Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-21 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:31 PM James Cameron wrote: > Over the past few days, we've had more discussion in Gitter than IRC. > > We still have Thomas (satellit) in IRC. > I'll deal with wherever(s). > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-21 Thread James Cameron
Over the past few days, we've had more discussion in Gitter than IRC. We still have Thomas (satellit) in IRC. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-21 Thread Rahul Bothra
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 11:12 PM Rahul Bothra My idea was to see how many people are willing > to move to Gitter, and if it be helpful for new contributors. > I've observed this to the only criteria in my recent (radical) > decisions and they've mostly been poorly thought out, > for us as an

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-21 Thread Rahul Bothra
Thanks James and Alex, I've reviewed all comments and suggestions. For most of the suggestions, I found no alternate but to use IRC. My idea was to see how many people are willing to move to Gitter, and if it be helpful for new contributors. I've observed this to the only criteria in my recent

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread Alex Perez
As an oversight board member, for all the same reasons cited below, I am 100% _not_ in favor of this proposal. It's a crude attempt at re-implementing IRC, and despite being open-source, is effectively a proprietary service, which there is no guarantee of continued support for. If you want to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Rahul. Please add to the plan; - critical people; identify the critical code maintainers and note when they have engaged with Gitter.im on a continuous basis; in particular we are yet to hear from Lionel and Ibiam. - licensing; as an open source project within the Software Freedom

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread Samson Goddy
Hello Rahul, Have you looked at Zulip? They host open source organization completely free and they are 100% open source and still have same platform as Slack, with a lot of access to integrate bots and even GitHub notifications. Easy to relate with. It has IOS, MAC OSX, Android, Windows and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread Shiv
Gitter uses your Twitter or GitHub username and avatar. You don’t set up and maintain a new identity on Gitter. You use your existing one. In a sense it looks like an extension of GitHub or Twitter, like you already have an account on Gitter and you just start using it. When your read discussions

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread Sumit Srivastava
+1 for Gitter over IRC given the recent spam tackling measures taken by freenode. Other advantages have already been mentioned, I raised this concern over mailing list too. It's high time we consider a switch. Regards Sumit Srivastava On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, 5:58 pm Vipul Gupta, wrote: > I do

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread Sumit Srivastava
Here's a relevant discussion regarding adoption Gitter I started about 11 months ago: https://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2018-February/055061.html Here are other relevant discussions: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2017-September/054825.html and here:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-20 Thread Sumit Srivastava
Here's a relevant discussion regarding adoption Gitter I started about 11 months ago: https://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2018-February/055061.html Here are other relevant discussions: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2017-September/054825.html and here:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-18 Thread Vipul Gupta
I do agree with Rahul over the change on communication mediums. This discussion rose a bit at the start of GSoC 2018 as well, with many fellow contributors who wanted to apply to Sugar Labs didn't because they could get a response. And yes, its absolutely okay for a time to have no people in the

[Sugar-devel] Suggestion on moving from IRC to Gitter

2019-01-18 Thread Rahul Bothra
I am proposing a change in the communication medium from IRC to Gitter. I've made a Gitter Community at https://gitter.im/Sugar-Labs, for people to try it out. In case people don't like the change, we can shut it down and stick to IRC. Following are my reasons for the change; New users can't see