Legoktm wrote: >On 05/04/2015 08:07 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: >> * You can now chat with other users >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Conpherence> in Phabricator. [1] >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392> > >Uh, why? Where was this actually discussed with more than 4 people? We >already have IRC and mailing lists, so why do we need yet another >communication system? Are we going to be enabling Phriction next? > >Please turn it off.
I briefly played around with Conpherence yesterday. I'm not sure I'd call it chat software and I'm not sure it's intended as such. It felt like forum software, from what I can tell. Initial pain points/oddities: * the conversations/threads don't auto-refresh * every message triggers a separate e-mail notification by default * messages can include fancier formatting, but it wasn't apparent how to preview a message before sending I'm inclined to agree that e-mail and IRC (and Phabricator's Maniphest with its quoting functionality and the wikis and the mailing lists and...) are sufficient for Wikimedia development. That said, I can understand the view of this being just another tool and, y'know, "if you don't like it, don't use it" and all that. I've re-opened the discussion at <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392> as I think whether we enable Conpherence needs further thought and consideration. MZMcBride P.S. I'm also lightly reminded of Zawinski's law about every program expanding in size until it includes e-mail. :-) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
