Why don't we have a committers IRC channel? The members one is useful, and I don't see that 3000 is some unfeasible number. There are more than 3000 Tomcat users but the Tomcat channel isn't insane.
Hen On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > The ASF spans the globe in terms of contributors, as such we do not, as a > rule, adopt synchronous communication tools - they exclude people who are in > other time zones. In the ASF we have a saying: "if it didn't happen on a > mailing list, it didn't happen". Furthermore, we have over 100 top level and > over 50 incubating projects. There are over 3000 committers and who knows > how many contributors. An ASF wide IRC channel would be kind of noisy (some > projects do use IRC for informal chatter). > > You can find our blog roll at planet.Apache.org and many of our projects > have blogs at blog.apache.org > > Our ASF-wide GSoC focused mailing list is this one, so you are in the right > place, welcome. For discussion about a specific project you would use the > projects own mailing list. > > Ross > > Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. > > On Mar 24, 2012 10:55 PM, "Sonny from Tacoma" <ikste...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:29 AM, akshay khatri <akshaykhatri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I wanted to get into Apache development. Though I am looking into various >>> projects and looking what interests me. >>> But I wanted to put in some views that I have noticed: >>> >>> 1) I didn't find any IRC channel for apache >>> 2) It is good that mailing list is one of the prime means to communicate >>> in Apache but I feel that lack of IRC or active blog roll would have been >>> great. As mailing list isn't supposed to chat with fellow developers, >>> sharing ideas (other than development) >>> Or is it that in Apache familiarizing with people happen only if you live >>> close by or know each other in prior ? (or no discussion other than >>> development is required/allowed among people ) >>> >>> 3) I just saw that GSoC results were out, but didn't find any >>> email/blog/news from apache about the same. >>> >>> 4) As a prospective student, I was looking to familiarize with other >>> students all over Apache, but again no mode of communication to them and I >>> strongly believe that there wouldn't be any correspondence between >>> student/developers among various apache projects. >>> ( IRC is really a great thing for that and I believe a community today >>> should have IRC culture to grow ) >>> >>> These were just my inputs, only aiming to know other people. >>> >>> Just an example of what I am feeling: Fellow students/developers/gsoc >>> students please email me personally so that I may know you better.(and let >>> it go to thousands of busy persons over there) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> Harrison Valetski >> 2304 South Jefferson Avenue >> Tacoma Wa, 98402 >> (253) 382 - 4308 >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: community-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: community-h...@apache.org
