I also prefer emails. I have enough places to monitor already, another
> url/app to look will be too much.
>
> And email discussions are much more organized, even more organized than in
> slack like platforms,where it is easy to mix topics on the same channel
> because "I'm not going to open a full new channel for this small thing" .
>
> On email you have no limit to the number of threads you open. And each
> person can decide to ignore or mute each thread individually.
>
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matteo
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