On 02/01/2018 08:45 AM, Adam Spiers wrote:
Hi Dimitris, Dimitris Karakasilis <jimmykarily@gmail.com> wrote:
Also,
you should have got an invitation for the slack channel.
Apologies in advance for wading in with some negative comments, but hopefully they can be taken as constructive rather than flames ;-) I'm not sure it's a great idea to introduce Slack, at least not without first discussing with the wider openSUSE community: 1. It fragments the existing IRC community.
2. It introduces a dependency onto centralized, proprietary technology. This does somewhat conflict with the freedom-oriented goals of the Project.
I am not a Slack fan in any way (finding it a completely ridiculous and proprietary platform that doesn't solve any problem except for leaching productivity and money from teams) but the reality is, that is where all the new, young and hip instagram and snapchat developers like to hang out. Sarcasm aside, Slack is widely used and has an IRC gateway (as I recall). Your real problems here are: 1. Not everyone has a slack account 2. You must be invited to slack channels (although this can be automated) 3. It is a closed platform, this is not something Suse should be advocating 4. There are many moons of better solutions out there including Open Source options. 5. Please God not another Slack tab that I have to keep open.... JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. || http://the.postgres.company/ || @cmdpromptinc PostgreSQL centered full stack support, consulting and development. Advocate: @amplifypostgres || Learn: https://postgresconf.org ***** Unless otherwise stated, opinions are my own. ***** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-web+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-web+owner@opensuse.org