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From: Sangjin Lee <sjlee@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 15:13:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: Feedback on IRC channel
To: Karthik Kambatla <kasha@cloudera.com>
Cc: "common-dev@hadoop.apache.org" <common-dev@hadoop.apache.org>
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I seldom check out IRC (as my experience was the same). I'm OK with
retiring it if no committers are around.

On a related note, I know Tsuyoshi set up a slack channel for the
committers. Even that one is pretty idle. :) Should we use it more often?
If that starts to gain traction, we could set up a more open room for users
as well.

Sangjin

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Karthik Kambatla <kasha@cloudera.com>
wrote:

> Recently, Andrew Wang and I were at an academic conference where one of the
> attendees (a grad student) was mentioning that his posts to the IRC channel
> are never answered.
>
> Personally, I haven't been using the IRC channel. Neither do I know anyone
> who is actively monitoring it.
>
> I am emailing to check:
>
>    1. Are there folks actively monitoring the IRC channel and answering
>    questions?
>    2. If there is no one, should we consider retiring the channel?
>
> Thanks
> Karthik
>

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