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Re: Slack IRC Gateway support ending

[Jake Farrell]

No specific policy that I'm aware of. All decisions must occur on list,
outside of that having a Slack, IRC or other is pretty much left up to each
project and how we want to best foster and help support and grow our
community

-Jake

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:55 PM, Renan DelValle 
wrote:

> Agreed. Maybe Jake can shine some light on wether Apache has a policy.
>
> One thing I forgot to mention is that the loss of the IRC gateway means we
> no longer have free access to our older chat logs. (The free version of
> Slack limits the amount of history users have access to.)
>
> So that is something else to consider.
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:37 AM, David McLaughlin  > wrote:
>
>> I don't have a strong opinion here, the whole chat space is very flavor
>> of the month. Does Apache have a policy?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Renan DelValle  wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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