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Christopher Tubbs commented on THRIFT-5113:
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[~emmenlau], Please keep in mind that within Apache, the primary mechanism for
communication within any community is the mailing lists. Thrift's mailing lists
are listed on https://thrift.apache.org/mailing ; that site also points to IRC
channel, which I do not believe is actively used right now. I agree with your
assessment about the lack of promotion of Slack on the website. Perhaps a
committer will be able to make that change soon (disclaimer: I'm not a
committer).
The Slack instance I mentioned is provided by the ASF infrastructure team. It
is intended as a secondary extemporaneous mechanism for community engagement.
The primary mechanism for chat in the community is the mailing list, and will
remain so, as this is essentially policy within Apache... and those are as open
as you can possibly get. Other, even third-party, venues are possible. However,
I would advise against them, because (especially in small communities), having
too many venues fractures the community discussions and makes it harder to stay
informed about project activities. I would advise the chat venues be limited to
the mailing lists, and other ASF-provided services (Slack, JIRA, etc.)
> Web-based developer and user chat?
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> Key: THRIFT-5113
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-5113
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Mario Emmenlauer
> Priority: Minor
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> I think it would be very helpful if there where a developer chat, where users
> and developers could ask questions and get (sometimes) a response with
> shorter turnaround times and less overhead. Is this something thrift
> developers could consider?
> An often-used web-based chat with little overhead that integrates well with
> github is [https://gitter.im/]. There are already a significant number of
> Apache projects present:
> * [https://gitter.im/apache/home]
> Relates to THRIFT-5112
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