+1 to gitter. I am not on IRC anymore, since it's really inconvenient, given that I frequently switch several computers. Gitter works perfectly for me. I really wished they fixed account permission issue together with github. I decided to trust them for now.
Ondrej On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Harsh Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > +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. > > > > -- > Harsh > > -- > 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/CADN8iuowtYnVrK3OKC2_Cd67%2BN7S7TVt_X-ofy6Z14a0Eb%2BJDw%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. 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