Hi Pawel, I'd like to hear more about your idea. Could you explain more why you would like to have a gitter channel? What are the advantages over a mailing list (like this one)? Have you had good experiences using gitter on other open source projects?
Xinh On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I don't know of a gitter channel and I don't use it myself, FWIW. I > think anyone's welcome to start one. > > I hesitate to recommend this, simply because it's preferable to have > one place for discussion rather than split it over several, and, we > have to keep the @spark.apache.org mailing lists as the "forums of > records" for project discussions. > > If something like gitter doesn't attract any chat, then it doesn't add > any value. If it does though, then suddenly someone needs to subscribe > to user@ and gitter to follow all of the conversations. > > I think there is a bit of a scalability problem on the user@ list at > the moment, just because it covers all of Spark. But adding a > different all-Spark channel doesn't help that. > > Anyway maybe that's "why" > > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Paweł Szulc <paul.sz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > no answer, but maybe one more time, a gitter channel for spark users > would > > be a good idea! > > > > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Paweł Szulc <paul.sz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I was wondering - why Spark does not have a gitter channel? > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Paul Szulc > >> > >> twitter: @rabbitonweb > >> blog: www.rabbitonweb.com > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Paul Szulc > > > > twitter: @rabbitonweb > > blog: www.rabbitonweb.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > >
