Hipchat is a wonderful software. I think opening it for community day can be a good step but I would refrain to open it on the daily basis. Thanks!
-- Kind Regards Ashish Vijaywargiya HotWax Systems - est. 1997 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 >
