I agree that IRC is harder to use and does not retain history. I think Slack might be a better choice than Gitter, but both are better than IRC.
To be honest, I don’t know if any project with an active Slack or Gitter. ~~~~~ May All Your Sequences Converge > On Jan 21, 2018, at 11:16 PM, Nimit Bhardwaj <nimitbhard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No doubt the Chapel-lang project has its IRC, but the people present there > are not much, according to me, its because many people who are new to IRC > don't know about the IRC bouncers, and moreover due to the timing issues of > different countries, like for India and US, there is difference of 12 hrs, so > its not much likely that answer to question can be given that much quickly. > > So I was thinking to suggest to use Gitter chat for the project, it will be > easy to use, requires no IRC bouncer, simple and straight forward, moreover > we can provide the bots in Gitter chat which may also guide the users about > the project, and any small queries like asking the position of code, asking a > little help for code etc for contributing purpose can be made easy. > > These were my views about adding a place for discussion, which is more > interactive than using mailing lists or IRC. > > Please give your reviews. > > Thank You > Yours Truly > Nimit Bhardwaj > NIT Hamirpur, India > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! > http://sdm.link/slashdot_______________________________________________ > Chapel-users mailing list > Chapel-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chapel-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Chapel-users mailing list Chapel-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/chapel-users
