Slack invitation not sent

[Rajiv2605]

Hi team,

I am trying to generate a slack invite here: https://openwhisk.apache.org/slack.html by clicking the button but that does not seem to be sending invites. A few of us tried with our different emails but nothing worked. It would be great if someone can look into it and fix this issue.

[style95]

@rabbah
It seems the button invokes an action in Nimbella.

Do you have any idea?

[Rajiv2605]

@style95 It seems to work for users already in the Openwhisk slack. For emails which are not a part of Openwhisk slack, the invite button doesn't work.

[style95]

Yes, the button invokes an action to invite a person to Slack.
This is the action, and it seems it's running on the Nimbella cloud.
https://github.com/apache/openwhisk-slackinvite

[Rajiv2605]

I was able to join through an invite sent by somebody who is already a part of Openwhisk slack. The invite button way of joining did not work.

[linuswagner]

For me, it seems like the connection is reset:

[jtownley]

I can confirm this is still an issue. I get the same result as @linuswagner.

[codesculpture]

Any Update :(

[linuswagner]

Any Update :(

I just saw that there is a pull request that states what to do: Write a mail to the mail list.
It was just created yesterday and states:

Join us by sending an email to dev@openwhisk.apache.org (subject "Requesting Invitation to OpenWhisk Slack") requesting an invitation to the Slack team. Please note, there is a human in the loop...it may take a day or two for the invitation to be sent.

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[codesculpture]

Thanks will try that.. it says there is a human in loop.. and does that human is doing that really?? Did that work

[linuswagner]

I didn't try. I don't use the project anymore.
But since the pull request is from yesterday, I'm sure you will get invited within a week

[style95]

Sending an invitation to the Slack team was handled by an action running on Bluemix which is no longer valid.
We are looking for another way to automate the process.
Until then you guys can send an email to the dev mailing list.
Committers and PMCs will invite you.

[codesculpture]

Small Doubt, not relevant to this issue.. I want to contribute new runtimes to openwhisk and some doc changes.. so basically what are the things i need to do raise a PR that will accepted. Since i looked Contrubuting.md it states that i need to sign a CLA, and i did sent an email to secretary@apache.org and got replied that i need to be invited by the team if i need to sign the CLA, and i see a "developer" and "commiter" term in doc which committer only requires to sign the CLA. But as per openwhisk contributing.md it says i need to sign CLA. can anyone navigate me pls