[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Terry Reedy
On 5/15/2021 1:01 PM, Paul Moore wrote: Specifically, we tried Zulip and it failed, in the sense that basically no-one uses it. So let's start by working out *why* it failed. I never tried it because it was introduced about the same time as 'discuss', and it was enough for me to learn

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 15/05/2021 à 19:01, Paul Moore a écrit : So let's start by working out *why* it failed. I don't see any point in having a vote, which comes up with the conclusion that (say) people like Discord, if we then set that up and there's no-one on there. If we were to ask the question, why did

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 16:58, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > > I see lots of vague complaining and no concrete argument. > > Really? I don't see that way. So far, I see that few others find > settling upon chat solution will be useful for core-dev too. I see a general interest in *having* some sort

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Brett Cannon
As a data point for where newer language communities have ended up, Rust is on Discord and Zulip. On Fri., May 14, 2021, 19:14 Dong-hee Na, wrote: > Believe it or not, there are people who are not familiar with the IRC > culture. > And those people are who enter the opensource culture after the

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Eric V. Smith
On 5/15/2021 11:57 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: You still haven't explained why e.g. Zulip (which has a modern Web UI, a very well-thought threading mechanism, several clients, many integrations, is widely used, and is open source),

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 15/05/2021 à 17:57, Senthil Kumaran a écrit : On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: You still haven't explained why e.g. Zulip (which has a modern Web UI, a very well-thought threading mechanism, several clients, many integrations, is widely used, and is open

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 05:17:03PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 15/05/2021 à 17:11, Dong-hee Na a écrit : > > > > So I agree with you and my suggestion may not be an objective perspective. > > But I think that if we decide to choose to adopt new communication > > tools, I think that we

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > You still haven't explained why e.g. Zulip (which has a modern Web UI, a > very well-thought threading mechanism, several clients, many integrations, > is widely used, and is open source), doesn't « address our evolving needs ». -

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 15/05/2021 à 17:11, Dong-hee Na a écrit : So I agree with you and my suggestion may not be an objective perspective. But I think that if we decide to choose to adopt new communication tools, I think that we can remove the danger factor which makes people not use after some period. What

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Brandt Bucher
Paul Moore wrote: > In case it's not clear, I'd *like* a chat-style community, but I'd prefer it > to be a little more "social". We have plenty of "work-related" communication > channels, but IMO we don't really have anywhere that's the online equivalent > of the workplace "hanging out around

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Dong-hee Na
> If you're not familiar with > Zulip, it will take little time before you can use it reasonably well. > Same for Slack, Discord, Gitter... and also Discourse, by the way. > Mostly because people go where their friends / colleagues / > acquaintances are. In other words, those are network effects

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 15/05/2021 à 16:37, Dong-hee Na a écrit : > You still haven't explained why e.g. Zulip I think that Zulip is a good service and AFAIK Zulip is the OSS project based on Python. But I think that such communication tools should be evaluated not only technology side but also on how people

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Dong-hee Na
> You still haven't explained why e.g. Zulip I think that Zulip is a good service and AFAIK Zulip is the OSS project based on Python. But I think that such communication tools should be evaluated not only technology side but also on how people feel familiar with UI/UX. I don't want to evaluate

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le 15/05/2021 à 13:23, Senthil Kumaran a écrit : On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 11:13:48AM +0900, Dong-hee Na wrote: So I'm also a supporter of new communication tools. I agree with everything you've mentioned, Dong-hee. Need for good tool/system that addressed our evolving needs was one of the

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Dong-hee Na
> * Does it have a good web-client experience MS teams look like provide the web client. > In case it's not clear, I'd *like* a chat-style community, but I'd > prefer it to be a little more "social". I agree that we need to be more social. I share my personal news with Victor and it would be

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 11:13:48AM +0900, Dong-hee Na wrote: > So I'm also a supporter of new communication tools. I agree with everything you've mentioned, Dong-hee. Need for good tool/system that addressed our evolving needs was one of the driver of this conversation. Thanks!

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-15 Thread Paul Moore
On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 03:14, Dong-hee Na wrote: > > Believe it or not, there are people who are not familiar with the IRC culture. > And those people are who enter the opensource culture after the 2010s. > That period coincides with the growth of GitHub. > > So I'm also a supporter of new