[SUMMARY] Migrating communication channels

[Sander Striker <st...@apache.org>]

Hi,

It's been more than a week since I started this thread, so allow me to
summarize.

From the thread it seems a number of people weren't clear that I wasn't
looking for write-in options, but for a choice between the two stated
options: Freenode IRC or Slack (Apache Workspace).

When it comes to discoverability, I think this can be as simple as stating
on our website what the channels are, including direct links.

Now for the end result: it's clear we have a split.  Roughly down the
middle when it comes to preferences of the people that spoke up, some with
passion.  What this means is that we'll likely just end up with a few
people on IRC and a few people on Slack.  Which emphasizes the point that
everything should be brought back to this mailing list when it pertains to
the project.

I propose we move the #buildstream IRC channel to FreeNode next week.  We
currently have a BuildStream channel on the BuildTeam workspace, I propose
we'll keep that for now and potentially migrate that to the ASF workspace
at a later date.

Cheers,

Sander

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:31 PM Sander Striker <st...@apache.org> wrote:

> Now that we have effectively migrated to this mailing list, and Tristan
> has closed off the old mailing list [1], I like to bring up other
> communication channels.
>
> The preferred way of communicating is through this list.  This is where
> decisions are made and recorded.  "If it didn't happen on the list, it
> didn't happen".  Please make sure to bring discussions that are relevant to
> the project back to this list.
>
> A number of folks are active on IRC, the #buildstream channel on GIMPNet (
> irc.gnome.org) to be precise.  Logs are available [2].
>
> While the ASF doesn't host IRC infrastructure, there are some commonly
> used channels:
> - Slack [3]
> - IRC via Freenode [4][5]
>
> I'd like to gauge preference, and gather reasons why a certain technology
> is harder to access in practice.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback.  I'll leave this thread open for 7 days,
> and will then tally up the results.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sander
>
> [1]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/buildstream-list/2020-July/msg00002.html
> [2] https://irclogs.baserock.org/buildstream/
> [3] https://infra.apache.org/slack.html
> [4] https://freenode.net/
> [5] https://infra.apache.org/asfbot.html
>

Re: [SUMMARY] Migrating communication channels

[Tristan Van Berkom <tr...@codethink.co.uk>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2020-07-17 at 00:36 +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
[...]
> Now for the end result: it's clear we have a split.  Roughly down the
> middle when it comes to preferences of the people that spoke up, some with
> passion.  What this means is that we'll likely just end up with a few
> people on IRC and a few people on Slack.  Which emphasizes the point that
> everything should be brought back to this mailing list when it pertains to
> the project.
> 
> I propose we move the #buildstream IRC channel to FreeNode next week.  We
> currently have a BuildStream channel on the BuildTeam workspace, I propose
> we'll keep that for now and potentially migrate that to the ASF workspace
> at a later date.

+1

I will be much more happy to make the extra effort to try to be present
on Slack in the knowledge that we still have a presence on IRC.

Cheers,
    -Tristan