On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Ian Dees <ian.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Slack offers an irc gateway if you'd prefer to connect to slack from your > irc client. Just sign up for the slack team and look in the "integrations" > section for information about how to connect your irc client. > Our software consultancy is using Slack for communications both internally and with the client (who adopted it internally at our suggestion). In general it s very nice. 1) History evaporates quickly ... unless you have a paid account. This may be good for Corps with (anti)retention policies, but could be a problem for a FLOSS/OpenData project. 2) The Xmpp / Jabber gateway works with Pidgin etc, but is buggy and inconsistent in handling of advanced/new features (re-edited messages don't re-send; multi-user private chat invites don't, emoji as :smiley-cat:, display literal as data text with `markdown` only, ...) mapping down to traditional and back. I expect the IRC gateway will be similar. The gateway should not re seen as a a panacea; try it before you jump hard there! I do concur with sentiment of preferring to base open development on open infrastructure. But if the freemium product provides sufficiently better capability, it is not wrong to use it to enable the project. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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