In regards to slack, I do find it very convenient to use. Very low barrier of entry to new users and contributors.
As the email distributions are the official place for communication (User/Dev) I'd be happy having day to day community chat on IRC & Slack. On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi team, > > Slack is very popular communication channel for developer. Lot of Apache > projects are using it and it's pretty convenient. > > I wonder if it makes sense to propose a Apache Karaf Slack room in addition > of IRC. Thoughts ? > > On the other hand, Apache now provides GitBox: > > https://gitbox.apache.org/ > > GitBox enables bi-directional sync to GitHub and links committer's accounts, > allowing greater use of GitHub functionality by contributors and committers. > > There's no rush but I think it could be interesting for Karaf, especially to > get more contributions via GitHub Pull Requests. > > Thoughts ? > > On the other hand, I will send an e-mail explaining the "clean" steps to do > when merging a GitHub PR (to automatically update the PR, etc). > > Regards > JB > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [email protected] > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com
