I agree. This lowers the barrier to entry for new participants. Slack is probably two orders of magnitude more commonly used now than irc for sw devs and three for everyone else. And then you have the quality-of-life features that you get out of the box with Slack and only with difficulty in irc (history, search, file uploads...)
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > While working on ApacheCon last week, I had to get setup on ASF's slack > workspace. After poking around a bit, on a whim I created #cassandra and > #cassandra-dev. I then invited a couple of people to come signup and test > it out - primarily to make sure that the process was seamless for non-ASF > account holders as well as committers, etc (it was). > > If you want to jump in, you can signup here: > https://s.apache.org/slack-invite > > That said, I think it's time we transition from IRC to Slack. Now, I like > CLI friendly, straight forward tools like IRC as much as anyone, but it's > been more than once recently where a user I've talked to has said one of > two things regarding our IRC channels: "What's IRC?" or "Yeah, I don't > really do that anymore." > > In short, I think it's time to migrate. I think this will really just > consist of some communications to our lists and updating the site (anything > I'm missing?). The archives of IRC should just kind of persist for > posterity sake without any additional effort or maintenance. The > ASF-requirements are all configured already on the Slack workspace, so I > think we are good there. > > Thanks, > -Nate > -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
