Folks, let me share more details on why Anton started the conversation about Ignite Slack: http://apache-ignite-developers.2346864.n4.nabble.com/The-ASF-Slack-td43233.html
Recently, a group of GridGain and Sberbank committers of Ignite has met to discuss how to make our community more transparent and open. Anton and I took part in that meeting. The primary problems we see in regards to transparency and openness are as follows: - A lot of discussions on the dev list abrupts suddenly and it's unclear whether a discussion is abandoned or something else is going on in the background with a task/bug/improvement. In many cases, we tend to fall back to faster communication ways like instant messaging, calls, or face-to-face meetings that are not visible to the rest of the community. Emails (dev list) are the right communication channel but not for all of the stages. - Change reviews seem to be in a chaotic state. Sometimes it takes many rounds for a committer to urge another committer to do a review. In many cases, the other committer might be simply overwhelmed with regular tasks imposed by an employer. It will be good to come up with some public tracking approach that will help us all to see who and when will be able to review certain changes and make them to Ignite. To address the problems we want to propose the following: - Keep using dev list the way you do today. No changes need to be done here. - Introduce Ignite Slack for instant messaging across all the community members who are obviously employed by different companies. Ignite PMC will be managing channels for various topics. Go to Slack when email (dev list) conversation is no longer effective, the way we do daily, no need to complicate our lives just because we work on an open-source project together. - Two or more committers need to talk verbally? Go ahead and schedule a meeting with Google Hangouts or another tool. Send an invite to the dev list for those who'd like to join and listen or share opinion. Want to talk in your native language? Go ahead and put a disclaimer that a conversation will be in Chinese, Russia, French, whatever. Simple and open. - Don't know how soon you'll be able to review some changes and, thus, ignoring other committers requests? GridGain and Sberbank are ready to propose a solution here. Both vendors use an approach to cooperate between GridGain and Sberbank committers. Now we'd like to make it fully open and adjust for community needs if required. Thoughts, suggestions? I think we'll schedule a community meeting to finish the conversation or discuss any cornerstone points. But start with your questions first. - Denis
