When a question is bridged from slack to discourd like e.g. this one: [image] Hello got a quick question.. I am using `walkdir` to scan the file system for file General Usage I am using walkdir to scan the file system for files. I am running into an error where everything craps the bed at the first sign of a file that has too high of permissions. I see that walkdir accepts onerror=throws. What would I need to do to modify throws or to write my own function to handle the permissions issues. I just want it to skip over them. (Original message slack) What happens to the answer? Does it also appear on slack?

No (and I don’t think this has been considered so far).

(I assume you meant to say “does it also appear on discourse”) At this point, not automatically. The idea is that, after a discussion, someone posts the answer here.

A question on Slack appears through BridgeBot here on Discourse. If I answer here on Discourse does this answer automatically is copied to Slack?

I am not sure I understand the purpose of BridgeBot in this form. If I don’t answer on Slack, then the OP will not see my answer, so there is little point in writing one. But if I already use Slack, I could just follow there — duplicating the feed on Discourse is not necessary. Sorry if I am missing something.

I think the hope is that people, perhaps the OP, will post a tidied-up summary answer here, for posterity / google. Whether this catches on, or not, we’ll see.

I do not use slack and I will just answer the bridge bot posts and expect the user to go check the Discourse counterpart or someone to notify them the question is already answered in Discourse.

[image] Henrique_Becker: expect the user to go check the Discourse counterpart or someone to notify them the question is already answered in Discourse. This was my intention to ask here, how the connections to each other system are. My conclusion is, that it doesn’t make too much sense to answer those Slack questions here. But maybe this conclusion is wrong, I have to look into Slack how this all shows up there, but it only let me login using Google or creating a new account. Both challenges I couldn’t tackle so far :wink:

Now, as I tackled it, I see that I have been there 2018 :slight_smile:

To first order, I view this as an archive system. Ideally questions and answers on slack should be archived here such that the knowledge is preserved. Currently we only bridge the question. IMO there should at some point be an option in slack to mark an answer as “please bridge this as the solution” as well.

After clicking around a bit on Slack (resisted to install the desktop application) I am afraid that I would now change the topic of this thread to “Do we need Slack, what are the benefits”. I only can see some (or one) disadvantages, like that it seems to be closed and not visible for unregistered readers. But I am sure this has already been discussed and probably the reasoning is to have as much as possible channels open for Julia, which is fine or could be a problem for people just searching for already solved questions. For me I am sure, that I will have some time in future where I see a question here bridged from Slack without an answer here and I am (again) forced to login to Slack to see if any answers are given. And again I will be surprised that I have been there 2 years ago. Well than I have to remember that I should assemble an answer into Discourse for open availability and with that necroing an old thread… :laughing: I stop this now. Well for now I will just observe how this will develop and perhaps I will do some summaries here, but I am afraid that this is not so easy in the most cases.

I see this has been added: Note that the poster on Slack cannot see your response here on Discourse. Consider answering the question there or pinging the poster here on Discourse so they see the reponse. Good idea, Well done!

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