Re: [orion-dev] Irc?

["Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Apr 2015, at 16:52, Mike Wilson wrote:

> Max, the fix for this is to make sure that we are actually watching 
> IRC
> appropriately. I'll go kick the people who work for me who are working 
> on
> Eclipse/Orion stuff. :-)

woohoo and agreed ;)

btw. I found this 
http://www.pilgrimbreak.com/how-to-access-slack-with-command-line-irc-client-irssi/ 
to let
irc users connect to your slack
and https://sameroom.io/blog/mirror-freenode-channels-in-slack/ which 
could let you guys hook freenode room
into your slack setup but the community could still just connect on 
friend.

Everyone wins ;)

/max

> McQ.
>
>
>
> From:	"Max Rydahl Andersen" <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To:	"Orion developer discussions" <orion-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:	orion-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date:	2015/04/23 10:47
> 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)
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