[infinispan-dev] Replacing IRC

[Sebastian Laskawiec]

+1 to Slack. All JUG communities I know are using it. It is also worth to
mention that Slack was also adopted by Kubernetes folks.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:17 PM Katia Aresti <karesti at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm a strong adopter of slack and I really like it. I've used it since it
> came out with Duchess (we started with an internal use for the team, and we
> have a community slack now with more that 150 people there that is little
> by little replacing our google group). I've use it in different
> communities, startups and big company client's teams. As far as I know,
> other open-source projects have already adopted it successfully.
> What is cool about it is that joining any team and switching from one team
> to another is very easy. If people want to join the community, and they are
> already using slack, is very easy.
>
> I agree with Sanne, being able to use it from the smartphone is important
> and could be considered as a high requirement. I use slack on my phone, and
> it helps quit a lot. Most of the time I use it from my laptop, but there
> are cases where mobile has really helped us (specially in Duchess France
> slack). I use the native slack client on my mac and works very well.
>
> I haven't tested Stride or Gitter.
>
> Katia
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> HipChat is being replaced by Stride.
>> I have dimissed HipChat in the past because it did not allow for a
>> single account to be shared across multiple groups. I believe this will
>> be solved by Stride.
>>
>> Tristan
>>
>> On 10/16/17 11:16 AM, Wolf Fink wrote:
>> > Why not use Hipchat as EAP/Wildfly to prevent from too many different
>> > platforms ?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant at redhat.com
>> > <mailto:ttarrant at redhat.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Dear all,
>> >
>> >     last week we discussed the possibility of abandoning IRC in favour
>> of a
>> >     more modern alternative.
>> >
>> >     Hard requirements:
>> >     - free (as in beer)
>> >     - hosted (we don't want to maintain it ourselves)
>> >     - multi-platform client: native (Linux, MacOS, Windows), browser
>> >     - persistent logs
>> >     - distinction between channel operators and normal users
>> >     - guest access (without the need for registration)
>> >     - integration with Jira for issue lookup
>> >     - integration with GitHub for PR lookup
>> >     - IRC bridge (so that users can connect with an IRC client)
>> >     - ability to export data in case we want to move somewhere else
>> >     - on-the-fly room creation for mini-teams
>> >
>> >     Optionals:
>> >     - Free (as in freedom)
>> >     - offline notifications (i.e. see if I was notified while away)
>> >     - mobile client: Android and iOS
>> >     - proper native client (as most Electron clients are quite fat)
>> >     - chat logs accessible without a client (it is acceptable if this is
>> >     achieved via a bot)
>> >     - integration with Jenkins for CI status
>> >     - XMPP bridge (so that users can connect with an XMPP client)
>> >
>> >     Not needed:
>> >     - file sharing, audio/video
>> >
>> >     Here is a list of candidates:
>> >     - IRC (i.e. no change)
>> >     - Slack
>> >     - Stride (Atlassian's upcoming replacement for HipChat)
>> >     - Matrix (Matrix.org, unfortunately with funding issues)
>> >     - Gitter
>> >     - Discord
>> >     - Rocket.chat (unfortunately hosting is paid)
>> >
>> >     If you have any other suggestions/recommendations, they are more
>> than
>> >     welcome.
>> >
>> >     Tristan
>> >
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>> >     Tristan Tarrant
>> >     Infinispan Lead
>> >     JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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