I'm in two minds about it. On one hand it's nice to be able to chat in real time with other community members and increasing our sense of community is important for the project.
But on the other hand, I fear it would too often be used to have discussions that should really be had on the user/dev lists. The benefits of our discussions on these email lists being archived and searchable really can't be understated, I use it heavily to refresh my memory (along with svn history) about anything and everything OFBiz related. If the HipChat logs were stored with the ASF and made public I would 100% be in favor of using it. Maybe in the future infra can come up with something more suitable. Community days might be a good compromise between the two positions though, we could perhaps even copy/paste the chat logs into confluence for future reference and to benefit those who were unable to attend. Regards Scott On 24 August 2016 at 17:27, Ashish Vijaywargiya < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
