Golangci-lint: Real time communication

[iwankgb]

@golangci/team, I think it would be useful to have a real time communication channel so that we are able to use slightly faster communication than issues and PRs. It could help to coordinate work around releases etc.
Do you have any opinion on this? Would Freenode IRC channel be enough or you prefer Slack or something else?

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[SVilgelm]

Hi @iwankgb,
Here is my thoughts: The real time communication is useful only for the people who work in same/very close timezone.
Slack has some limitations for the free accounts, IRC is rarely used now. If you really want a real time communication, then I would recommend Gitter, as it has a good integration with the Github.
But since the golangci/team contains people all over the world I would recommend to use the team's discussions: https://github.com/orgs/golangci/teams/team

I created first discussion for the team for bumping next release: https://github.com/orgs/golangci/teams/team/discussions/1

[Helcaraxan]

Just a thought: for Slack you can start with a dedicated channel on the Go slack. There are plenty of OSS Go projects that have one there.

And Slack doesn't have to be fully synchronous. People in completely opposite timezones still interact there either directly during their short overlaps or else by delayed responses in threads.

This would also allow users to dip in more easily for questions and / or issue reporting. In the past I've had multiple occasions where I would have loved to be able to reach out to contributors of the project but there was no channel.

[SVilgelm]

Oh yes, thank you @Helcaraxan, I totally forgot about the gophers slack. The golangci-lint channel already exists. Anyone can join using this link: https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/

[SVilgelm]

and then using this link to join the channel: https://gophers.slack.com/app_redirect?channel=golangci-lint