@anirudh @barni could you guys add whoever manages the k8s slack please? On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, 2:30 AM Ash Berlin-Taylor <a...@apache.org> wrote:
> I'm not a fan of slack for open source work - it's a walled garden, > signing up is a hurdle (where you have to use a work around of a heroku > app), not to mention that the client is just so memory hungry! > > I'm just a curmudgeon who still likes IRC mainly. So long as I can install > https://slack.com/apps/A7DL60U5D-irccloud/ < > https://blog.irccloud.com/slack-integration/> I won't object ;) > > (I am not a fan of Gitter either, but I am constantly logged in via their > IRC gateway. I'm usually the only PPMC responding in there, Bolke pops up > from time-to-time too) > > -ash > > > On 1 Sep 2018, at 02:40, Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Great feedback. There is an overwhelming interest in moving Gitter to > > Slack. Just curious: for the folks who set up Slack for other Apache > > projects, did you go via an Apache Infra ticket? > > > > -s > > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:32 PM James Meickle > > <jmeic...@quantopian.com.invalid> wrote: > > > >> I am in the gitter chat most work days and there's always activity. > >> > >> I would be fine with switching to permanent retention slack for > >> searchability but don't see the point of switching without that feature. > >> > >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 12:59 Sid Anand <san...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >>> For a while now, we have had an Airflow Gitter account. Though this > >> seemed > >>> like a good idea initially, I'd like to hear from the community if > anyone > >>> gets value of out it. I don't believe any of the committers spend any > >> time > >>> on Gitter. > >>> > >>> Early on, the initial committers tried to be available on it, but soon > >>> found it impossible to be available on all the timezones in which we > had > >>> users. Furthermore, Gitter notoriously sucks at making previously > >> answered > >>> questions discoverable. Also, the single-threaded nature of Gitter > >>> essentially makes it confusing to debug/discuss more than on topic at a > >>> time. > >>> > >>> The community seems to be humming along by relying on the Apache > mailing > >>> lists, which don't suffer the downside listed above. Hence, as newbies > >> join > >>> Apache Airflow, they likely hop onto Gitter. Are they getting value > from > >>> it? If not, perhaps we are doing them a disservice and should consider > >> just > >>> deleting it. > >>> > >>> Thoughts welcome. > >>> -s > >>> > >> > >
