Interestingly Skype just announced the following yesterday which is great for communities (and would be nice for us too): http://blogs.skype.com/2015/10/15/a-new-easier-way-to-start-a-skype-conversation-and-invite-anyone-to-join/
Thanks -Vincent On 16 Oct 2015 at 11:56:05, Eduard Moraru ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:31 PM, [email protected] > wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > This applies for our IRC bot as well, as it is, as long as we create a > github user for it to use while connecting to gitter's IRC bridge. > > Thanks, > Eduard > > > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
