Vote: Slack vs Github Issues?

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A library for scientific machine learning and physics-informed learning

https://deepxde.readthedocs.io

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Vote: Slack vs Github Issues? #371

Open lululxvi opened 3 years ago

lululxvi commented 3 years ago

Currently, "Github Issues" is the only platform for Q&A and discussion. I consider if it is necessary to have a Slack channel.

Slack channel is definitely a more convenient platform for interactive communication, but unfortunately, I don't have enough time to read and reply Slack messages quickly. I reply to all the questions in Github issues, but as you can see usually with a few days delay. Hence, if only I will answer the question in Slack, then there is no difference between Slack and Github Issues. However, if many users would like to join the discussion, then Slack seems a good way to try.

Let us have a vote here on if we should use Slack. If you would love to use Slack and join the discussion with other users, please leave a comment here. I will create a Slack channel if enough people would like to.

Also, welcome any other suggestions on how we can help each other!

AndreaPi commented 3 years ago

I think https://www.discourse.org/ would be a better platform than Slack. It's used by many great communities in DL such as

https://discuss.pytorch.org/ https://forums.pytorchlightning.ai/ https://discourse.julialang.org/ https://forums.fast.ai/

etc. Otherwise, a very low-effort alternative is https://docs.github.com/en/discussions. Many repositories are using GitHub Discussions to offer a proper forum for Q&A, rather than abusing the GitHub issues.

NouamaneTazi commented 2 years ago

Any updates about this? I would love to start contributing to this amazing library!

lululxvi commented 2 years ago

My current decision is

For questions and Q&A on DeepXDE, we will still use GitHub issues and Discussions. https://www.discourse.org/ is a great platform, but at this moment, it seems that GitHub issues/Discussions seems good enough.
For DeepXDE developers, I create a slack channel. Send me an email if you would like to contribute the code, and I will add you to the slack channel.

engsbk commented 2 years ago

Can you add me to the slack channel, please?

lululxvi commented 2 years ago

Can you add me to the slack channel, please?

Send me an email, or write down your email here, and then I will send you the slack invitation.

NouamaneTazi commented 2 years ago

Can you add me to the slack channel, please?

Send me an email, or write down your email here, and then I will send you the slack invitation.

nouamane98@gmail.com