Communication

The dev community supports several communication channels.  Each mode serves a different purpose:

• Slack

  • For messages that are transient/short-lived.  Good for real-time discussion and project messaging.  No guarantee messages are persisted forever.

  • #dev is reserved for tool notifications.  Humans shouldn't generally post here as it will get lost among automated notifications

  • #general for most OpenLMIS messages

  • #toolbox for tools and techniques relevant to the OpenLMIS' tech stack

  • #random for non-project FYIs, relevant articles and links, etc.

• Conflu/JIRA

  • Issue tracking, project management, Epics, Stories, etc.

  • Discussion on specific bugs, stories, etc. should use the Comment facility on the JIRA issues, NOT private emails.

• Email

  • If an email thread veers to generating discussions/decisions that should be public per a healthy open source project, move it to a community forum.