Thanks all. I'm intrigued by Discourse (for some reason I keep typing "discourge.org"); we should inquire with ASF infra to see if they would be willing to support it for us. It's important that we develop a public record for the project, and for that data to be archived and indexed in some place that is owned by the ASF. I'm frankly -0 on having a fourth communication channel (outside of e-mail/JIRA/GitHub) since three is already a lot to keep track of. If we had a larger maintainer team, I might feel differently.
Travis had some questions about GitHub and JIRA. JIRA is the only system of record for concrete development activity in the project. We use GitHub pull requests to submit patches (some projects use Gerrit, or attach patch files to JIRA), but all of the data generated on these PRs (code review comments, etc.) is mirrored back to JIRA. Furthermore, JIRA activity is relayed to the iss...@arrow.apache.org mailing list. So ultimately we have a public record for the project on mailing lists. Many newcomers have never interacted with an Apache project before, and so when they go to http://github.com/apache/arrow their first reaction is to look for the Issues tab to report a bug or ask for something. For a long time we didn't have issues turned on, and we found that people were "bouncing" rather than seeking out the mailing list or JIRA. We'd rather capture the information somewhere rather than lose it. We have an issue template asking people to either use the mailing list or JIRA, but a lot of people ignore it unfortunately: https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md. - Wes On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Kenta Murata <mura...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I heard from Kou that you’re discussing to stop using Slack. > So I want to propose another way to use Discourse. > > On 2018/06/21 18:46:54, Dhruv Madeka <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> The issue with discourse is that you either have to host it or pay for them >> to host it > > Discourse provides free hosting plan for community friendly opensource > projects. > See this article for the details: > <https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/> > >> but still +1 for discourse, its a really nice format (I actually +1'ed the >> PyTorch forum on this thread too) > > I’m also +1 for discourse because I’m managing > https://discourse.ruby-data.org/ by this plan. > > > Regards, > Kenta Murata
