[Biopython] How many of you are on Slack?

[Martin Mokrejs]

Dear all,
  me too, although I have to use Slack for a project I don't like it. And am on second slack channel to which which don't even login using a different email address. I don't have time to follow all the notices, sorry. If you wan to convert biopython-dev to Slack just do it, it affects few people. It is at least clearer than IRC. While shutting down the email list you will probably loose some readers. Myself I am not going to re-register. I guess others who won't speak will also just disregard if they stop receiving emails from the list.

  I am loosing track of biopython development as I did not migrate apps to python3, did not switch away from matplotlib, well, do as you wish. I am not actively contributing so my participation is not really relevant. If it is time burden to maintain the virtuals running mailman etc., well, ...

Best,
Martin
 

On 30/06/2021 23:38, Stéphane Téletchéa wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I understand the arguments of all others,
> 
> Le 28/06/2021 à 17:00, João Rodrigues a écrit :
>> An email is "passive": you subscribe and that's it, gets delivered to your inbox. It's also the lowest common denominator in terms of tech in the sense that everyone has/uses email.
> 
> But yes, I'm probably more traditional, email is asynchronous and I like that.
> 
> Personally I really HATE slack, too disperse for my brain, I've worked with it for one year and this was awful and very time consuming,
> I'm also using regularly Mattermost and I also dislike it a lot. Students say it is wonderful, but this was really because we were confined
> that I had accepted to work like this (taking too much time to be productive).
> 
> Considering google groups, I also HATE it as google mail etc. I'm also concerned about the
> "we cut without delay this service as we don't want to run it anymore" policy of Google that happened already on many of their past services.
> 
> This is probably only me but I have a very well organised mail box with many synchronised mails (sometimes on one computer, sometimes on another one),
> and that fits my needs.
> 
> If you close the mailing list, then I'd follow, but the existing situation is ok to me.
> 
> Considering the overhead of running different systems, I completely understand the need to leverage it,
> but I'm not sure there are reliable long-term solutions really available.
> 
> My 0.02 cents/pennies.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Stéphane
>