We did have a HipChat room, but we didn't advertise it well and nobody really used it. With all that happened with HipChat being bought by Atlassian and then sold off to Slack (or something like that), I'm not sure where ASF Infra currently stands on providing chat as an ASF resource.
I have no objections to trying out Slack within the project. However, if Infra does move towards something in future (like an official ASF Slack group), we should try to follow whatever path they pave. Regardless of whether Slack pans out, we should probably shut down the IRC room... hardly anybody uses it, and the few that do are lurkers only or bots. It doesn't make sense to continue to advertise it as a way for users/devs to contact us. On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 15:44 Mike Walch <[email protected] wrote: > I would like to create a Slack chatroom for Accumulo and advertise it on on > our 'contact us' page [1] with an invite link to make it easy to join. Is > anyone opposed to this? There will be no requirement that Accumulo users > or developers use Slack. We currently have an IRC chatroom but it's not > used much. I think Slack will be used more as it's simpler and saves the > latest history which helps if you join an ongoing discussion. If it ends > up being rarely used over the next few months, I am OK with shutting it > down. > > [1]: https://accumulo.apache.org/contact-us/ >
