one of the benefits of keeping conversations in mailing lists is it can be searchable later. It will benefit users who might seen the same error which was answered on the mailing lists before. slack/glitter can do that?
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015, at 09:59 PM, Gwen Shapira wrote: > FYI: > Joining Slack requires an invitation. We can take invite-requests in > the mailing lists (like we do for KIP hangout). > I wanted to point this out as this may be considered non-Apache > (although I didn't find any specific wording against invite-only > channels in addition to the mailing list). > > So, if you want to try it out, yell for an invite :) > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > So, as an experiment, I created: > > https://apachekafka.slack.com > > > > I figured we'll give it a whirl for a week or two for dev discussions, > > see how it goes and if we have activity we can add this to the website > > and announce on the lists. > > > > Gwen > > > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> Slack sounds good and I'm not a fan of gitter (we use it for Apache > >> Sqoop, I dislike the GUI and the guilt-inducing emails about all the > >> messages I missed...) > >> Do they have free rooms for open source projects? > >> > >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Psaltis > >> <psaltis.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> +1 for slack > >>> > >>> On Saturday, July 18, 2015, Neha Narkhede <n...@confluent.io> wrote: > >>> > >>>> FWIW, if the apache-kafka channel was on Slack, I'd hang out there :-) > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk > >>>> <javascript:;>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > Hi Grant, > >>>> > > >>>> > I have been considering proposing the same thing myself for similar > >>>> > reasons, but I also have some doubts. More comments inline. > >>>> > > >>>> > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Grant Henke <ghe...@cloudera.com > >>>> <javascript:;>> wrote: > >>>> > > >>>> > > I think it could be useful to have a place to chat that is associated > >>>> > with > >>>> > > the Kafka repo. > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > Agreed. > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> > > Note that we do currently have an IRC channel, but from my > >>>> > > experience its a ghost town. > >>>> > > > >>>> > > >>>> > I've recently joined #apache-kafka and activity is low, yes, but there > >>>> > is > >>>> > some[1]. The bigger issue, perhaps, is that contributors are not there. > >>>> Do > >>>> > we think that this would be different with Gitter? And, if so, what is > >>>> the > >>>> > reason? Is it because no application needs to be installed? In theory, > >>>> > IRCCloud provides something similar for IRC (although the limitations > >>>> > of > >>>> > the trial and the upgrade nagging can be annoying) and we could link to > >>>> the > >>>> > channel in GitHub's readme. > >>>> > > >>>> > Also, are there any Apache projects who use Gitter? There was a thread > >>>> > in > >>>> > the Spark mailing list, but the response wasn't positive[2]. We would > >>>> need > >>>> > Apache Infra to set-up Gitter for us as they are the only ones that > >>>> > have > >>>> > write access to the repository (the set-up is really easy though, which > >>>> is > >>>> > definitely a positive). > >>>> > > >>>> > Gitter may be the right answer, I just want to make sure it actually > >>>> helps > >>>> > us have a more active channel instead of splitting the existing > >>>> > activity > >>>> > between two channels. > >>>> > > >>>> > Thoughts? > >>>> > > >>>> > Best, > >>>> > Ismael > >>>> > > >>>> > [1] > >>>> > https://botbot.me/freenode/apache-kafka/2015-07-06/?tz=Europe/London > >>>> > [2] > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Gitter-chat-room-for-Spark-td11636.html > >>>> > > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Neha > >>>>
