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 >> > >
