Chris, I agree, I'd be 100% on board with a Slack channel for Sling. A couple thoughts:
- There is already a slack org for the ASF: the-asf.slack.com we could use rather than setting up another slack org - We probably should call a formal vote rather than asking for replies in this thread Regards, Dan On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:07 PM Cris Rockwell <cmroc...@umich.edu> wrote: > I’ve read thread [1] and have a few observations: > > 1. It happened on the Sling Dev email list. Sling Dev has too many daily > emails. The context and substance of most messages are difficult to > understand unless you’re already fully entrenched. I unsubscribed pretty > quick. It is not the best platform for all collaboration across the project > community. > > 2. To summarize the respondents of thread [1] every non-Adobe responder in > the thread wanted Slack. Adobe already has a company chat platform. More > collaboration across organizational boundaries would be a good thing for > the project. > > 3. There was no vote. Why don’t we use the decision making process for > Apache Software Foundation projects [2]? > > Let’s put it to a vote and let the Sling Users have a say. Respond with +1 > if you want a Slack Workspace for the Sling Community. Of course use of > Slack is optional, so there is no need to vote against. Don’t join unless > you want to! > > Cris Rockwell > Applications Architect Sr > College of Literature, Science, and the Arts | University of Michigan > LSA Technology Services | 301 E Liberty Suite 500 | Ann Arbor, MI 48104 > Desk: 734.763.6818 | Email: cmroc...@umich.edu <mailto:cmroc...@umich.edu> > > [2]: https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#decision-making > <https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#decision-making> > > > > > > On Apr 20, 2020, at 4:04 AM, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org > <mailto:romb...@apache.org>> wrote: > > > > Hi Cris, > > > > On Sat, 2020-04-18 at 11:03 -0400, Cris Rockwell wrote: > >> Hi Sling Users > >> > >> Is there a community chat platform like Slack or gitter for Sling > >> users and developers? > > > > Not at the moment. See also [1] where we had this discussion and > > eventually abandoned the idea. > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > [1]: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19665a94cb17d9b7607eb9c5fe4c91cfa1df8eed55219f2db9b53f05%40%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E > < > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r19665a94cb17d9b7607eb9c5fe4c91cfa1df8eed55219f2db9b53f05%40%3Cdev.sling.apache.org%3E > > > > > >> > >> Cris > >> > > > >
