I plan to man #nifi on freenode. I like irc, because to some extent it is 'traditional', many OSS projects have official irc channels that have been active for over a decade. There are clients of many varieties, web clients, graphical clients and command line clients (i use irssi [2], which is a command line tool). There is an ASFBot [1] which can hop in the room and record meetings for memorializing. freenode has nice nickserv and chanserv features [3].
[1] http://apache.org/dev/asfbot.html [2] http://www.irssi.org/ [3] https://freenode.net/using_the_network.shtml On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > So this dev mailing list is a great start and probably sufficient right > now. But wanted to start thinking about the forms of communication we > should also support as we progress. > > IRC appears to be a must if not for any other reason than Tony seems to > live in IRC. > > What about something like HipChat? That seems to be gaining favor. > Perhaps we can do both. It is really just a matter of where folks can have > some sort of presence. > > I've noticed some projects also do things like keep an eye on Stackoverflow > and the like. > > Not entirely sure of what is acceptable from an Apache perspective. I know > there are a lot of considerations to ensuring that all communications are > public to the greatest extent possible and that they're memorialized. > > Other thoughts? > > Thanks > Joe >
