Eric, Great. I fully support this as well, it has been getting a bit noisy :)
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Eric Evans <eev...@rackspace.com> wrote: > > Those of you who participate on IRC have probably noticed that we are > pretty regularly topping 200 users of late. That is an awesome indicator > of the projects vitality, but at some point increased traffic results in > decreased usefulness (at least for some). > > As a result, there is a new channel, #cassandra-dev (also on Freenode). > The idea is that this channel will be restricted to discussion of > cassandra development only, while the existing channel will continue to > be the place for support and development *against* cassandra. > > In order to make the new channel useful (and to prevent it from > diminishing #cassandra), I propose the following guidelines: > > 1. Anyone is free to join; there are no technological restrictions (i.e. > it's not moderated or invite-only). > > 2. On-topic is limited to the development *of* cassandra. Support > questions (and basically anything else) are off-topic. > > 3. If you are found to be off-topic, you'll be kindly redirected to > #cassandra (which in IMO is already an awesome resource for this). > > 4. Answering an off-topic question is considered off-topic. Goto #3 :) > > 5. The Cassandra community is an awesome bunch so I can't imagine that > one or two iterations of #3 wouldn't be enough, but... > > 5a. Repeated violation of the on-topic rule may result in additional > guidelines that specify decreasing levels of kindness and more forceful > forms of redirection. :) > > The rationale for (1) is that this isn't about exclusivity, we're merely > trying to increase usability. The rationale for (2) through (5a) is that > there is no value in having two channels unless some distinction is > enforced. > > Comments? Questions? > > -- > Eric Evans > eev...@rackspace.com > > -- Chris Goffinet
