I seldom check out IRC (as my experience was the same). I'm OK with retiring it if no committers are around.
On a related note, I know Tsuyoshi set up a slack channel for the committers. Even that one is pretty idle. :) Should we use it more often? If that starts to gain traction, we could set up a more open room for users as well. Sangjin On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Recently, Andrew Wang and I were at an academic conference where one of the > attendees (a grad student) was mentioning that his posts to the IRC channel > are never answered. > > Personally, I haven't been using the IRC channel. Neither do I know anyone > who is actively monitoring it. > > I am emailing to check: > > 1. Are there folks actively monitoring the IRC channel and answering > questions? > 2. If there is no one, should we consider retiring the channel? > > Thanks > Karthik >