+1 to Gitter.
It's unfortunate that GitHub doesn't have support for more restricted
scopes, but since I dropped my private repos (after I finished my
thesis), I'm fine with Gitter. I like that it's persistent. It makes it
more likely that people could get help, assuming that people are okay
with Gitter's permissions.
Thanks,
Tim.
On 24 Feb 2014, at 20:21, Aaron Meurer wrote:
Now that Google Summer of Code is under way, I'd like to get the
community's opinion again on using Gitter
(https://gitter.im/sympy/sympy).
Last time, some people were concerned about the OAuth scope requested
by Gitter. This is explained at
https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authenticating-with-GitHub.
I personally think Gitter is great. It's free, persistant (you don't
have to be online to see messages), and the developers are friendly.
It also has cool features that integrate with GitHub.
Previously we have used IRC, and our channel is still active. But the
channel is not very active. You can see from the logs
(http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_logs/sympy) that quite a few
people come to the channel with questions, but no one is there to
answer them. With Gitter, someone could answer the question later on.
Anyway, I'd like to know if the community supports making Gitter the
"official" chat room of SymPy (and if no, do you have any better
alternatives?). If so, then I will add links to the home page and the
GSoC info page, and also to the /topic of #sympy.
If we do this, I'd appreciate it if people could idle in the channel,
and provide support to people, especially the prospective GSoC
students. If you use Mac OS X, you can get their Mac app
(https://gitter.im/apps), and go to the Notification settings in
System Preferences and change the notifications for Gitter to alert
instead of badge, so that they stay on your screen. There is also a
menubar icon that badges.
Getting help in IRC (mostly from Ondrej) made a huge difference for me
when I started with SymPy, especially when it came to git issues
(which everyone has). So I think it's really important to provide that
to our students.
Aaron Meurer
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