[Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] One more way to contact Gluster team - Slack (gluster.slack.com)

Fri Apr 26 13:26:35 UTC 2019

Amar,

Thanks for the clarification.  I'll go climb back into my cave. :)

Harold

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:20 AM Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan <
atumball at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 6:27 PM Kaleb Keithley <kkeithle at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 8:21 AM Harold Miller <harold at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Has Red Hat security cleared the Slack systems for confidential /
>>> customer information?
>>>
>>> If not, it will make it difficult for support to collect/answer
>>> questions.
>>>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure Amar meant as a replacement for the freenode #gluster and
>> #gluster-dev channels, given that he sent this to the public gluster
>> mailing lists @gluster.org. Nobody should have even been posting
>> confidential and/or customer information to any of those lists or channels.
>> And AFAIK nobody ever has.
>>
>>
> Yep, I am only talking about IRC (from freenode, #gluster, #gluster-dev
> etc).  Also, I am not saying we are 'replacing IRC'. Gluster as a project
> started in pre-Slack era, and we have many users who prefer to stay in IRC.
> So, for now, no pressure to make a statement calling Slack channel as a
> 'Replacement' to IRC.
>
>
>> Amar, would you like to clarify which IRC channels you meant?
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Kaleb. I was bit confused on why the concern of it came up in this
> group.
>
>
>
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 6:00 AM Scott Worthington <
>>> scott.c.worthington at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, are you not _BOTH_ Red Hat FTEs or contractors?
>>>>
>>>>
> Yes! but come from very different internal teams.
>
> Michael supports Gluster (the project) team's Infrastructure needs, and
> has valid concerns from his perspective :-) I, on the other hand, bother
> more about code, users, and how to make sure we are up-to-date with other
> technologies and communities, from the engineering view point.
>
>
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 3:16 AM Michael Scherer <mscherer at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Le vendredi 26 avril 2019 à 13:24 +0530, Amar Tumballi Suryanarayan a
>>>>> écrit :
>>>>> > Hi All,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > We wanted to move to Slack from IRC for our official communication
>>>>> > channel
>>>>> > from sometime, but couldn't as we didn't had a proper URL for us to
>>>>> > register. 'gluster' was taken and we didn't knew who had it
>>>>> > registered.
>>>>> > Thanks to constant ask from Satish, Slack team has now agreed to let
>>>>> > us use
>>>>> > https://gluster.slack.com and I am happy to invite you all there.
>>>>> > (Use this
>>>>> > link
>>>>> > <
>>>>> >
>>>>> https://join.slack.com/t/gluster/shared_invite/enQtNjIxMTA1MTk3MDE1LWIzZWZjNzhkYWEwNDdiZWRiOTczMTc4ZjdiY2JiMTc3MDE5YmEyZTRkNzg0MWJiMWM3OGEyMDU2MmYzMTViYTA
>>>>> > >
>>>>> > to
>>>>> > join)
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Please note that, it won't be a replacement for mailing list. But can
>>>>> > be
>>>>> > used by all developers and users for quick communication. Also note
>>>>> > that,
>>>>> > no information there would be 'stored' beyond 10k lines as we are
>>>>> > using the
>>>>> > free version of Slack.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aren't we concerned about the ToS of slack ? Last time I did read them,
>>>>> they were quite scary (like, if you use your corporate email, you
>>>>> engage your employer, and that wasn't the worst part).
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, to anticipate the question, my employer Legal department told me
>>>>> to not setup a bridge between IRC and slack, due to the said ToS.
>>>>>
>>>>>
> Again, re-iterating here. Not planning to use any bridges from IRC to
> Slack. I re-read the Slack API Terms and condition. And it makes sense.
> They surely don't want us to build another slack, or abuse slack with too
> many API requests made for collecting logs.
>
> Currently, to start with, we are not adding any bots (other than github
> bot). Hopefully, that will keep us under proper usage guidelines.
>
> -Amar
>
>
>> --
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>>>>> Sysadmin, Community Infrastructure
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>
> --
> Amar Tumballi (amarts)
>

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