Re: [infinispan-dev] Replacing IRC
Some of us do a lot of communications / planning related work on
tablets & similar, and I assume that this trend will increase in the
future.
E.g. I regularly catch up on projects activity from the smartphone.
May I suggest the "mobile client" to be considered an hard
requirement? Changing communication channels is disruptive for the
community so better make a future-proof choice.
You all know I'm quite happy with the stuff produced by Atlassian, so
I haven't seen Stride in action yet but I'm confident it will be
great: they aren't making a general purpose chat platform but a
collaboration tool having specifically in mind distributed software
development.
I also tried Gitter in the past, another tool awesomely integrated
with github, therefore also developer oriented. We had to abandon it
as it required all-in permissions on Github, but that was in its early
days (some years ago?) so I guess this might have been resolved by
now.
Thanks for taking these in consideration! Looking forward to see what
others think.
- Sanne
On 16 October 2017 at 10:27, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant(a)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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