Code comments + Slack. GitHub and Slack search are great if you know how to use them and I have yet to find something I couldn’t answer with these tools.
People like to say “Slack isn’t documentation” but in reality it’s a better documentation than some outdated Wiki nobody is touching.
Slack is all fun and games until someone pins a password in some channel and now your security team is demanding that all slack messages are deleted after 30 days.
A Slack channel where an issue was discussed publicly, with both the debugging process and the final solution, is priceless. But it only happens with people who also think that.
My experience has been that most info is lost in DMs and video calls. When I helped coworkers, I had to be the one posting the info on public channels if I didn't want to be solving the same problem next week, next month, and half a year later.
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Code comments + Slack. GitHub and Slack search are great if you know how to use them and I have yet to find something I couldn’t answer with these tools.
People like to say “Slack isn’t documentation” but in reality it’s a better documentation than some outdated Wiki nobody is touching.
Slack is all fun and games until someone pins a password in some channel and now your security team is demanding that all slack messages are deleted after 30 days.
A Slack channel where an issue was discussed publicly, with both the debugging process and the final solution, is priceless. But it only happens with people who also think that.
My experience has been that most info is lost in DMs and video calls. When I helped coworkers, I had to be the one posting the info on public channels if I didn't want to be solving the same problem next week, next month, and half a year later.