[gmx-developers] team communication tools for GROMACS

[Szilárd Páll]

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).

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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
>>
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>> Vedran Miletić
>> http://vedranmileti.ch/
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