That's the way i see it too. On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Mikhail Antonov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Regards Apekshit Sharma | Software Engineer, Cloudera | Palo Alto, California | 650-963-6311
