Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects

Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by bluedino on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:28PM (#11014641)

>> The only big thing that Slack has over IRC is being able to catch up on what was said earlier.

What about all the integrations with other services?

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by davidw on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:33PM (#11014681)

What do I need that for for my open source project? I could probably get github notifications, or bugs, or something via a bot in IRC if I wanted, but I just don't see the need. Chat is by its nature not supposed to be the hub of an open source project, because it's a real time thing in a distributed group of people who may not be able to do real time.

Those things can be kind of cool for a company, but when I'm hanging out, on, say #postgres, it's to ask a question or discuss functionality, not see pull requests roll through the screen.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by Karunamon on Monday February 01, 2016 @02:57PM (#11014883)

Chat is by its nature not supposed to be the hub of an open source project, because it's a real time thing in a distributed group of people who may not be able to do real time.

From this, it sounds like the only substantive difference you're hung up on is message persistence. If that's being provided by a stable third party (i.e. a log bot, the technical details of which are irrelevant), what else are you missing?

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by davexunit on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:04PM (#11014959)

People have been building IRC bots for decades that integrate with other services.

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Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects by bluedino on Monday February 01, 2016 @03:34PM (#11015173)

Very true, but there is a ton of stuff that Slack provides out of the box.

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