Hi Wade,
You are right: invite people on Slack means adding them as member.
However, how can we accept Slack participants without inviting them ? Is it
possible ?
Thanks !
Regards
JB
On 03/26/2017 07:05 PM, Wade Chandler wrote:
My understanding is there isn’t a max limit on Slack for users for free,
and I have confirmed this with Slack there is not supposed to be a
limitation on numbers of members. NetBeans for instance has 320 members.
Did someone tell you this or did you run into some issue? If so, you might
write them to ask what is the deal.. It could be the difference in setup;
we use a registration page which sends invitations
https://netbeans.signup.team/ <https://netbeans.signup.team/> and is
using bots from https://stacktodo.com/ <https://stacktodo.com/> Or, it
could be something about when it was setup and differences in plans over
time.
It doesn’t change the limits on the log and file storage, but we explain
to folks it is for ephemeral real time communication and never to be
considered historic, but we are looking into setting up a log bot which
Slack personnel told us could also be helpful for OSS use. Slack said they
don’t have plans for more features for OSS specific projects at the moment
as one request from us was they make some new individual/personal low pay
option which could help communities with dedicated membership to pay for
their own personal use, but they said no plans at this time, but would take
it into consideration as an idea.
Thanks,
Wade
On Mar 26, 2017, at 01:58, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net>
wrote:
Hi,
Slack is very convenient for quick communication, but clearly, it
doesn't change that the mailing list is the first communication channel. If
discussions happen on Slack, minute notes/discussion has to be forwarded on
the mailing list.
I wonder if we plan to ask for some "pro" Slack account for Apache
projects (as we have license for IntelliJ for example). Now, at Apache
Beam, we reached the max capacity of the Slack free version (90 Slack users
on Beam channel and limited history). We already received new member
request that we can't accept for now.
Thoughts ?
Regards
JB
On 03/22/2017 10:37 PM, Craig Russell wrote:
Hi James,
There was a pretty extensive discussion on the netbeans dev list. I’d
encourage you to review this thread https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/
2dce365d03334c82d31b12c8b3dcad1a925a2f71af75658b8d8a5a07@%
3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E
You can get all of the messages in the thread by doing a quick search
for “slack” on the d...@netbeans.apache.org list in lists.apache.org.
My takeaway is that Slack not a substitute for email. But it is useful
for ping-pong communication when people are in the heat of development.
But no decisions are made on Slack, and any discussion there (aside
from “add a semicolon there” and “let’s get lunch") needs to be brought
back to the dev list.
The underlying principle is that “if it didn’t happen on dev, then it
didn’t happen”. We strive for open, inclusive communications at Apache and
that means attempting to encourage participation by everyone who wants to,
regardless of primary language, time zone, and availability of tools. (We
assume everyone has a device that handles email clients).
Hope this helps.
Craig
On Mar 22, 2017, at 1:27 PM, James Bognar <jamesbog...@apache.org>
wrote:
Can someone remind me? I thought there was a discussion a couple of
months
ago about allowing incubator projects to use Slack for
communication. What
was the final decision?
Craig L Russell
c...@apache.org
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