No specific policy that I'm aware of. All decisions must occur on list, outside of that having a Slack, IRC or other is pretty much left up to each project and how we want to best foster and help support and grow our community
-Jake On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Renan DelValle <renanidelva...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agreed. Maybe Jake can shine some light on wether Apache has a policy. > > One thing I forgot to mention is that the loss of the IRC gateway means we > no longer have free access to our older chat logs. (The free version of > Slack limits the amount of history users have access to.) > > So that is something else to consider. > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:37 AM, David McLaughlin <dmclaugh...@apache.org > > wrote: > >> I don't have a strong opinion here, the whole chat space is very flavor >> of the month. Does Apache have a policy? >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Renan DelValle <re...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Slack has announced that their gateway for IRC will no longer be >>> available after May 15th, 2018. [1] >>> >>> mslackbot was last seen in our IRC channel on February 9th, 2018. [2] >>> >>> I would like to hear some feedback from the community as to how we >>> should proceed. >>> >>> My personal experience has been that folks find it difficult to find >>> their way into our Slack channel, but once they do, the experience is >>> better than IRC. >>> >>> Should also be noted that I haven't seen participation form our IRC >>> channel in at least six months. >>> >>> Still, Slack is a walled garden and we're an open source community, so >>> I'd like some input on wether: >>> >>> A. We should continue discussions in Slack and advertising Slack channel >>> in our website. If yes, in what capacity (official or unofficial). >>> B. We should we continue to link to our IRC channel from our website >>> considering it has been inactive for so long. >>> >>> - Renan >>> >>> [1] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t >>> o-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP >>> [2] https://wilderness.apache.org/channels/?f=aurora/2018-02-09 >>> >> >> >
