FWIW, if the apache-kafka channel was on Slack, I'd hang out there :-) On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi Grant, > > I have been considering proposing the same thing myself for similar > reasons, but I also have some doubts. More comments inline. > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Grant Henke <ghe...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > I think it could be useful to have a place to chat that is associated > with > > the Kafka repo. > > > Agreed. > > > > Note that we do currently have an IRC channel, but from my > > experience its a ghost town. > > > > I've recently joined #apache-kafka and activity is low, yes, but there is > some[1]. The bigger issue, perhaps, is that contributors are not there. Do > we think that this would be different with Gitter? And, if so, what is the > reason? Is it because no application needs to be installed? In theory, > IRCCloud provides something similar for IRC (although the limitations of > the trial and the upgrade nagging can be annoying) and we could link to the > channel in GitHub's readme. > > Also, are there any Apache projects who use Gitter? There was a thread in > the Spark mailing list, but the response wasn't positive[2]. We would need > Apache Infra to set-up Gitter for us as they are the only ones that have > write access to the repository (the set-up is really easy though, which is > definitely a positive). > > Gitter may be the right answer, I just want to make sure it actually helps > us have a more active channel instead of splitting the existing activity > between two channels. > > Thoughts? > > Best, > Ismael > > [1] https://botbot.me/freenode/apache-kafka/2015-07-06/?tz=Europe/London > [2] > > http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Gitter-chat-room-for-Spark-td11636.html > -- Thanks, Neha
