2018-08-16 19:27 GMT+02:00 Andrew Halberstadt <a...@mozilla.com>: > To be clear, I think there are a large number of (mostly non > developer) teams whose day to day communications need to be > private. Using Slack in those instances seems absolutely fine to > me. > > But if we're serious about supporting our community (and I really > hope most of us still are), then we need to be crystal clear about > when it is and isn't appropriate to use Slack. Simply having any > sort of official policy on this would go a long way! >
To completely prevent fragmentation and network effects in competing tools, I think it would be preferable if we had one tool that covers the use cases of both IRC and Slack, that is open by default and where we could make channels private if needed. dao > > Cheers, > Andrew > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:38 AM Dão Gottwald via governance < > governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
