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Re: Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

#23
The upside of IRC is not having to have so many different applications to chat with all the different people.

If I can use XChat for this, that would be bad-ass. Also, one important feature I think would be crucial is integrating with Google Chat (if you can). All developers use IRC or HipChat or Kato but then I have to deal with the buggers in the rest of my company that like to use GChat!

Re: Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

#24
post #9

Do you know if something similar exists for mailing lists? ie for every github project you get a project mailing list to discuss development on a higher level than individual bug reports.

something like this http://ost.io/?

More than year ago I had idea of creating mailing list hosted in Git itself. Made some prototype - https://github.com/communities/gitcommunities.com.

Re: Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

#25
post #23

The upside of IRC is not having to have so many different applications to chat with all the different people. If I can use XChat for this, that would be bad-ass. Also, one important feature I think would be crucial is integrating with Google Chat (if you can). All developers use IRC or HipChat or Kato but then I have to deal with the buggers in the rest of my company that like to use GChat!

we're busy working on IRC integration right now!

Re: Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

#27
post #23

The upside of IRC is not having to have so many different applications to chat with all the different people. If I can use XChat for this, that would be bad-ass. Also, one important feature I think would be crucial is integrating with Google Chat (if you can). All developers use IRC or HipChat or Kato but then I have to deal with the buggers in the rest of my company that like to use GChat!

we're busy working on IRC integration right now!

Awesome, I definitely like this concept a lot and the other commenter's reply about a mailing list would go very well with this concept.

Re: Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

#29
post #9

Do you know if something similar exists for mailing lists? ie for every github project you get a project mailing list to discuss development on a higher level than individual bug reports.

something like this http://ost.io/ ? More than year ago I had idea of creating mailing list hosted in Git itself. Made some prototype - https://github.com/communities/gitcommunities.com .

Sounds interesting. I'll have a look at this. Thanks!

Re: Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

#30
post #9

Do you know if something similar exists for mailing lists? ie for every github project you get a project mailing list to discuss development on a higher level than individual bug reports.

So something a little more formal than chat?

With longer messages and asynchronous, so basically email. It seems to me that mailing lists solve a different problem than chat or bug trackers. They allow to discuss about the project itself, which is necessary if you have > 1 main dev. That's something that sourceforge did and github does not, probably by design. Maybe something like discourse could work for that.
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