So, as an experiment, I created: https://apachekafka.slack.com
I figured we'll give it a whirl for a week or two for dev discussions, see how it goes and if we have activity we can add this to the website and announce on the lists. Gwen On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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 >>>
