[infinispan-dev] Replacing IRC

[Sanne Grinovero]

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 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
>
> --
> Tristan Tarrant
> Infinispan Lead
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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