Of course we also need to think about our IRC bot which has several nice features we need to keep. An especially important one IMO is the ability to have our logs archived on xwiki.org. Of course the gitter integrations are very easy to develop but it would still need to be done.
Note that there’s a IRC bridge too that allows to continue using one’s own IRC client: https://irc.gitter.im/ Thanks -Vincent On 16 Oct 2015 at 11:07:12, [email protected] ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > One issue I’ve just realized is that Gitter requires to log in with a github > account (it does make it easy to create one from the web site). It would have > been nicer to be to able to have social logins or even some anonymous mode > which is what IRC offers. > > Is this a blocker/no go? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > On 16 Oct 2015 at 10:33:50, [email protected] > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > Ok so here’s more info (as I discover it): > > > > - https://gitter.im/xwiki/public this open to everyone to join > > - https://gitter.im/xwiki is private to all members of the xwiki org in > > github, acting like a room for xwiki committers > > - https://gitter.im/xwiki-contrib is private to all members of the > > xwiki-contrib org in github, acting like a room for xwiki-contrib committers > > > > Thus we should use the https://gitter.im/xwiki/public room as much as > > possible since that’s the public one. > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > > > On 16 Oct 2015 at 10:10:42, [email protected] > > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > > > 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
