Re: Gitter room for Hydra

One limitation might be that gitter has no zakim-like trackbot
http://www.w3.org/2001/12/zakim-irc-bot.html

Le mer. 30 sept. 2015 à 18:01, Michael Petychakis <mpetyx@epu.ntua.gr> a
écrit :

> I think that gitter is super important when developing something open
> source that has an active community.
> I also agree with Markus and Ruben that the mailing list is already
> covering most discussion topics, but IRC was there for anyone wanted to ask
> something on the fly, and maybe something stupid.
>
> This is done now by gitter (with a lot more functionality).
> So, I will agree with Asbjørn that gitter is indeed a nice alternative to
> IRC and maybe to some of the emails.
> If it is not active, we can always switch it off.
>
> Michael.
>
>
> On Sep 30, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@ulsberg.no> wrote:
>
> 2015-09-30 9:29 GMT+02:00 Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>:
>
>> Personally, I haven't understood the attractiveness of gitter (it's
>> probably just me)
>> because it requires me to keep a browser tab open all the time.
>> With IRC / other protocols, I can choose my client.
>>
>
> While I agree an open protocol like IRC give you more choice in clients,
> there's still protocol limits with IRC that are hard to overcome by just
> choosing a good client. Often, such clients cost money (like IRCCloud) and
> are also web based. One problem with IRC is history, for instance.
>
> Having the channel reset on every netsplit or server reboot and having to
> be logged in to the channel to accumulate the history, is a major
> deficiency that is very hard to solve. Also, not having any support for
> markup, makes communication very rudimentary, unengaging and more
> time-consuming than rich hypermedia-supporting interfaces like Slack and
> Gitter.
>
> Since Hydra already exists on Gitter, the integration provided with
> automatic linking and popup views of issues and such make communication
> about everything that exists on GitHub much, much easier. No need to click
> anything and change application and context to see what something is; a
> simple glance within the chat is all that is required. Much more efficient
> and user friendly than what is remotely possible in the most advanced IRC
> clients.
>
> And back to the choice of clients, Gitter has native clients for all major
> platforms:
>
> https://gitter.im/apps
>
> --
> Asbjørn Ulsberg           -=|=-        asbjorn@ulsberg.no
> «He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away»
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