Yeah, there are some Apache projects that use slack. Can you create an Accumulo channel at https://the-asf.slack.com? I don't recall what I did to set up my account there, but I did have to use my apache.org email account. The only thing I see from other communities is a small delay for users since they need to be given access to the channel.
+1 to shutting down IRC. Mike On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 4:11 PM Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > We did have a HipChat room, but we didn't advertise it well and nobody > really used it. With all that happened with HipChat being bought by > Atlassian and then sold off to Slack (or something like that), I'm not sure > where ASF Infra currently stands on providing chat as an ASF resource. > > I have no objections to trying out Slack within the project. However, if > Infra does move towards something in future (like an official ASF Slack > group), we should try to follow whatever path they pave. > > Regardless of whether Slack pans out, we should probably shut down the IRC > room... hardly anybody uses it, and the few that do are lurkers only or > bots. It doesn't make sense to continue to advertise it as a way for > users/devs to contact us. > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 15:44 Mike Walch <mwa...@apache.org wrote: > > > I would like to create a Slack chatroom for Accumulo and advertise it on > on > > our 'contact us' page [1] with an invite link to make it easy to join. Is > > anyone opposed to this? There will be no requirement that Accumulo users > > or developers use Slack. We currently have an IRC chatroom but it's not > > used much. I think Slack will be used more as it's simpler and saves the > > latest history which helps if you join an ongoing discussion. If it ends > > up being rarely used over the next few months, I am OK with shutting it > > down. > > > > [1]: https://accumulo.apache.org/contact-us/ > > >
