Hi Sharan, Thanks for starting this thread. In general, I think that setting up HipChat environment is a good step and it helps to communicate with other committers and collaborate on common tasks. So in my opinion we can make it available on permanent basis.
About using it for whole community on community days can be good idea. However using it in all other days may not be good idea for whole community. So yes, as you mentioned that discussions and decisions will still be done on mailing lists. Once we have some thing concrete to work upon after discussions on mailing lists and we have volunteers who will be working together on common task, then they might use HipChat for collaboration. +1 for using HipChat on upcoming community day. Thanks -- Divesh Dutta. On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Sharan Foga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > A few weeks ago, in response to the results of the Committer Survey, I > setup a trial Hipchat environment to help with Committer Mentoring. (See > links to the previous discussion threads below:) > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b8738c3adcb1b7aafd7c90f9b1cbb > 54500578d8cd392c3b18d635b9@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b64aad3bbaca967cf432adfd62ce6 > 8901c95218a8aa59d706aed6bc@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E > > I really liked the HipChat environment and think that it's a great > collaborative tool that also helps build community spirit. So now I'd like > to get some feedback :-) > > First of all I'd like to hear from the committers and mentors who > participated to find out what they thought of the HipChat environment, what > their general comments are and whether they would like it to be made > available on a permanent basis. > > Secondly I'd like to get some general feedback from everyone to find out > if the whole community would also be interested in participating in HipChat > environment (e.g. for collaborating on Jiras, or during our Community > Days). Other ASF projects have HipChat spaces setup and publish a link that > anyone can use to join and we could do the same. > > The mailing list would still be used for discussions and decisions but if > people are working together on a particular task then this could be a good > way to speed up the process. I'm thinking particularly about things like > the re-factoring and our Jira backlog where bringing together the reporter > and the developer could make things move a lot more quickly!) > > We have another Community Day coming up in a few weeks on 17th September > so it could be a good chance to see how it could work in action. What do > people think? > > Thanks > Sharan >
