Hi, Gwen, I would like a Slack invite, *please*. :-)
Cheers, Eddie Em 19/07/2015 02:00, "Gwen Shapira" <gshap...@cloudera.com> escreveu: > FYI: > Joining Slack requires an invitation. We can take invite-requests in > the mailing lists (like we do for KIP hangout). > I wanted to point this out as this may be considered non-Apache > (although I didn't find any specific wording against invite-only > channels in addition to the mailing list). > > So, if you want to try it out, yell for an invite :) > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Gwen Shapira <gshap...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > 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 > >>>> >
