Personally I'd give gitter a shot. There're Apache projects use it already [1][2].
We also have IRC #zookeeper, there are quite a few folks there but the channel is really quite, and IRC has some problems that gitter (and other "modern" tools) has addressed. [1] https://gitter.im/apacheignite/ignite [2] https://gitter.im/apache/taverna On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Abraham Fine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello- > > I believe having a healthy chat platform could be great for the > community and increase engagement for both developers and users. > > Currently ZooKeeper has an IRC channel on freenode but it does not seem > to be heavily used right now. I think this may be related to IRC's > shortcomings, primarily the difficulty in keeping state between chat > sessions and a high barrier to entry for new users. > > So I think it may be valuable for us to explore some other options. > > Slack (https://slack.com) seems to be the popular choice these days but > it does not natively support open signups (being able to just click a > link on a web page and join a room rather that getting an invitation > beforehand) without some hacky tools (https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) > and the free tier has a limited search history. > > Gitter (https://gitter.im) is also popular for open source projects and > ties auth to GitHub. It is free with unlimited users and message > history. > > Mattermost (https://about.mattermost.com) appears to be a great open > source solution that we would need to self host. It has desktop and > mobile clients that should make using it easy. > > There are also a couple of solutions on top of IRC such as > http://ircv3.net and https://www.irccloud.com but I am not very familiar > with them. > > It would be great to hear what everyone thinks. Are things fine as they > are right now or is it worth exploring another chat solution? > > Thanks, > Abe > -- Cheers Michael.
