+1 on moving I'm -1 on using Slack for open source projects in general, but I seem to have lost that battle. I would drastically prefer Matrix (offers 80% of the features we care about from Slack), but does not ask potential contributors to give up certain freedoms in exchange for Slack. Matrix is free as in Speech (but it turns out nothing is free as in Beer because hardware, energy, maintenance, and security have costs).
I'm in favor of moving, though. The existing ASF Slack will promote inter-project teamwork and cross-pollination. On Tue, May 25, 2021, 12:36 ocket 8888 <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > I still don't like using Slack for open-source projects - because it's > closed-source and not feature-rich enough to overlook that fact, IMO - but > this move represents a definite improvement over the current situation. > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:51 AM Jeremy Mitchell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm all for moving to ASF slack > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:35 AM Dave Neuman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't think we have any more good reasons to stay on a standalone > > slack. > > > We do have about 700 users in our current slack and I doubt we get them > > all > > > to move, but I suppose all of the active folks would move. > > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:14 AM Zach Hoffman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi ATC, > > > > > > > > The official Apache Software Foundation slack ( > > > https://the-asf.slack.com/ > > > > , > > > > invite at https://s.apache.org/slack-invite ) did not exist when > > > > https://traffic-control-cdn.slack.com/ was made. It's on an > enterprise > > > > plan, so it does not face the limitations that our Slack workspace > > faces, > > > > such as only being able to see the last 10,000 messages, only being > > able > > > to > > > > add 10 bots, etc. > > > > > > > > ASF Infra has added a webhook for the repo's commit activity to be > > posted > > > > to #traffic-control-commits in the ASF slack, and we can add as many > > > > channels as we want. Any reason not to switch? > > > > > > > > -Zach > > > > > > > > > >
