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The "away" rule seems counter productive. The value of async is that I can ask you a question when convenient for me, and you can answer when convenient for you
by mseebach 15y ago
The "away" rule seems counter productive. The value of async is that I can ask you a question when convenient for me, and you can answer when convenient for you. If I have to wait for your status to become available, I'm wasting my attention.
- famousactress 15y agoI wonder if by 'available' he means 'will answer immediately'. My group uses Skype like campfire also.. and Away means 'I won't see this until I get back'.. Available means "I'll be notified immediately, and am likely to respond relatively soon". I still leave messages for people who are away all the time.. I just know that it's unlikely we'll end up in a real-time conversation at the moment, and as such.. I can just fire-and-forget until they return and reply
- eric-hu 15y agoThis seemed implicit in the article to me, but the way they use chat seems to be the way IRC chat is used for devs (though I haven't used IRC that much). If my understanding's accurate, then I'd agree with you: ignore someone's status, ask a question, don't expect an immediate answer.
- ethank 15y agoBasically it means we should trust the "away" message, but still can drop a line if you want. Away could also mean "mentally busy" or "on the phone" If I could trust the away messages, as a team lead I always had a status board as to where my team was (since we were in five offices)