Hi Nicos, Thanks for bring up this discussion. :-) Slack is a good way to communicate, but it seems not very fit for the open source field. The messages on Slack are mixed up and can not be searched through search engine.
Best, Hequn On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:22 PM Nicos Maris <nicos.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chesnay can you take a look at the following PR? > > https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/120 > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:09 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> There have been previous discussions around using slack and they were >> rejected. >> >> Personally I would just remove the IRC channel; I'm not aware of any >> committer actually spending time there. >> >> On 25.08.2018 17:07, Nicos Maris wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> This mailing list is for user support and questions. If you would also >> use slack for user support and questions, then please vote at the following >> ticket. If you don't have an account at that jira, you can reply to this >> email with a "+1". >> >> >> [FLINK-10217 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3862>] use >> Slack for user support and questions >> >> Current status >> >> For user support and questions, users are instructed to subscribe to >> user@flink.apache.org but there are users like me who enjoy using also a >> chat channel. However, the instructions to do so are not clear and the IRC >> activity is low and it is definitely not indicative of the project's >> activity >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3862?focusedCommentId=16152376&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16152376> >> . >> >> The website <https://flink.apache.org/community.html> mentions that "If >> you want to talk with the Flink committers and users in a chat, there is an >> IRC >> channel <https://flink.apache.org/community.html#irc>." >> Option 1: Use Slack >> >> An example of an Apache project that is using Slack >> <https://tedium.co/2017/10/17/irc-vs-slack-chat-history> is: >> http://mesos.apache.org/community >> >> I can assist on setting it up if at least one expert joins from the very >> beginning. >> Option 2: Keep using IRC and document it >> >> Add the missing section >> <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/blob/master/community.md#irc> at >> the website along with instructions for people who have never used IRC. >> Option 3: Use only the mailing list >> >> Use only user@flink.apache.org for user support and questions and do not >> mention IRC at the website. >> >> >>
