Awesome. -ryan
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Chris Goffinet <goffi...@digg.com> wrote: > 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 >
