At least the good thing for once is that they have a Linux desktop support and it works well.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:48 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I feel it would help the XWiki project if we had some chat infrastructure > more user-friendly than IRC channel (which is currently mostly used by the > xwiki developers and a few power contributors/users). I think it would help > spread xwiki more and be more friendly to our community (btw the same should > be done for the mailing list by moving the user mailing list to a forum but > that’s for another thread). > > I wonder if you guys would be interested to moving to another tool such as > Gitter.im: https://gitter.im/ > > It seems to be nice for open communities. Nicer than Slack anyway (I’ve tried > Slack for another community I’m in and we quickly reached the 10K messages > and it’s not nice to have this red reminder message and you loose some > messages that you can’t see - See > http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it.html). > > Of course another strategy would be to ask a company to host a tool for us, > such as http://www.mattermost.org/ but setting it up and maintaining it has a > price and we’d need to convince some company like XWiki SAS to do that and > I’m not sure it’s worth it. > > Let me know what you think and if you’re ok to try it, I’ll set up an org on > gitter so that we can make an experiment and try it out. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
