If you have a podling who wants to use slack, have them register under their podling name and deal with it. No impact on infra needed. It's like having yet another twitter account.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Evan Hughes <wisebald...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Another option could be asking infra to host a rocket.chat server so we > can > > control the instances. > > > > Sorry, Evan, but hosting a chat service is not an option for > Infrastructure. That would be contrary to our work on consolidating > services. > > We can have HipChat rooms for any/all projects. A simple Jira request, and > you're all set. > > In short, the ASF is happy to have duplicative topics/projects because each > community may approach a problem in different ways, with different focuses. > But our Infra resources are limited, so we can't/won't stand up duplicate > services. And even better when they can be outsourced (like HipChat, and > increasingly GitHub). > > Cheers, > Greg Stein > Infrastructure Administrator, ASF >
