Ok for those interested to try it out, Thomas created the “xwiki” chat room and 4F2E4A2E created the “xwiki-contrib” one (they’re linked to the github organizations):
- https://gitter.im/xwiki - https://gitter.im/xwiki-contrib We’ll see if we need to close one. ATM it’s just a test. Thanks -Vincent On 16 Oct 2015 at 09:56:23, Thomas Mortagne ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > 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] 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
