I agreed with that Paul, but what Rohit mentioned (on our current Slack channel) is that some people joined with non-Apache email addresses, just they need an invitation (which is the case with our current Slack channel as well).
(Actually, I also wasn't able to login to ASF slack with my @apache.org email address (checked my credentials, can access other Apache services)) @Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> would be good to confirm this one please ^^^ Cheers On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 19:13, Paul Angus <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > The ASF-slack page says that you need an apache email address to get an > account. If that is the case I'd be -1 on using that channel, as it blocks > anyone who isn't a committer. > > paul.an...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > Amadeus House, Floral Street, London WC2E 9DPUK > @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrija Panic <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> > Sent: 22 August 2019 16:57 > To: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: [DISCUSS] Change of the official CHAT channel > > Hi guys, > > Since IRC is pretty dead, and we already have a Slack channel ( > https://apachecloudstack.slack.com ) that we use atm, AND since there > seems to be an official ASF slack channel at https://the-asf.slack.com/, > I would like to open a discussion of the idea to "officially" move (i.e. > marketing this on all event pages and main web site) to that new CloudStack > channel on the official ASF slack account/page - and abandon (close for > good) all others chat channels. > > i.e. on this year conference page (http://us.cloudstackcollab.org/) we > currently announce the IRC channel (???) to be the one (and AFAIK it's > pretty dead) - so I would propose to move forward and update this, so the > users can be aware of "alive" chat channel > > Suggestions, opinions ? > > Regards, > > Andrija Panić > -- Andrija Panić