16 Oct
2015
16 Oct
'15
3:21 p.m.
Interestingly Skype just announced the following yesterday which is great for communities
(and would be nice for us too):
http://blogs.skype.com/2015/10/15/a-new-easier-way-to-start-a-skype-convers…
Thanks
-Vincent
On 16 Oct 2015 at 11:56:05, Eduard Moraru
(enygma2002@gmail.com(mailto:enygma2002@gmail.com)) wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:31 PM, vincent(a)massol.net
wrote:
Of course we also need to think about our IRC bot
which has several nice
features we need to keep. An especially important one IMO is the ability to
have our logs archived on xwiki.org. Of course the gitter integrations
are very easy to develop but it would still need to be done.
Note that there’s a IRC bridge too that allows to continue using one’s own
IRC client: https://irc.gitter.im/
This applies for our IRC bot as well, as it is, as long as we create a
github user for it to use while connecting to gitter's IRC bridge.
Thanks,
Eduard
Thanks
-Vincent
On 16 Oct 2015 at 11:07:12, vincent(a)massol.net (vincent(a)massol.net(mailto:
vincent(a)massol.net)) wrote:
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http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs One issue I’ve just realized is that Gitter
requires to log in with a
github account (it does make it easy to create one from
the web site). It
would have been nicer to be to able to have social logins or even some
anonymous mode which is what IRC offers.
Is this a blocker/no go?
Thanks
-Vincent
On 16 Oct 2015 at 10:33:50, vincent(a)massol.net (vincent(a)massol.net
(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
> Ok so here’s more info (as I discover it):
>
> - https://gitter.im/xwiki/public this open to everyone to join
> - https://gitter.im/xwiki is private to all members of the xwiki org
in
github, acting like a room for xwiki committers
> - https://gitter.im/xwiki-contrib is private
to all members of the
xwiki-contrib org in github, acting like a room for
xwiki-contrib committers
>
> Thus we should use the https://gitter.im/xwiki/public room as much as
possible since that’s the public one.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On 16 Oct 2015 at 10:10:42, vincent(a)massol.net (vincent(a)massol.net
(mailto:vincent@massol.net)) wrote:
>
> > Ok for those interested to try it out, Thomas created the “xwiki”
chat
room and 4F2E4A2E created the “xwiki-contrib” one (they’re linked to
the github organizations):
> >
> > - https://gitter.im/xwiki
> > - https://gitter.im/xwiki-contrib
> >
> > We’ll see if we need to close one. ATM it’s just a test.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> > On 16 Oct 2015 at 09:56:23, Thomas Mortagne (
thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com(mailto:thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com)) wrote:
> >
> > > At least the good thing for once is that they have a Linux desktop
> > > support and it works well.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:48 AM, vincent(a)massol.net wrote:
> > > > Hi devs,
> > > >
> > > > I feel it would help the XWiki project if we had some chat
infrastructure more user-friendly than IRC channel (which is currently
mostly used by the xwiki developers and a few power contributors/users). I
think it would help spread xwiki more and be more friendly to our community
(btw the same should be done for the mailing list by moving the user
mailing list to a forum but that’s for another thread).
> > > >
> > > > I wonder if you guys would be interested to moving to another
tool such as Gitter.im: https://gitter.im/
> > > >
> > > > It seems to be nice for open communities. Nicer than Slack
anyway (I’ve tried Slack for another community I’m in and we quickly
reached the 10K messages and it’s not nice to have this red reminder
message and you loose some messages that you can’t see - See
http://blog.freecodecamp.com/2015/06/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-r…
).
> > > >
> > > > Of course another strategy would be to ask a company to host a
tool for us, such as http://www.mattermost.org/ but setting it up and
maintaining it has a price and we’d need to convince some company like
XWiki SAS to do that and I’m not sure it’s worth it.
> > > >
> > > > Let me know what you think and if you’re ok to try it, I’ll set
up an org on gitter so that we can make an experiment and try it out.
> >
>
> > > Thanks
> > > -Vincent
>