Hi, TL;DR: please vote here if you don't want to end up having to use a chat tool you don't like: https://doodle.com/poll/h6scc9bsh6a4ymre HipChat Cloud will stop working on February 15th, 2019 [1]. We need to choose an alternative before we have our back against the wall, so I'll try to resurrect the conversation. As a reminder, Stride is no longer an option: Atlassian cancelled the project, and encourages users to migrate to Slack. The discussed options so far were: - *Moving back to IRC*. Aye: ?; nay: ? Pros: simple as hell. Cons: basic as hell; we won't keep the chat history. - *Migrating to Slack* [6], as suggested by Atlassian [2]. Aye: Christian B; Nay: ? Pros: we will keep the chat history (I think). Cons: not open-source; desktop client consumes a lot of resources. - *Migrating to Zulip* [3]. Aye: Emmanuel, Yoann. Nay: Guillaume (kind of). Pros: Advanced conversation management thanks to the "topics" feature. Cons: Complex to use because of the "topics" feature; we won't keep the chat history (1). - *Migrating to Gitter* [5] (we'll create different rooms, probably). Aye: ?, Nay: ? Pros: Users seem to actually go there, so we could have our "live support" rooms next to our "internal discussion" rooms. Cons: not open-source; we won't keep the chat history (1). I created a poll based on the discussion we had on the thread "[hibernate-dev] Stride". I think everyone had the time to suggest another option. Please vote here and now, or remain silent forever ;): https://doodle.com/poll/h6scc9bsh6a4ymre I'd suggest the following rules: if there's a single clear winner (a platform that everyone would be happy with), we'll pick that one. If there are multiple clear winners, whoever does the migration work will pick what's easier to set up (taking into account the various integrations). Otherwise, back to discussing it on this thread... (1) There seems to be some work in progress on a migration tool from HipChat to Zulip, but it doesn't seem to be ready yet [4] [1] https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack/faq#faq-da2b66a1-53d3-4c4e-a... [2] https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack/migration [3] https://hibernate.zulipchat.com/ [4] https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/10647 [5] https://gitter.im/hibernate/hibernate-orm [6] https://slackdemo.com/ Yoann Rodière Hibernate NoORM Team yoann(a)hibernate.org