IIRC anybody who has an @a.o address can send invites. On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:36 PM Mike Walch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am cool with an Accumulo channel on the-asf.slack.com. I was able to > join easily using my apache email address. How can users without an > apache.org email address join the 'the-asf' workspace? It would be nice to > put instructions for joining on our contact us page. > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 4:31 PM Michael Wall <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yeah, there are some Apache projects that use slack. Can you create an > > Accumulo channel at https://the-asf.slack.com? I don't recall what I > did > > to set up my account there, but I did have to use my apache.org email > > account. The only thing I see from other communities is a small delay > for > > users since they need to be given access to the channel. > > > > +1 to shutting down IRC. > > > > Mike > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 4:11 PM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > >
