Hi Dominik, I was writing about gitter just now :)
If searchability is an issue, then indeed we could consider the free plan of gitter: https://billing.gitter.im In any case, we should instruct users who paste code snippets at the mailing list to use http://gist.github.com On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 4:13 PM Dominik Wosiński <wos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Dominik Wosiński <wos...@gmail.com> > Date: niedz., 26 sie 2018 o 15:12 > Subject: ODP: would you join a Slack workspace for Flink? > To: Hequn Cheng <chenghe...@gmail.com> > > > Hey, > I have been facing this issue for multiple open source projects and > discussions. Slack in my opinion has two main issues : > > - the already mentioned issue with searching, through search > engine > > - Slack is still commercial application. > > The second issue is quite important, because for free version Slack gives > 10k messages of history. I personally think that for Flink this would to > loss all messages that are older than a week possibly. This is the big > issue as it woul most certainly lead to asking the same questions over and > over again. I’ve seen really big slack groups for some big projects where > the history would last like 3-4 days and this is pure nightmare. > > The better solution would be to use gitter than Slack IMHO if there is > need for such way of communication. > > Best Regards, > Dominik. > > > > Wysłane z aplikacji Poczta > <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> dla Windows 10 > > > > *Od: *Hequn Cheng <chenghe...@gmail.com> > *Wysłano: *niedziela, 26 sierpnia 2018 14:37 > *Do: *Nicos Maris <nicos.ma...@gmail.com> > *DW: *ches...@apache.org; user <user@flink.apache.org> > *Temat: *Re: would you join a Slack workspace for Flink? > > > > Hi Nicos, > > > > Thanks for bring up this discussion. :-) > > Slack is a good way to communicate, but it seems not very fit for the open > source field. The messages on Slack are mixed up and can not be searched > through search engine. > > > > Best, Hequn > > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 7:22 PM Nicos Maris <nicos.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Chesnay can you take a look at the following PR? > > > > https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/120 > > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 1:09 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> > wrote: > > There have been previous discussions around using slack and they were > rejected. > > Personally I would just remove the IRC channel; I'm not aware of any > committer actually spending time there. > > On 25.08.2018 17:07, Nicos Maris wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > This mailing list is for user support and questions. If you would also use > slack for user support and questions, then please vote at the following > ticket. If you don't have an account at that jira, you can reply to this > email with a "+1". > > > > > > [FLINK-10217 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3862>] use > Slack for user support and questions > Current status > > For user support and questions, users are instructed to subscribe to > user@flink.apache.org but there are users like me who enjoy using also a > chat channel. However, the instructions to do so are not clear and the IRC > activity is low and it is definitely not indicative of the project's > activity > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3862?focusedCommentId=16152376&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16152376> > . > > The website <https://flink.apache.org/community.html> mentions that "If > you want to talk with the Flink committers and users in a chat, there is an > IRC > channel <https://flink.apache.org/community.html#irc>." > Option 1: Use Slack > > An example of an Apache project that is using Slack > <https://tedium.co/2017/10/17/irc-vs-slack-chat-history> is: > http://mesos.apache.org/community > > I can assist on setting it up if at least one expert joins from the very > beginning. > Option 2: Keep using IRC and document it > > Add the missing section > <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/blob/master/community.md#irc> at the > website along with instructions for people who have never used IRC. > Option 3: Use only the mailing list > > Use only user@flink.apache.org for user support and questions and do not > mention IRC at the website. > > > > >
