Hi guys --
We've been (slowly) having discussions that are _somewhat_ similar to this
within the team at Cray, motivated in part by a desire to move away from
SourceForge mailing lists (and in part for want of something better).
You can see some indications of this discussion (and chime in on it for
aspects related to mailing list replacements) here:
https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/issues/6440
You're also welcome to open an issue with a more specific IRC replacement
theme (e.g., "create a stateful alternative to IRC"). At a high level
I'll say that I'm open to this, though also nervous about switching
technologies too frequently (and/or continually growing the number of
forums we need to monitor).
I would also be happy to utilize such a "3rd" forum if available
for asking questions & topics that do not fit very well with
StackOverflow and Github issue (e.g., asking practical experience,
code design, performance tips, etc..).
I think, today, the IRC channels and Chapel mailing lists are that third
(and fourth) forum, for better or worse.
Though I have no experience of Gitter/Slack/IRC,
one forum I felt convenient is Discourse because it
provides various features including bookmarking.
https://www.discourse.org/
We looked into Discourse a bit (and haven't ruled it out yet). I'd say
the two biggest negatives are a likely increase in hosting cost for our
website and the learning curve/effort to establish it (set it up and
organize it). There'd also be some learning curve to utilizing it (for
those of us who haven't), though I think this is less significant.
I'm not very familiar with Gitter (i.e., we didn't explore it as a mailing
list alternative). Would it be accurate to say that, like a chatroom, it
is a single logical stream of chats (i.e., no thread hierarchy or
tree-based structure?). I.e., it'd be much more of an IRC replacement /
addition than a mailing list replacement? Does it story history, permit
tagging users and notifications to them when they come back online?
If so, chat.stackexchange.com seems to provide a similar service (IRC with
history, persistence, and notifications even when you're offline), and has
the benefit of being integrated with StackOverflow. (I also happen to be
familiar with it, so can imagine what using it is like better than
Gitter... not that I'm ruling it out, just curious for a comparison
between the two).
I'm similarly unfamiliar with Slack, though I have a positive impression
of it. That said, I don't have a sense of where it falls in this space
and how it would be as an IRC and/or mailing list replacement.
Thanks,
-Brad
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