How do I prevent people from contacting me via this? On 6 May 2015 at 03:33, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Legoktm wrote: > >On 05/04/2015 08:07 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > >> * You can now chat with other users > >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Conpherence> in Phabricator. [1] > >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392> > > > >Uh, why? Where was this actually discussed with more than 4 people? We > >already have IRC and mailing lists, so why do we need yet another > >communication system? Are we going to be enabling Phriction next? > > > >Please turn it off. > > I briefly played around with Conpherence yesterday. I'm not sure I'd call > it chat software and I'm not sure it's intended as such. It felt like > forum software, from what I can tell. > > Initial pain points/oddities: > > * the conversations/threads don't auto-refresh > * every message triggers a separate e-mail notification by default > * messages can include fancier formatting, but it wasn't apparent how to > preview a message before sending > > I'm inclined to agree that e-mail and IRC (and Phabricator's Maniphest > with its quoting functionality and the wikis and the mailing lists and...) > are sufficient for Wikimedia development. That said, I can understand the > view of this being just another tool and, y'know, "if you don't like it, > don't use it" and all that. I've re-opened the discussion at > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392> as I think whether we enable > Conpherence needs further thought and consideration. > > MZMcBride > > P.S. I'm also lightly reminded of Zawinski's law about every program > expanding in size until it includes e-mail. :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l