I am exactly in Tim's situation. My situation has changed so that I no longer care about private repositories.
Going through the gitter login process I did not have to pass any page with which I was uncomfortable. This may be different now that I'm not the free rather than micro plan however. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Tim Lahey <[email protected]> wrote: > +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 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6KEYaEH52MF_uR8saP0d-asxrXbuT%3D5yPGs9UAwBF%3D5Mg% >> 40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/sympy/62B47B9A-8530-4F30-86F8-07EAB8288913%40gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAJ8oX-EH%3DDPqOsvW_oYbU1FNDSO8Tt%2B8%2BJD8_7Hu3JVnBZ7Ffw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
