My whole idea is that having one (IRC) marketed on web pages, while using the other silently (Slack) makes less than zero sense to me.
And, for me, a tool is a tool, I'm not married to it (some people prefer vi editor and have religious attachments to it, I just use nano to get the job done) On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 19:49 Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > I'm heavily against Slack or any other proprietary, closed solutions. > > I think it's a step back generally for the Internet at large and even > more so for an open source project; I can't reconcile the two in my > heart. > > Having said that, I believe the chat is dead not because it's IRC, but > because people prefer async comms (ie email). It'll be the same for > Slack. > > > We should be promoting the mailing lists. They are active and the > archives are open to search engines etc and can further provide helpful > information to everyone. > > I won't -1 the decision, I don't want to be in the way of "progress", > but it's not a +1 either. I won't be using it. > > My 2p > > > --- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > On 2019-08-22 16:57, Andrija Panic wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Since IRC is pretty dead, and we already have a Slack channel ( > > https://apachecloudstack.slack.com ) that we use atm, AND since there > > seems > > to be an official ASF slack channel at https://the-asf.slack.com/, I > > would > > like to open a discussion of the idea to "officially" move (i.e. > > marketing > > this on all event pages and main web site) to that new CloudStack > > channel > > on the official ASF slack account/page - and abandon (close for good) > > all > > others chat channels. > > > > i.e. on this year conference page (http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/) we > > currently announce the IRC channel (???) to be the one (and AFAIK it's > > pretty dead) - so I would propose to move forward and update this, so > > the > > users can be aware of "alive" chat channel > > > > Suggestions, opinions ? > > > > Regards, > > > > Andrija Panić >
