+1 for gitter.

On 25 February 2014 08:16, Matthew Rocklin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>
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