What do folks use for synchronous discussion/drive-by questions? #13
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We actually don't have mailing lists for Arbor dev. Our main method of communication is a Slack channel, to which we invite everyone who requests access. We use this for both synchronous and asynchronous communication. Not too happy with Slack either, for the reasons you list, plus, we're freeriding, so history is limited. This is seen as a feature or a bug, depending on who you ask ;) Generally I'm a fan of Gitter, because even though Github is also not open source, it's quite open and people are virtually guaranteed to have an account already, and as you point out, Gitter itself is in good hands and accessible with Matrix clients. As this is our main communication channel, both for the core team and with our partners, it's quite important :) We've opened the Discussions section on our Github repo a few months ago, as that has an even lower barrier to entry. A more synchronous channel can always be set up is need be is our idea. |
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Hmm. Gitter sounds interesting! Does it allow users to add attachments (eg source code)?
I am currently looking for something for my own project. I've been contemplating SourceForge Discussion Groups but haven’t taken the plunge because I suspect there may be better options out there these days.
Stewart Heitmann
Brain Dynamics Toolbox
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It uses GitHub markdown, so I think you paste your source code as you would on GitHub in an issue etc. and it formats it properly. I don't think it does uploads at the moment. Matrix/Element does, so one would expect Gitter to gain that functionality soon too now that they're part of the same eco system. For the moment, on Gitter, you have to use a GitHub gist or a paste server and something like imgur for screenshots/images. Their full documentation is here. |
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Lovely! I’ll check it out. Thank you Ankur.
- Stewart
… On 10 Mar 2021, at 8:38 pm, Ankur Sinha ***@***.***> wrote:
Hmm. Gitter sounds interesting! Does it allow users to add attachments (eg source code)?
It uses GitHub markdown <https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax>, so I think you paste your source code as you would on GitHub in an issue etc. and it formats it properly. I don't think it does uploads at the moment. Matrix/Element does, so one would expect Gitter to gain that functionality soon too now that they're part of the same eco system. For the moment, on Gitter, you have to use a GitHub gist <https://gist.github.com/> or a paste server <https://paste.fedoraproject.org/> and something like imgur <x-msg://2/imgur.com> for screenshots/images.
Their full documentation is here <https://gitlab.com/gitterHQ/webapp/tree/develop/docs#documentation>.
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I've just noticed that Gitter rooms are already bridged to Matrix. So, for example, this is the Gitter room for Brian2, and it has a link to use it over Matrix. You can use either or even Gitter IRC, and they're all bridged. |
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I know we all have mailing lists and forums for our software communities, but what do people use for synchronous discussions or one-time drive-by queries where subscribing to a mailing list or registering at a forum would be perhaps considered overkill?
Off the top of my head, the platform needs to be:
In the past I've leaned towards Gitter because of its scalability and integration with GitHub, but I'm now looking at Matrix/Element which we're using more and more in the Fedora community (with plans to migrate off IRC to matrix permanently in the future). Gitter has been bought out by Element who own and develop Matrix recently also.
I guess a related question is: how important is such a communication channel?
I think it's quite important, even if they're not super active in our smaller software communities. We don't have these for NeuroML/OSB yet, but we do have them for NeuroFedora where we see quite a bit of activity.
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