Hi Sharan, I like HipChat,, it allow us to communicate with each other, it helps in debugging.
Thanks & Regards -- Deepak Dixit www.hotwaxsystems.com On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > 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/8b8738c3adcb1b7aafd7c90 >>> f9b1cbb54500578d8cd392c3b18d635b9@%3Cdev.ofbiz.apache.org%3E >>> >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5b64aad3bbaca967cf432ad >>> fd62ce68901c95218a8aa59d706aed6bc@%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 >>> >>> >> >> >