It looks like we already have an irc channel: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/IRC+Channel <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SQOOP/IRC+Channel>
I am going to start hanging out there, please stop by and say hi! Abe > On Oct 22, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Jarek Jarcec Cecho <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > thank you very much for joining the contributor yesterday. I’ve enjoyed the > opportunity to see you all again! We’ve talked about few interesting topics, > so let me provide quick summary of those worth persisting and bringing to the > community at large. > > * Sqoop releases - both Sqoop 1 and 2 were lastly released in May and we’ve > gathered quite a good chunk of fixes and changes, so it might be a good > opportunity to do a new release(s). > > * We’ve talked about the contributor meetups and whether it would be useful > to do more of them - there was general agreement in the room, so I’ll take > action item to call the meetup again. > > * We’ve also talked about more “focused” meetup and perhaps do a Sqoop > “hackathon” - take a half a day and simply hack on Sqoop with committers in > the same room. Would there be interest in doing something like that? > > * Last but not least, we’ve briefly touched if it would make sense to also > start using more “IM” software as a communication channel - like slack, IRC > or HipChat. Any thoughts? > > See you next time! > > Jarcec
