[gmx-developers] team communication tools for GROMACS

[Szilárd Páll]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Roland Schulz <roland at utk.edu> wrote:

> There are a couple see for example:
> http://beebom.com/2015/04/slack-alternatives-for-team-communication
>

I've seen this list, unfortunately none of those listed seemed to offer a
great deal more/better functionality than slack - except perhaps HipChat
with 25k history limit, or Pie with no limits _but_  data lock-in due to
lack of export in the free version - , but I have to admit, I only browsed
briefly.


>
> http://opensource.com/business/15/9/alternatives-slack-team-chat
>

I'll check these, I've seen mentioned Mattermost, but as David pointed out
it does not seem to have very broad feature set yet and it requires
self-hosting AFAIK.

--
Szilárd


>
>
> But I don't have any personal experience.
>
> Roland
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> PS: Forgot to mention that OSS - or at least OSS-based tool would be a
>> great benefit, but even if such an option does exist we need to find it
>> (and it should preferably not require self-hosting).
>>
>> --
>> Szilárd
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> IRC has been on my radar and in fact it has been suggested a while ago
>>> during GROMACS dev discussion, but somehow it has never had enough appeal
>>> to get adopted by developers.
>>>
>>> One likely reason is the barrier to start using IRC and that integration
>>> of other productivity tools is quite DYI. AFAIK these are the aspects where
>>> slack - and possibly other similar alternatives win: user-friedliness and
>>> service-integration e.g. Google hangouts for video calls, Gihub,
>>> Dropbox/Box, Github, custom hooks (e.g. we could have jenkins, gerrit
>>> messages posted, etc.).
>>>
>>> Interestingly Slack has won over some communities, a notable example is
>>> WP:
>>> https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
>>> and this post points out some of the differences between the two and why
>>> they've switched to slack.
>>>
>>> I'll wait a bit more, but if there are no competing thoughts I'll set up
>>> slack and see how well it works.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> Szilárd
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Vedran Miletić <rivanvx at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2015-09-29 20:18 GMT+02:00 Szilárd Páll <pall.szilard at gmail.com>:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > We are considering to try using a team collaboration tool for GROMACS
>>>> > development-related communication (perhaps user hangout room too?).
>>>> >
>>>> > As I have some experience with slack.com (not much, though), so I
>>>> was about
>>>> > to go ahead and create a channel, but noticed that it has a slightly
>>>> > inconvenient restriction: max 10k messages kept in the history.
>>>> >
>>>> > So I thought I'd ask:
>>>> > - does anybody have experience with slack (either good or bad)?
>>>> > - does anybody know anything better?
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> How about IRC on freenode.net?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Vedran
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Vedran Miletić
>>>> http://vedranmileti.ch/
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