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rahul.xavier.si...@gmail.com http://cassandra.link On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:55 PM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > +1 > > On Tue, May 28, 2019, 2:54 PM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > +1 to switching over. One less comms client + history + searchability is > > enough to get my vote easy. > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:52 PM Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I agree. This lowers the barrier to entry for new participants. Slack > > is > > > probably two orders of magnitude more commonly used now than irc for sw > > > devs and three for everyone else. And then you have the > quality-of-life > > > features that you get out of the box with Slack and only with > difficulty > > in > > > irc (history, search, file uploads...) > > > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM Nate McCall <zznat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > While working on ApacheCon last week, I had to get setup on ASF's > slack > > > > workspace. After poking around a bit, on a whim I created #cassandra > > and > > > > #cassandra-dev. I then invited a couple of people to come signup and > > test > > > > it out - primarily to make sure that the process was seamless for > > non-ASF > > > > account holders as well as committers, etc (it was). > > > > > > > > If you want to jump in, you can signup here: > > > > https://s.apache.org/slack-invite > > > > > > > > That said, I think it's time we transition from IRC to Slack. Now, I > > like > > > > CLI friendly, straight forward tools like IRC as much as anyone, but > > it's > > > > been more than once recently where a user I've talked to has said one > > of > > > > two things regarding our IRC channels: "What's IRC?" or "Yeah, I > don't > > > > really do that anymore." > > > > > > > > In short, I think it's time to migrate. I think this will really just > > > > consist of some communications to our lists and updating the site > > > (anything > > > > I'm missing?). The archives of IRC should just kind of persist for > > > > posterity sake without any additional effort or maintenance. The > > > > ASF-requirements are all configured already on the Slack workspace, > so > > I > > > > think we are good there. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Nate > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Jonathan Ellis > > > co-founder, http://www.datastax.com > > > @spyced > > > > > >
