+1 for slack On Saturday, July 18, 2015, Neha Narkhede <n...@confluent.io> wrote:
> 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 > <javascript:;>> 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 > <javascript:;>> 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 >
