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Re:Slack's bait and switch by cup-of-tea on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:07AM (#16568189)
And is that an acceptable paper trail? If you break something can you show your bosses "look, Jack thumbs-upped me on Slack!"
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Re:Slack's bait and switch by root_crontab on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:45AM (#16568444)
It is a perfectly adequate paper trail. It's much easier to check in a postmortem than shouting something across the desk. Like code review, because you know your approval will be recorded irrevocably, you just think it through that little bit extra before approving.
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Re:Slack's bait and switch by wgjordan on Monday March 12, 2018 @11:29AM (#16568771)
Well, you can undo your own reactions, so not 'irrevocably'.
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Re:Slack's bait and switch by pavel_lishin on Monday March 12, 2018 @10:36AM (#16568365)
We typically do something similar in Hipchat - "Hey, I'm about to push to prod, any objections?" "No, go for it."
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