Hi All A few weeks ago, in response to the results of the Committer Survey, I setup a trial Hipchat environment to help with Committer Mentoring. (See links to the previous discussion threads below:)
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b8738c3adcb1b7aafd7c90f9b1cbb54500578d8cd392c3b18d635b9@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b64aad3bbaca967cf432adfd62ce68901c95218a8aa59d706aed6bc@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E I really liked the HipChat environment and think that it's a great collaborative tool that also helps build community spirit. So now I'd like to get some feedback :-) First of all I'd like to hear from the committers and mentors who participated to find out what they thought of the HipChat environment, what their general comments are and whether they would like it to be made available on a permanent basis. Secondly I'd like to get some general feedback from everyone to find out if the whole community would also be interested in participating in HipChat environment (e.g. for collaborating on Jiras, or during our Community Days). Other ASF projects have HipChat spaces setup and publish a link that anyone can use to join and we could do the same. The mailing list would still be used for discussions and decisions but if people are working together on a particular task then this could be a good way to speed up the process. I'm thinking particularly about things like the re-factoring and our Jira backlog where bringing together the reporter and the developer could make things move a lot more quickly!) We have another Community Day coming up in a few weeks on 17th September so it could be a good chance to see how it could work in action. What do people think? Thanks Sharan
