> The SMW IRC chat seems pretty dead these days (albeit not completely).
> I tend to pretty often have quick questions I that would be very
> suitable for a chat (need a quick answer, or throwing some questions
> back and forth, making the mailing list too slow), and find that the IRC
> chat is too silent to be of much use (I got some good answers sometimes,
> but it is not "reliable").
> A lot of projects seem to get very good use of some of the more modern
> chat solutions like slack, or gitter (We actually even put up a gitter
> chat for SMW at https://gitter.im/SemanticMediaWiki ... ).
> What are people"s opinions ... would it be reasonable to push for using
> some such solution more (e.g. the gitter chat)?
I don't understand how changing the chat system would create more traffic.
What you are proposing appears to me to be an attempt of a technical solution
for a social problem. IRC my not be the most modern system, but there are web
frontends available and I don't think that more people would come to chat about
SMW if only the interface was more shiny. And multiplying the communication
channels might even be counterproductive as it spreads the people available for
conversation over even more places. As you noted, there already is (or was?) an
SMW chat on Gitter that apparently did not get traction.
Finally, if you don't ask questions because the channel seems so quiet (and
other people do the same) then it is probably not a surprise if the channel
stays quiet. Or, in other words, start using the existing channel and maybe
stay around a while to answer other people's questions, and we might see some
more traffic.
Just my 2 cents.
Stephan
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