[hibernate-dev] Limited beta access to Gitter

[Steve Ebersole]

With regard to permissions: http://blog.gitter.im/the-write-stuff/

When you say its "open" does that mean that *anyone* can join even if 
they do not have GitHub accounts or any association with the GitHub 
repos?


On Tue 17 Dec 2013 07:57:09 AM CST, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> Sounds great.
>
> Question though.  Any idea why they request read *and write*
> permissions to Profile, Followers and Private Email Addresses?
>
> On Tue 17 Dec 2013 05:35:51 AM CST, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>
>> Gitter is a new service aiming to replace IRC, and specifically meant
>> for OSS projects team working with Github.
>> I've got an invitation to participate to the beta, and got it setup
>> for these chatrooms (open to the public):
>>
>> - https://gitter.im/hibernate/hibernate-orm
>> - https://gitter.im/hibernate/hibernate-search
>>
>> I've setup integration from Jenkins and Github so we should get
>> notifications in the chatroom about commits, PRs, reviews and build
>> jobs (totally untested so far)
>>
>> Shall we give it a try?
>>
>> Some features which I'm liking:
>> - it provides a per-repository chatroom and an organization wide
>> chatroom
>> - history is always available, cloud stored and full-text searchable.
>> so we can jump to one device to the next or stay offline and catch up
>> - has native clients for Mac, iOS, Android (but I'm using the webpage
>> which works great and has desktop notifications via Chrome)
>> - no new accounts: you login via GitHub, so your permissions on the
>> chatroom are inherited from your permissions on the respective
>> repositories
>> - people join following just the links above.. very low hassle for
>> newcomers!
>>
>> I'll be there and on IRC as well in the foreseeable future.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sanne
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