Those of you who participate on IRC have probably noticed that we are pretty regularly topping 200 users of late. That is an awesome indicator of the projects vitality, but at some point increased traffic results in decreased usefulness (at least for some).
As a result, there is a new channel, #cassandra-dev (also on Freenode). The idea is that this channel will be restricted to discussion of cassandra development only, while the existing channel will continue to be the place for support and development *against* cassandra. In order to make the new channel useful (and to prevent it from diminishing #cassandra), I propose the following guidelines: 1. Anyone is free to join; there are no technological restrictions (i.e. it's not moderated or invite-only). 2. On-topic is limited to the development *of* cassandra. Support questions (and basically anything else) are off-topic. 3. If you are found to be off-topic, you'll be kindly redirected to #cassandra (which in IMO is already an awesome resource for this). 4. Answering an off-topic question is considered off-topic. Goto #3 :) 5. The Cassandra community is an awesome bunch so I can't imagine that one or two iterations of #3 wouldn't be enough, but... 5a. Repeated violation of the on-topic rule may result in additional guidelines that specify decreasing levels of kindness and more forceful forms of redirection. :) The rationale for (1) is that this isn't about exclusivity, we're merely trying to increase usability. The rationale for (2) through (5a) is that there is no value in having two channels unless some distinction is enforced. Comments? Questions? -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
