There are N chat options out there, and of course there's no need or way to stop people from using them. If 1 is blessed as 'best', it excludes others who prefer a different one. Tomorrow there will be a New Best Chat App. If a bunch are blessed, the conversation fractures.
There's also a principle that important-ish discussions should take place on official project discussion forums, i.e., the mailing lists. Chat is just chat but sometimes discussions appropriate to the list happen there. For this reason I've always thought it best to punt on official-ish chat and let it happen organically as it will, with a request to port any important discussions to the list. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Akhil Das <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com> wrote: > Freenode already has a bit active channel under #Apache-spark, I think Josh > idle there sometimes. > > Thanks > Best Regards > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Nicholas Chammas < > nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Would we be interested in having a public chat room? >> >> Gitter <http://gitter.im> offers them for free for open source projects. >> It's like web-based IRC. >> >> Check out the Docker room for example: >> >> https://gitter.im/docker/docker >> >> And if people prefer to use actual IRC, Gitter offers a bridge for that >> <https://irc.gitter.im/> to their service. >> >> All we need is someone who's a member of the Apache GitHub group to create >> a room for us. >> >> It should show up under >> >> https://gitter.im/apache/spark >> >> when it's ready. >> >> What do y'all think? >> >> Nick >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
