On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 08:44 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 02:36:08PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > To set the cat among the pigeons a bit, it'd sure be interesting to > > consider setting up one of the F/OSS Slack-alikes for Fedora > > use...of > > course, there's a question of at what point we have too many tools. > > I'd be very much in favor of something which lowers the barrier to > participation here. IRC isn't hard once you're used to it, but > NickServ, ChanServ, Zodbot, etc., add a layer of confusion and > complication. It's not just newbies and non-geeks that we're shutting > out. Only a small percentage of tech people - sysadmins, developers, > etc. - have a working familiarity with IRC. > > It'd be especially nice to have something which could integrate with > FAS and with the Fedora Hubs. The only thing that concerns me is that at that point we'd have the new thing, IRC, Ask, *and* the mailing lists, soon with Hyperkitty which in some senses overlaps with all the others. All of these are good things but would we have a coherent story about why we had all of them, and would it just make it a nightmare to find the right information / person? Slack and its clones tend to want to be The Thing You Use To Communicate, I think, perhaps grudgingly allowing space for email to communicate with all those tiresome people from the 2000s... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
