Interesting indeed! On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting. I didn't know about the IRC channel. The hbase group uses > IRC > extensively. > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There seems to be a continuous, mostly lurking, handful of people in > > the IRC channel #mahout on irc.freenode.net and I've seen a few > > questions asked/answered there lately, despite the low number of > > participants. > > > > Someone today asked "is this an official channel?" > > > > I'm not sure what "official" would mean here, but that aside ... is it > > worth mentioning #mahout in > > https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/mahout-wiki.html#MahoutWiki-Community > > ? > > > > The nearby #hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/common/irc.html) has 122 > > users in it (#solr 89, #hadoop-pig 12, ...). > > > > I'd edit the wiki but the front page seems locked down. Suggest something > > like: > > > > "* For IRC users, there is a (not yet heavily used) channel #mahout on > > irc.freenode.net, alongside related channels e.g. #hadoop " > > > > I assume it would be a mistake to put anything in the wiki that gives > > impression that IRC questions will be answered, but since neigbouring > > technologies are well represented in IRC, maybe mentioning the > > potential venue is worthwhile. Presumably many Solr, Hadoop, Pig users > > are at least Mahout-curious? > > > > cheers, > > > > Dan > > >
