Slack sounds good and I'm not a fan of gitter (we use it for Apache Sqoop, I dislike the GUI and the guilt-inducing emails about all the messages I missed...) Do they have free rooms for open source projects?
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Psaltis <psaltis.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > +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 >>
