Re: [orion-dev] Irc?

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to be clear, Max: The Orion project
is not currently using Slack and there is no official Orion project slack
instance you can join to evaluate activity levels. It has been floated
as a possibility that is being considered, but it is not the current reality.
Many of our committers are using Slack already for commercial products,
are finding it useful, and are interested in exploring whether it could
be used effectively in an open source project. But as McQ said the current
instant chat mechanism is #eclipse-orion on Freenode, which is not being
heavily used but it is available as a channel to talk to committers.

John



From:      
 "Max Rydahl Andersen"
<manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Orion developer
discussions" <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:      
 orion-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 04/23/2015 10:47 AM
Subject:    
   Re: [orion-dev]
Irc?
Sent by:    
   orion-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

---

I'm now in slack - can't join anything and i'm now
forced to use yet 
another browser tab,
with different history, different notifications, different mechanics 
from everything else.

I personally don't like using anything else but IRC since it is so 
omnipresent/omniavailable.

...but ignoring that - where in Slack do I go to see if slack is more 
active than irc ?

/max


> It surprises me a little that we're so quick to say that it's not
a 
> useful
> open source tool. Is there data to back that up? I'm sure there's
data 
> to
> suggest IRC works ( however not for us ) Is that enough for us to
just
> discount a new evolving social technology that creative people are
> flocking
> to? I think that's what's bothering me most of all about this thread,
> and
> disheartening me :(
>
> I surfed a little and read this ...
>
> https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
>
> Why couldn't we at least try it? If it fails, nothing is lost?  If
we 
> see
> more dialogue, then we win? Is it not that simple?
>
> I don't know whether or not Slack would be a useful open source tool,
> but
> in my opinion if it aids communication, then of course it would be
a 
> useful
> tool.
>
> Anton
>
>
>
>
> From:       Mike Milinkovich <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> To:         orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Date:       2015/04/23 09:35 AM
>
> Subject:    Re: [orion-dev] Irc?
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 23/04/2015 9:25 AM, Steve Northover wrote:
>    Slack is being used successfully by small teams for distributed
>    development.  Many comitters for Orion are there.
 It makes sense 
> to
>    connect with people there (if possible).
>
> That may be true within a single company. But if the conversations
> that
> happen there are not open to all interested parties, and transparent
> to
> everyone then it is not a useful open source tool.
>
> --
> Mike Milinkovich
> mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
> +1.613.220.3223 (mobile)
> _______________________________________________
> orion-dev mailing list
> orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or 
> unsubscribe
> from this list, visit
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/orion-dev
> _______________________________________________
> orion-dev mailing list
> orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or 
> unsubscribe from this list, visit
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/orion-dev


/max
http://about.me/maxandersen
_______________________________________________
orion-dev mailing list
orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe
from this list, visit
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/orion-dev