+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 >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
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