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 >