On 01/05/2019 21:38, Eric Barnhill wrote: > Actually some objections have been raised to using Slack because it is not > open source. So the options will be either zulipchat if a group of people > want to use it, or Riot if it is just me.
Better stop using GitHub as well then. There is no ASF policy that requires the tools we use to be open source. There is an ASF slack instance - you could request (create?) a commons-gsoc channel there. Mark > > Thanks, Eric > > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 1:20 PM Eric Barnhill <ericbarnh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am going to set up a Slack to communicate with my GSoC mentees. >> >> I know official policy is to communicate on this list, but especially with >> small setup questions the mentees might have, or gaps in their knowledge, >> that will create unnecessary spam for everyone. Larger-scale decisions will >> be posted here so they are on the record. >> >> I didn't know what scope to make this Slack. So I called it >> apachecommonsnumbers.slack.com . If more people in commons are interested >> in this idea, I could change its name to apachecommons.slack.com, and we >> could all set up our own channels on it. It's free if that concerns anyone. >> >> Give me a +1 if you want to use it and I will invite you. Otherwise it >> will be lonely, just me and my mentees. :) >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
