Hi Innocent, Indeed, the Polaris Spack Workspace has the "Let people with approved email addresses join this workspace" option turned on and restricted to " apache.org" now.
JB: IIRC this did not used to be the case. All email domains used to be allowed. Do you know if there was an ASF policy change on that? Thanks, Dmitri. On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM Innocent Djiofack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dmitri, > > As Data life mentioned, when trying to get to the slack the following > message shows up if the user does not have an apache domain address. > [image: image.png] > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 10:50 AM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Innocent, >> >> There's an Slack invite link on https://polaris.apache.org/community/ >> >> Please let us know if it doesn't work. >> >> Cheers, >> Dmitri. >> >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM Innocent Djiofack <[email protected] >> > >> wrote: >> >> > Hi JB, >> > >> > Is there a way I can get the slack invite please? >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 5:35 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > For Slack, we can invite you to the Polaris workspace using your email >> > > address. >> > > >> > > You are also welcome to ask questions on the dev mailing list. We have >> > > discussed creating a dedicated user mailing list for these types of >> > > inquiries in the future. GitHub Discussions is another option, though >> I >> > > personally do not monitor it as closely. >> > > >> > > You raise a good point regarding the clarity of where to ask >> questions. >> > > Updating the website could help address this, and I will start a >> separate >> > > thread to discuss that, as well as the ASF Slack and the creation of a >> > user >> > > mailing list. >> > > >> > > Regards, >> > > JB >> > > >> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 6:46 AM Data Life <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi all, >> > > > >> > > > I need your help in figuring out what is a correct place to ask help >> > from >> > > > community for questions or problems related to Polaris >> configurations. >> > > > >> > > > Slack channel somehow asks me to have a working "apache.org " email >> > > > address >> > > > to join the channel, which I do not have. >> > > > >> > > > And I am not sure if " GitHub discussion " is for either >> > > developers/roadmap >> > > > deleted questions or this email list is the correct forum? >> > > > >> > > > Thank you for your help, >> > > > D. >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > *DJIOFACK INNOCENT* >> > *"Be better than the day before!" -* >> > *+1 404 751 8024* >> > >> > > > -- > > *DJIOFACK INNOCENT* > *"Be better than the day before!" -* > *+1 404 751 8024* >
