Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Berenguer Blasi
+1 to a new channel, imo it will give that safe space to newcomers. Also happy to be flagged as a mentor, helper, contact point or whatever to the newcomers. On 8/11/21 21:10, Joshua McKenzie wrote: > Asking questions in front of 600 people (even virtually) can be > prohibitively hard for a lot

Re: Cassandra project biweekly status update 2021-11-08

2021-11-08 Thread Patrick McFadin
Since I have been re-playing Ghost of Tsushima, I felt a Haiku would be appropriate. my cluster is failing jConsole to the rescue now I am failing On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:46 PM Joshua McKenzie wrote: > First off - Congrats again to Sumanth Pasupuleti on becoming a committer on > the

Re: Cassandra site broken links

2021-11-08 Thread Melissa Logan
Michael, thank you for bringing to attention. I'm reviewing with the folks who created the site and I/they will reply with next steps. On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 10:38 AM Michael Shuler wrote: > I overwrote the result link - much better, no more 429s. > >

Cassandra project biweekly status update 2021-11-08

2021-11-08 Thread Joshua McKenzie
First off - Congrats again to Sumanth Pasupuleti on becoming a committer on the project! Well deserved; looking forward to working with you further. It looks like ponymail got an upgrade; I didn't even realize that was possible at this point. :) So caveat emptor: the links I put in here to

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Joshua McKenzie
Asking questions in front of 600 people (even virtually) can be prohibitively hard for a lot of people. I'm with Ekaterina; flagging certain people in the channel as "available to mentor" so new contributors would know who they could reach out to 1:1 to get situated and potentially build some

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread David Capwell
> Do newcomers feel confident enough to ask questions there? We get a few a quarter, guess the bigger question is “why do we not get more”? I don’t have issues following another channel, glad to help where I can. Another channel is low effort so I don’t have any issues trying to see if it

Re: Welcome Sumanth Pasupuleti as Apache Cassandra Committer

2021-11-08 Thread David Capwell
Congrats! > On Nov 8, 2021, at 4:00 AM, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > > Congrats !  > > Le ven. 5 nov. 2021 à 20:20, Jordan West a écrit : > >> Congratulations Sumanth! >> >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:17 PM Stefan Miklosovic < >> stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: >> >>> Welcome! >>>

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Benjamin Lerer
> cassandra-dev has low enough volume that newbie questions can be > accommodated. > I agree that we could deal with newbie questions on the cassandra-dev channel. The question for me is more: Do newcomers feel confident enough to ask questions there? Can we try anything different like people

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Benjamin Lerer
> > New developers or new users? > It is for New contributors that are working on their first patches. The idea is to create a safe space in which they could ask beginner questions about the code. Le lun. 8 nov. 2021 à 17:44, Matt Kennedy a écrit : > As an old timer trying to figure out for

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Dinesh Joshi
> On Nov 8, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Matt Kennedy wrote: > > welcome > the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in > which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems focused on Instead why don't we make cassandra-dev more approachable for new developers? If

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Ekaterina Dimitrova
Can we try anything different like people who volunteer as mentors to be contacted with questions at the beginning before people start feeling comfortable with channels? They can also be per specific area or something like that? I also feel that not many people will use another public channel,

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Matt Kennedy
As an old timer trying to figure out for himself how to re-engage on the community side after being focused on Astra for so long, I would welcome the addition of a dev slack channel as a much more approachable forum in which to ask stupid questions. This mailing least seems focused on the

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Jeff Jirsa
New developers or new users? I'd be afraid that a new developer-focused channel might not get many eyes (or, it'll get the same 600 eyes, and it'll have the same problem). On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:29 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit

Re: [DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Brandon Williams
I think that's a great idea. On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 10:29 AM Benjamin Lerer wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers > to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600 > followers and that we should probably

[DISCUSS] Creating a new slack channel for newcomers

2021-11-08 Thread Benjamin Lerer
Hi everybody, Aleksei Zotov mentioned to me that it was a bit intimidating for newcomers to ask beginner questions in the cassandra-dev channel as it has over 600 followers and that we should probably have a specific channel for newcomers. This proposal makes total sense to me. What is your

Re: Welcome Sumanth Pasupuleti as Apache Cassandra Committer

2021-11-08 Thread Benjamin Lerer
Congrats !  Le ven. 5 nov. 2021 à 20:20, Jordan West a écrit : > Congratulations Sumanth! > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 12:17 PM Stefan Miklosovic < > stefan.mikloso...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > > > Welcome! > > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 20:11, Joseph Lynch wrote: > > > > > > Congratulations