Hi Sharan,
When you start Hipchat, you opened an OFBiz room and I was loving it.
Push Hipchat in the startup app even it's not a Libre Software and
always aware on what's happen on this OFBiz community window. I was the
feeling to be closer to the OFBiz community.
Then, people decided that that window is not good and go back on email
"boring" system. In this community context, it's more difficult to use
email for informal discussion.
So for me, HipChat is one more app for instant messaging. I'm not sure
that is better than Skype or other proprietary software. Why not to
decide to use jabber server that is more in free software way ?
Since the OFBiz room was closed, Hipchat is no more in my startup app.
You have to send me an email to ask me to open Hipchat.
In summary, Hipchat or Skype as you wish, I don't mind.
Julien.
On 22/08/2016 10:42, Sharan Foga wrote:
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
