For the NetBeans community we had been using IRC, but then setup Slack, and it has seen an uptick over IRC which per logging and notifications had been harder to support and stay connected. We setup a sign up bot at https://netbeans.signup.team, and we also have a chat room hooked/bridged to our IRC channel, so we service both as a collective; good on mobiles too. We have as an item to talk to Slack about OSS and limits/restrictions.
We don't intend it to replace mailing lists, Jira, nor the wiki, but look at it as dynamic chats and community building allowing to have hack, help, or real time hang time sessions. We didn't know about the Apache HipChat, but I must confess I much prefer Slack having used both during my day job. Wade On Nov 3, 2016 10:50 AM, "Marvin Humphrey" <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:23 PM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Infra recently started leveraging hipchat. A few PMCs have made use of > > it. I was wondering, would it be beneficial to anyone if we setup an > > incubator room in hipchat? > > How about just promoting the #asf IRC channel on freenode.net? > > https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#asf > > Better for podling contributors to make connections to the wider ASF > rather than to limit themselves to the current incubator, and the #asf > channel is already well established. > > We could even embed the Kiwi IRC client in an iframe on the Incubator > website, at say http://incubator.apache.org/chat alongside guidance > documenting how we expect real-time communications to be used. > > <iframe src="https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#asf"; > style="border:0; width:100%; height:450px;"></iframe> > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
