+1 removing links to IRC channel.
> On Jul 20, 2017, at 9:27 AM, Bobby Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com.INVALID> wrote:
>
> I agree if it is not being use then lets remove it.
>
>
> - Bobby
>
>
> On Thursday, July 20, 2017, 9:57:57 AM CDT, Jungtaek Lim <kabh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I don't see the benefit of keeping IRC channel for users, so OK to remove
> it from anywhere in Storm site or code repo.
>
> Btw, Apache Beam maintains Slack channel but it's likely for contributors
> and committers. Personally I like the approach, but in order to make this
> successful, many of us need to tolerate having one more interactive
> (ping-able) channel. If they're dedicated to Storm project it doesn't
> matter, but if not it might really matter.
>
> - Jungtaek Lim (HeartSaVioR)
>
> 2017년 7월 20일 (목) 오후 11:30, Bobby Evans <ev...@yahoo-inc.com>님이 작성:
>
>> Moving to the dev mailing list as it is more than just the PMC that
>> provides support for storm.
>>
>>
>> - Bobby
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 19, 2017, 6:27:12 PM CDT, Hugo Louro <
>> hmclo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The first question is, do we want to provide chat support? It has the pro
>> of being more interactive, but the con of making info more disperse.
>>
>> If the decision is to go with having an official chat, one can evaluate if
>> there are better chat and/or more integrated alternatives, e.g Gitter
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitter>.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hugo
>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Kyle Nusbaum <knusb...@yahoo-inc.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We've had a #storm-user channel on Freenode forever, but we seem to have
>> almost totally abandoned it. We still direct users there on our website:
>> http://storm.apache.org/
>> getting-help.html <http://storm.apache.org/getting-help.html> but the
>> information found in the channel is terribly out of date and incorrect.
>>
>>
>> I peek in there every once in a while, and users frequently show up with
>> questions. Probably many are going unanswered. I wonder if it makes our
>> project seem a little dead if the help channel we list on our web page is
>> so out of date and inactive.
>>
>> Currently Nathan is the only user with permission to change anything. I
>> think we should either update the info on the channel and maybe try and do
>> something with it, or remove it from the website.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -- Kyle
>>
