[hibernate-dev] Chat migration - D minus 115 until the death of HipChat
Yoann Rodiere
yoann at hibernate.org
Fri Nov 9 09:46:29 EST 2018
Hi,
TL;DR: I created the Gitter rooms. Let's all go there for a few days, at
least to try it?
*Connecting*
Obviously you can just connect to https://gitter.im/ and use the browser.
You can sign in with your Github, Gitlab or Twitter account.
There are also desktop/mobile applications. https://gitter.im/apps
They only provide .deb packages, though, and I wasn't able to convert them
easily using alien (I didn't try very hard). There is a snap out there, but
it's an old version that isn't allow to use the Gitter APIs anymore.
If you prefer to use IRC, they apparently provide a bridge. I don't know
what it's worth, but you can always give it a try: see
https://irc.gitter.im/ .
*What's next?*
Let's try to use it for a few days, see if everyone is comfortable with it?
Let's see if there isn't any blocker for anyone, and if the news from other
projects (such as WildFly moving to Slack) don't make use change our minds.
Then if everyone is okay with it, we can finalize everything:
- Invite external people to our rooms (I didn't invite anyone except our
own team)
- Advertise Gitter as our main chat platform:
- On our websites
- On IRC (we should at least mention it in the "message of the day")
- On the hibernate-announce mailing list
- In the REAME file of our projects through a badge: [](
https://gitter.im/hibernate/hibernate-room-id
?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge)
- Close the HipChat rooms somehow.
*Available rooms*
For each of our main projects, I created one room bound to the GitHub
repository for users, and *one *-dev room for our own use*.
I also created rooms based on what I could see in HipChat (branding, ...).
You can find a list of all rooms here: https://gitter.im/hibernate/home
I already added people according to which room they were member of in
HipChat, but I may have missed some. Please check which room you are
subscribed to.
*Settings*
You can configure how often you want to be notified for each room: go to
the room, click on the "settings" button next to your avatar on the top
right, then "Notifications".
In this same popup, you have the option of setting general defaults.
Also, a dark theme is available: click on your avatar on the top right,
then "Toggle Dark Theme".
That's pretty much it.
*Configuring your rooms*
I configured the main rooms to receive Github notifications on the
"activity tab" to the right, as well as Jenkins notifications for the
"master" and "PR" job (when I found it). Feel free to add more integration
if you want to.
How to add a Jenkins integration:
- If your room doesn't have a Jenkins integration yet (most have):
- Go to the room on Gitter
- Click on the "settings" button next to your avatar on the top
right, then "Integrations".
- Select "Jenkins"
- Select the events you want to be notified of
- Copy the webhook URL near the bottom
- Create new credentials on Jenkins:
http://ci.hibernate.org/credentials/store/system/domain/_/newCredentials
- In the "Kind" field, select "Secret text"
- Leave the "Scope" to "Global"
- In the "Secret" field, paste the webhook URL
- In the "ID" field, put "gitter-webhook-url-<ID of your room>"
- In the "description" field, put "Gitter webhook URL for the <ID
of your room> room"
- Click "OK"
- For each Jenkins job:
- On the job page in Jenkins, click "Configure"
- Select the "Job Notifications" tab near the top
- Click "Add endpoint"
- Leave the format to "JSON" and the protocol to "HTTP"
- Set "URL Source" to "Credentials Store"
- In the "URL" box, select the entry corresponding to your room,
which should normally appear as "Gitter webhook URL for the <ID of
your room> room"
- Click "Save"
Hibernate NoORM Team
yoann at hibernate.org
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 11:40, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org> wrote:
> I think all day-to-day users of our chat voted. Here are the results:
>
> IRC: 4 Yes, 5 "if need be", 6 no.
> Slack: 5 Yes, 3 "if need be", 7 no
> Zulip: 5 Yes, 3 "if need be", 7 no
> Gitter: 10 Yes, 1 "if need be", 4 no
>
> It seems Gitter won. That's the only option with more "Yes" than "No"...
> It's got the most "Yes" (even counting "if need be"), and perhaps more
> importantly it's got the least amount of "no".
>
> To those who voted no: if you have specific concerns about Gitter, could
> you please mention them here? Maybe we can find solutions to some of the
> problems.
>
> I'll look into moving the Hibernate Search chat to Gitter and will report
> back on this thread.
>
> Yoann Rodière
> Hibernate NoORM Team
> yoann at hibernate.org
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 08:25, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org> wrote:
>
>> Not everyone voted, far from it; we're missing votes from Gail,
>> Guillaume, Fabio, Chris, Davide, Emmanuel, Koen. So no, no consensus yet.
>>
>> I sent an email to them off-list, perhaps they didn't see this thread.
>>
>> Provisional results are as follows:
>>
>> IRC: 2 Yes, 3 "if need be", 3 no
>> Slack: 2 Yes, 2 "if need be", 4 no
>> Zulip: 2 Yes, 3 "if need be", 3 no
>> Gitter: 6 Yes, 0 "if need be", 2 no
>>
>> So Gitter seems on the verge of winning, but apparently some people are
>> categorically against it, so I'd say we'll have to give them a chance to
>> explain why. I'll wait for everyone to answer, though, since they could
>> completely change the results.
>>
>> Yoann Rodière
>> Hibernate NoORM Team
>> yoann at hibernate.org
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 at 13:35, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Any consensus on this yet?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:21 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for starting this!
>>>>
>>>> The choice of IRC is a bit special on the list as we never intended it
>>>> to be killed: it has been historically important and we should
>>>> maintain some level of reachability on it. So voting for the "IRC"
>>>> choice just means a preference to not use anything else on top of it,
>>>> while alternatively we'' be using X on top of IRC, albeit with a
>>>> preference to use X for team conversations.
>>>>
>>>> Also good to remind: please try to be on IRC as well occasionally as
>>>> many in the OSS community we integrate with will reach out there.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Sanne
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 09:46, Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > 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-a405-467d961336f7
>>>> > [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 at hibernate.org
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