Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
Date	2015-11-04 18:28 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
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On 2015-11-04, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2015-11-02, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> writes:
>>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>>> Good post - it caught my eye too.  I found the article itself somewhat 
>>>> 'rant'-y, but there's a good thread at hackernews that goes into how 
>>>> this differs from - or is similar to - IRC, whether IRC shortcomings can 
>>>> be overcome, and whether it's worth managing your own chat platform for 
>>>> (presumably) a workgroup of developers.
>>>
>>> We used both usenet and IRC on the trading floor at a previous employers
>>> of mine. The users liked them.
>>
>> We use IRC internally, and very valuable it is too.  Attempts to replace
>> it have largely been ignored and instead its use has spread across
>> multiple sites as we’ve become more integrated.  It has its limitations
>> but we have email, wikis, an internal pastebin-workalike, telephones and
>> so on and so forth.
>
> The company I joined in 1998 was using Lotus Notes for much of this and
> it worked very well.  

There are many things that can be said about Lotus Notes, but "worked very well" is none of them.

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              attitude, that's your problem.

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Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-11-01 15:32 +0000
  Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-01 22:05 +0300
    Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-11-02 11:14 +0000
      Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-11-02 12:25 +0000
        Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-11-04 11:38 +0100
          Re: Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-11-04 18:28 +0000

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