After having used both (Hipchat for my consultancy, Gitter for some open source projects), I'd have to say I strongly prefer Gitter due to both the UI as well as the lower barrier to entry for users. Users can log in to Gitter via GitHub or Twitter (possibly more accounts now). The web interface works fine, and there's a desktop and mobile version (similar to Slack and Hipchat in that regard). Gitter is also more oriented towards programmers than Hipchat. For example, Gitter automatically expands out Gists and links PRs and issues (not sure if that integrates with JIRA).
On 18 July 2017 at 08:54, Marshall Schor <m...@schor.com> wrote: > what's the diff between gitter and hipchat? > > Google search seems to maybe be saying hipchat is better for many. > > We have already Hipchat available, I think. (We've added it to our > project, > Apache UIMA). > > -Marshall Schor > > > On 7/17/2017 10:20 PM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > Gitter is public. And Slack is a paid service (free version has a lot of > > limits), so it's not very feasible for public chats without someone > funding > > it. Gitter, however, is free for all GitHub projects (and Gitlab too I > > think?) and is even open source now that Gitlab owns them. > > > > On 17 July 2017 at 21:13, Tungathurthi, Chandra Kiran Bharadwaj < > > chandra.tungathur...@rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > > > >> Hey actually, a slack channel would fit right in. Any specific reason to > >> choose gitter over slack ? @matt > >> > >> thanks & regards, > >> Chandra > >> > >> > >> From: Gary Gregory > >> Sent: Tuesday, 18 July, 07:08 > >> Subject: Re: Desire for a Gitter channel? > >> To: Log4J Users List > >> > >> So, like a private Slack? Bah, why not, as long as we make sure to > >> document any and all decisions on the ML, it could be OK. Gary On Mon, > Jul > >> 17, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > https://gitter.im/apache/home > >>>> We can request a log4j Gitter channel for realtime chat. This could be > >>> handy for quick questions and other things that waiting on Stack > Overflow > >>> or mailing list posts isn't as appropriate for. > > This would be very > >> different from the ASF Slack as it is open to everyone. > > Also, I find > >> chat rooms a bit easier to reply to while at work than > browsing Stack > >> Overflow. ;) > > -- > Matt Sicker > > >> > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
