I'm -0 on this. We have a specific history around IRC that is important to retain, specifically the IRC channels have never been logged. I feel strongly about not retaining log history from our discussion area; it gives people the ability to be more free about their discussions without worry about being on the record.
Slack as a host (whether you use IRC or Slack as the chat gateway) does away with that, at least partially, and I think it will be for the worse. I will probably drop out of chat if this happens. -Joan ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Squier" <[email protected]> > To: "Martin Rudolph" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 9:56:59 AM > Subject: Re: RFC CouchDB Slack channel > > Would also love to see this! > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017, at 04:35 AM, Martin Rudolph wrote: > > > +1 for Slack and btw. I think there is a http://www.discourse.org/ > > > <http://www.discourse.org/> plugin for slack… > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Martin > > > > Am 23.02.2017 um 13:28 schrieb Dan Santner <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > I'm in for that!! > > > > > > > >> On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:22 AM, Garren Smith <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > > >> Hi All, > > > >> > > > >> I would like create a slack channel for the CouchDB community. > > >> IRC > > >> is often > > >> considered a barrier to entry for people wanting to ask > > >> questions > > >> and learn > > >> about CouchDB. Slack is a lot easier and less intimidating to > > >> get > > >> started > > >> with. When we do this, we would setup a IRC <-> Slack bridge. > > >> So that > > >> people on slack can communicate to people on IRC. So if you > > >> prefer > > >> IRC you > > >> can still use it. > > > >> > > > >> The best success story for this model is the PouchDB community, > > >> they have a > > >> slack channel with a bridge that links the IRC channel. And the > > >> community > > >> has really grown significantly since this has been implemented. > > >> I > > >> know the > > >> Hoodie team also has something like this and it has also worked > > >> well. > > >> > > > >> I would like to do the same, with a slack channel with two rooms > > >> that then > > >> have a bridge back to #couchdb and #couchdb-dev. > > > >> > > > >> Would everyone be ok with this? Could we trial it for 3 - 4 > > >> months > > >> and see > > >> how it goes? > > > >> > > > >> Cheers > > > >> Garren > > > >> > > > >> Apache CouchDB PMC > > > > > >
