I'm not a fan of slack for open source work - it's a walled garden, signing up is a hurdle (where you have to use a work around of a heroku app), not to mention that the client is just so memory hungry!
I'm just a curmudgeon who still likes IRC mainly. So long as I can install https://slack.com/apps/A7DL60U5D-irccloud/ <https://blog.irccloud.com/slack-integration/> I won't object ;) (I am not a fan of Gitter either, but I am constantly logged in via their IRC gateway. I'm usually the only PPMC responding in there, Bolke pops up from time-to-time too) -ash > On 1 Sep 2018, at 02:40, Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > Great feedback. There is an overwhelming interest in moving Gitter to > Slack. Just curious: for the folks who set up Slack for other Apache > projects, did you go via an Apache Infra ticket? > > -s > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:32 PM James Meickle > <jmeic...@quantopian.com.invalid> wrote: > >> I am in the gitter chat most work days and there's always activity. >> >> I would be fine with switching to permanent retention slack for >> searchability but don't see the point of switching without that feature. >> >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 12:59 Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> For a while now, we have had an Airflow Gitter account. Though this >> seemed >>> like a good idea initially, I'd like to hear from the community if anyone >>> gets value of out it. I don't believe any of the committers spend any >> time >>> on Gitter. >>> >>> Early on, the initial committers tried to be available on it, but soon >>> found it impossible to be available on all the timezones in which we had >>> users. Furthermore, Gitter notoriously sucks at making previously >> answered >>> questions discoverable. Also, the single-threaded nature of Gitter >>> essentially makes it confusing to debug/discuss more than on topic at a >>> time. >>> >>> The community seems to be humming along by relying on the Apache mailing >>> lists, which don't suffer the downside listed above. Hence, as newbies >> join >>> Apache Airflow, they likely hop onto Gitter. Are they getting value from >>> it? If not, perhaps we are doing them a disservice and should consider >> just >>> deleting it. >>> >>> Thoughts welcome. >>> -s >>> >>
