Stage 2 · Lesson 5 of 6
Asking in group chats and public channels
Many teams prefer questions in a shared channel rather than private messages, because others can learn from the answer and more people can help. That can feel more exposing than a private message. Remember the same shape: context, what you tried, the question.
Include error messages as text rather than screenshots when you can, and say what you need: "Not urgent, any time today is fine." When you find the answer yourself, post it in the thread so the next person benefits.
Common trapasking one senior privately every time, which overloads them and hides your good questions from the rest of the team.
A question to check yourself come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it
Resources for this stage
Start with
- GuideFreeGitLab Handbook: Communication
GitLab
How a large remote company expects people to ask and answer questions in the open
Practise
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