If I had to choose I'd pickup Skype, not because it's M$ (heck), but because it's the one with the easier previous lines edition (when this feature
exist). I also use PidGin with XMMP (Jabber), no previous lines edition.
I read recently that the infra team, which uses HipChat a lot for valuable reasons, was questioned about that by the board, because HipChat is
delivered by Atlassian (only the free, minor version) and history is a concern.
Jacques
PS: I don't put, "Hi....", "Regards" and such things in my email when a conversation has begun, because I kinda use them as the same as instant
messaging. Just with a small delay which allows me to easily follow discussion, without having to look 3 pages above and search in them :/ Threads for
the win!
Le 23/08/2016 à 10:21, Julien NICOLAS a écrit :
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
