I think we should try to keep ownership over the #hadoop channel (do we have ownership?) but make it clear on the website and in the channel greeting that this is for user-on-user discussion, and it's not actively monitored by developers.
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Akira AJISAKA <ajisa...@oss.nttdata.co.jp> wrote: > I'm not using the IRC channel (#hadoop at irc.freenode.net.) > I'm using slack (hadoopdev.slack.com) instead. > > -Akira > > > On 7/14/16 14:48, Ravi Prakash wrote: > >> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >
