I'm heavily against Slack or any other proprietary, closed solutions.
I think it's a step back generally for the Internet at large and even
more so for an open source project; I can't reconcile the two in my
heart.
Having said that, I believe the chat is dead not because it's IRC, but
because people prefer async comms (ie email). It'll be the same for
Slack.
We should be promoting the mailing lists. They are active and the
archives are open to search engines etc and can further provide helpful
information to everyone.
I won't -1 the decision, I don't want to be in the way of "progress",
but it's not a +1 either. I won't be using it.
My 2p
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On 2019-08-22 16:57, Andrija Panic wrote:
Hi guys,
Since IRC is pretty dead, and we already have a Slack channel (
https://apachecloudstack.slack.com ) that we use atm, AND since there
seems
to be an official ASF slack channel at https://the-asf.slack.com/, I
would
like to open a discussion of the idea to "officially" move (i.e.
marketing
this on all event pages and main web site) to that new CloudStack
channel
on the official ASF slack account/page - and abandon (close for good)
all
others chat channels.
i.e. on this year conference page (http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/) we
currently announce the IRC channel (???) to be the one (and AFAIK it's
pretty dead) - so I would propose to move forward and update this, so
the
users can be aware of "alive" chat channel
Suggestions, opinions ?
Regards,
Andrija Panić
