Chesnay can you take a look at the following PR?

https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/120

On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:09 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote:

> There have been previous discussions around using slack and they were
> rejected.
>
> Personally I would just remove the IRC channel; I'm not aware of any
> committer actually spending time there.
>
> On 25.08.2018 17:07, Nicos Maris wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> This mailing list is for user support and questions. If you would also use
> slack for user support and questions, then please vote at the following
> ticket. If you don't have an account at that jira, you can reply to this
> email with a "+1".
>
>
> [FLINK-10217 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3862>] use
> Slack for user support and questions
>
> Current status
>
> For user support and questions, users are instructed to subscribe to
> user@flink.apache.org but there are users like me who enjoy using also a
> chat channel. However, the instructions to do so are not clear and the IRC
> activity is low and it is definitely not indicative of the project's
> activity
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3862?focusedCommentId=16152376&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16152376>
> .
>
> The website <https://flink.apache.org/community.html> mentions that "If
> you want to talk with the Flink committers and users in a chat, there is an 
> IRC
> channel <https://flink.apache.org/community.html#irc>."
> Option 1: Use Slack
>
> An example of an Apache project that is using Slack
> <https://tedium.co/2017/10/17/irc-vs-slack-chat-history> is:
> http://mesos.apache.org/community
>
> I can assist on setting it up if at least one expert joins from the very
> beginning.
> Option 2: Keep using IRC and document it
>
> Add the missing section
> <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/blob/master/community.md#irc> at the
> website along with instructions for people who have never used IRC.
> Option 3: Use only the mailing list
>
> Use only user@flink.apache.org for user support and questions and do not
> mention IRC at the website.
>
>
>

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