Someone wrote: > ...Would it be worth adding the growth of the > Slack community? We're ~800 members and it is really active....
With my incubation mentor hat on: enthusiasm for the the project is fantastic news, but Apache projects should do their business on asynchronous channels, and I don't consider Slack to be one (*) OpenWhisk is not the only ASF project to be working in this mode and finding a way to reconcile this with the ASF's asynchronous communications principles might be a good example for other projects. Barring "move everything to the dev list" which wouldn't be popular, do people have suggestions on how to improve this? Weekly news that point to important places (PRs etc.) where things are happening so people can catch up? Guidelines on how to use the various channels? Something else? I understand this is not a big problem now if many OpenWhisk committers are working full-time on the project, but as it evolves I suppose the number of full-time contributors will go down. And the Apache model requires providing full support to part-time folks as well, so this needs to be improved. -Bertrand (*) because it's impossible to catch up there if you come back from a week-long absence, for example
