While I lean to the 'not seeing the value of Slack', we have many channels on Slack now (mostly driven by Incubator projects I think; John seems to have taken the lead on the workspace), so this isn't a thread for getting rid of slack :)
Hen On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Henri, > > We tried to use slack with the Juneau project and never got it to work > "the Apache Way". Inviting people instead of self-service, no ability to > monitor discussions, no archive of discussions. > > We gave up and now use the wiki whenever mail doesn't serve. Common > editing of documents, diagrams, etc. are all easily done on confluence > where email doesn't allow sharing documents. > > I frankly do not see slack filling a need here. > > Craig > > > On Oct 13, 2017, at 9:51 PM, Henri Yandell <bay...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Currently only 'admins' can invite people to the ASF Slack: > > > > https://the-asf.slack.com/ > > > > If we view it as an IRC equivalent, having to invite people at all is > > weird. We can, via a checkbox, change it so anyone on the ASF Slack > (except > > 'guests') can invite someone to the Slack workspace: > > > > ---- > > > > Invitations > > > > Choose whether to allow non-admins to invite new people to *ASF*. > > > > Allow everyone (except guests) to invite new members. > > ---- > > > > I can't see why we'd have an issue there, so I'm planning to turn that > > checkbox on at the end of next week (Thursday or whenever I remember to > > after that :) ). > > > > If this is a bad idea, please object and let me know why :) > > > > Hen > > Craig L Russell > c...@apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
