+1

On Tue, May 28, 2019, 2:54 PM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote:

> +1 to switching over. One less comms client + history + searchability is
> enough to get my vote easy.
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:52 PM Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>

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