Re: Adding a slack for communication?

[Ravishankar N <ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/09/2017 09:05 AM, Sam McLeod wrote:

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Amye Scavarda <amye@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From today's community meeting, we had an item from the issue queue:
https://github.com/gluster/community/issues/13

Should we have a Gluster Community slack team? I'm interested in
everyone's thoughts on this.

As fancy as Slack is, I really don't like how dependant so many projects have become on it, it's not open source, the desktop client is dreadful (heavy _javascript_ webframe), you're at the mercy of the companies decisions around the direction of their 'black box' software platform etc...

+1.  If I am not online on IRC, I am not 'ping-able' at that point in time. From what I understand, slack takes that away by being able to send offline messages. We already have email for that. For people like me who get anxious until I hit reply to an email that is addressed to me, slack doesn't sound all that fun. Searching IRC archives on a need basis works just fine. On a lighter note, https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/926458505355235328 :-)

Cheers,
Ravi

Personally I've found that discourse is a fantastic platform for project discussion, help and ideas: https://discourse.org

and for chat I've found that if IRC + a good web frontend for history/search isn't enough using either Mattermost (https://about.mattermost.com/) or Rocket Chat (https://rocket.chat/) has been very successful.

Just my 2c and I'll be happy to be a part of the community no matter where it ends up.

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Sam McLeod
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