Re: [boost] [Boost-announce] Boost Asset Stewardship Review begins today (3rd Sept)

пн, 16 сент. 2024 г. в 12:02, Dominique Devienne via Boost :

On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 9:38 PM Christopher Kormanyos via Boost wrote:

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This idea is far from crazy. The two lists are redundant and competitive.

But so is Slack, which is often promoted over the ML anyway, especially for library devs.

Actually, the competition between Slack and ML is not that big. At least for now. Slack is a chat service, and the usual flow there is quick real time discussions. Whereas ML has a kind of "async" flow, where you post, and go along with your day, and then some time later you read all responses. This, IMO, why there wasn't much interest in a Boost Discourse server. Discourse is a forum, and forums have fundamentally the same async flow.

I don't even know if Slack is publicly searchable and linkable to, like the ML is. I get that it's more "instant" communication, yet it perhaps divides the community by having off-list discussions IMHO.

It's not publicly searchable (as in not indexed by search engines), but it is in fact linkable. You have to be signed into the workspace to follow the link, of course. By the way, on Slack we had a boost and a boost-users channels, but much less Boost authors were reading boost-users, and so questions were often left unanswered. And overall the latter channel saw little traffic. So, in the end it was removed. Maybe there's also no point to keep the boost-users list too?