Hi all, Slack has announced that their gateway for IRC will no longer be available after May 15th, 2018. [1]
mslackbot was last seen in our IRC channel on February 9th, 2018. [2] I would like to hear some feedback from the community as to how we should proceed. My personal experience has been that folks find it difficult to find their way into our Slack channel, but once they do, the experience is better than IRC. Should also be noted that I haven't seen participation form our IRC channel in at least six months. Still, Slack is a walled garden and we're an open source community, so I'd like some input on wether: A. We should continue discussions in Slack and advertising Slack channel in our website. If yes, in what capacity (official or unofficial). B. We should we continue to link to our IRC channel from our website considering it has been inactive for so long. - Renan [1] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t o-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP [2] https://wilderness.apache.org/channels/?f=aurora/2018-02-09
