The way I see it IRC / Slack are for quick ad-hoc questions, mostly between the devs, not a replacement but an addition to mail lists.
On 5/3/16, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean could probably confirm, but I believe Apache policy requires that > discussions/decisions happen on the dev list. So, IRC/Slack is probably > fine for user requests, but project direction happens in mailing list. Then > there's the question of searchable archives. Are IRC/Slack channels > archived so users 3 months later can find the answer that someone else > posted? Again, Apache has policies that dictate this as well. > > I'm not saying don't do it. I'm asking what your objective is. > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Apekshit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So slack has these cool features: code snippet support, file transfers, >> personal history (see what you missed), plugins support (for jenkins, >> etc). >> But we advertise in hbase book that we have an irc channel ( >> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#trouble.resources.irc, >> http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#irc). >> Which should we choose going forward? >> >> The main goal is to hangout in a room so that it's easy to ping people >> for >> short discussions/clarifications. >> >> >> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I'm not such a huge slack fan, but I'm also becoming curmudgeonly. >> > Sure, >> > why not? If that's where people want to gather. You creating a room? >> > How >> to >> > make it "official"? >> > >> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Apekshit Sharma <[email protected]> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > "Committers should hang out in the #hbase room on irc.freenode.net >> for >> > > > real-time discussions." >> > > > -- HBase Book >> > > > >> > > > The room has a bunch of people, but none who I recognize. I wonder >> what >> > > > happened. How a room which I imagine must have had thriving geeky >> > > > discussions once, just died. >> > > > >> > > > Anyways, let's revive the old tradition because it will certainly >> > > > be >> > > useful >> > > > to hang out in a room for real-time discussions. We can use the new >> > > kickass >> > > > service for that, Slack. >> > > > >> > > > What says the community? >> > > > >> > > > >> > > Or we could just revive the existing channel? >> > > St.Ack >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > -- Appy >> > > > >> > > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards >> >> Apekshit Sharma | Software Engineer, Cloudera | Palo Alto, California | >> 650-963-6311 >> > -- Thanks, Michael Antonov
