Re: Confused where to post user type questions

2017-11-29 Thread Mike Percy
Hi Boris, Thanks again for asking about this and I'm happy that you enjoyed listening to me blab about Kudu! Mark Rittman and the Roaring Elephant guys were very kind and fun to talk to. I'll note that I think the more recent one (with Roaring Elephant) had the better audio quality of the two recor

Re: Confused where to post user type questions

2017-11-29 Thread Boris Tyukin
totally makes sense to me. thanks Mike and Andrew. Mike, on a side note, I was just listening to a drill to detail and roaring elephant podcasts featuring you :) you did a really great job explaining Kudu's role in Big Data ecosystem, I enjoyed both episodes and they were one year apart I think so

Re: Confused where to post user type questions

2017-11-29 Thread Mike Percy
Hi Boris, Here's my 2 cents. To some extent, chat vs email is a matter of personal preference and we try to support both. Personally I think Slack is nice for instant feedback when you can get it, but email lists are better for questions. Chat channels are a kind of stream-of-conversations and I o

Re: Confused where to post user type questions

2017-11-29 Thread Andrew Wong
Hi Boris, Thanks for reaching out! Yeah, currently the most active place to ask questions is the Kudu slack #kudu-general channel. Sometimes we talk about dev stuff, but it is also a place user questions. Given its activity, sometimes user questions fall through the cracks, although we try to avoi

Confused where to post user type questions

2017-11-29 Thread Boris Tyukin
Hi folks, as a new user to Kudu, it is confusing what is the best venue to post user type questions about Kudu which is important for any thriving open source project. I have posted some questions on slack and got a feeling they were not welcome there as discussions on slack seem to be focused on