I've never gone there either. +1 for retiring. On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:34 PM, J. Rottinghuis <jrottingh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Uhm, there is an IRC channel?!? > > Joep > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Sangjin Lee <sj...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I seldom check out IRC (as my experience was the same). I'm OK with > > retiring it if no committers are around. > > > > On a related note, I know Tsuyoshi set up a slack channel for the > > committers. Even that one is pretty idle. :) Should we use it more often? > > If that starts to gain traction, we could set up a more open room for > users > > as well. > > > > Sangjin > > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Recently, Andrew Wang and I were at an academic conference where one of > > the > > > attendees (a grad student) was mentioning that his posts to the IRC > > channel > > > are never answered. > > > > > > Personally, I haven't been using the IRC channel. Neither do I know > > anyone > > > who is actively monitoring it. > > > > > > I am emailing to check: > > > > > > 1. Are there folks actively monitoring the IRC channel and answering > > > questions? > > > 2. If there is no one, should we consider retiring the channel? > > > > > > Thanks > > > Karthik > > > > > >