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Slack-Inviter paid-teams-only problem #8
Description
As visible in InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourceLearningPath#97 and InnerSourceCommons/innersourcecommons.org#54 our current slack inviter refuses to work due to being on the free plan now.
Both issues describe the same problem that I would deem a problem with our infrastructure.
A short research would offer this approach:
- https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201330256-Invite-new-members-to-your-workspace#share-an-invite-link
- this apparently requires to regularly rotate the invite link
- https://intoli.com/blog/make-a-public-slack-community/
- looks interesting and indeed does work, possibly also with a free plan Slack.
- We're currently using SlackIn, does someone have experience if the free plan limits would represent an issue with this inviter too (i.e. a general Slack free plan limit)?
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lenucksi commentedon Jul 29, 2019
We had the inviter configured with the "join specific channels on new account" option.
This feature appears to only work with paid Slacks as I got to know while deploying an alternative to Heroku.
The alternative for now lives here: https://innersourcecommons-inviter.herokuapp.com/
Do we want to keep that URL and deployment or fix (upgrade) the other one?
I can provide a website change PR for the new one but would be happy if someone else would make one too.
StingRayZA commentedon Jul 31, 2019
I don't see any drawbacks in just setting up the new one as the 'main' one...
I've created a PR for the website to do the changeover. (InnerSourceCommons/innersourcecommons.org#56)
would it be worthwhile creating a (private?) repo to store the config/code of the inviter?
lenucksi commentedon Jul 31, 2019
Thanks for making the PR.
What has been deployed is whatever has been the current master in rauchg/slackin as of Monday. [...] They don't do releases anymore since some years.
The only changes we made are custom credentials. Those I can definitely store in the vault @cewilliams has provided me with or we make a repo using GoPass. GoPass has been successfully vetted as being good&useful by colleagues of mine.
rrrutledge commentedon Aug 5, 2019
Since the
innersourcecommons-inviterlink on the main page is working again I deleted the magic join link from Slack that I had created at one point.rrrutledge commentedon Aug 5, 2019
InnerSourceCommons/innersourcecommons.org#57 should finish off fixing this.
lenucksi commentedon Aug 6, 2019
I would say that this is done for now. Thanks for making the PR's with the URL-updates and the reviews & tests.