[Biopython] How many of you are on Slack?

[João Rodrigues]

Hi Peter,

I am on Slack and I like Slack, but I would not retire the mailing list in
favor of Slack. Few reasons why: not everyone can/wants to use Slack;
Slack's free tier will not log more than 10k messages; and perhaps more
importantly, Slack messages are not searchable outside of Slack. I would
keep the mailing list around for those of us that cannot or don't want to
use Slack, as well as for announcements and other "important"
communications. Other than that, very much in favor of having a dedicated
Biopython Slack!

Cheers,

João

Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> escreveu no dia segunda, 28/06/2021
à(s) 05:59:

> Dear Biopythoneers,
>
> I am speaking here on behalf of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF),
> the umbrella project for Biopython etc which looks after our domain name,
> mailing lists, etc.
>
> We (the OBF) have been trying to reduce the amount of systems
> administration
> our all volunteer team have to look after, and mailman is one target.
> There has
> been a long term decline in Biopython's mailing list usage with more and
> more
> discussion happening on GitHub issues and pull requests instead.
>
> Have many of you are also Slack users, and would a #Biopython channel under
> the (currently little used) OBF slack be popular? As an aside, there
> is a separate
> more active OBF BOSC slack which may be of interest for the upcoming BOSC
> meeting as part of ISMB/ECCB 2021:
>
>
> https://join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/shared_invite/zt-n5ur1gsj-z2C~69_4lYTFPg5tbWA8Ew
>
> i.e. Might GitHub and Slack suffice to retire the Biopython mailing list?
>
> Peter
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