Gitter is public. And Slack is a paid service (free version has a lot of limits), so it's not very feasible for public chats without someone funding it. Gitter, however, is free for all GitHub projects (and Gitlab too I think?) and is even open source now that Gitlab owns them.
On 17 July 2017 at 21:13, Tungathurthi, Chandra Kiran Bharadwaj < chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hey actually, a slack channel would fit right in. Any specific reason to > choose gitter over slack ? @matt > > thanks & regards, > Chandra > > > From: Gary Gregory > Sent: Tuesday, 18 July, 07:08 > Subject: Re: Desire for a Gitter channel? > To: Log4J Users List > > So, like a private Slack? Bah, why not, as long as we make sure to > document any and all decisions on the ML, it could be OK. Gary On Mon, Jul > 17, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Matt Sicker wrote: > https://gitter.im/apache/home > > > We can request a log4j Gitter channel for realtime chat. This could be > > handy for quick questions and other things that waiting on Stack Overflow > > or mailing list posts isn't as appropriate for. > > This would be very > different from the ASF Slack as it is open to everyone. > > Also, I find > chat rooms a bit easier to reply to while at work than > browsing Stack > Overflow. ;) > > -- > Matt Sicker > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
