Yes this come up once in a while. There's no need or way to stop people forming groups to chat, though blessing a new channel as 'official' is tough because it means, in theory, everyone has to follow another channel to see 100% of the discussion. I think that's why the couple of mailing lists, which can be controlled and archived by the ASF, will stay the official channels. But, naturally there's no problem with people forming unofficial communities.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:33 PM Jan-Hendrik Zab <j...@jhz.name> wrote: > Hello! > > There was a request on scala-debate [0] to create a Spark centric chat > room under the scala namespace on Gitter with a focus on Scala related > questions. > > This is just a heads up to the Apache Spark "management" to give them a > chance to get involved. It might be better to create a dedicated channel > under the Apache umbrella to better serve all users and not only those > using Scala. Avoiding any artificial split of the Spark community. > Reasons for having such a channel can be found in the linked thread. > > ps. > Please CC me, since I'm not on the list. > > Best, > -jhz > > (Resent, something apparently ate my first e-mail.) > > [0] - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/scala-debate/OVGnIU2SNmc > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > >
