[gmx-developers] team communication tools for GROMACS

[Alexey Shvetsov]

IRC can be used together with bots that keep channel history, post git update 
messages, jenkins build messages and so on. Many OSS projects use it as main 
communication platform (linux kernel development, jolla phone, gentoo, many 
other distros...)

В письме от Wednesday 30 September 2015 07:08:39 пользователь Roland Schulz 
написал:
> There are a couple see for example:
> http://beebom.com/2015/04/slack-alternatives-for-team-communication
> http://opensource.com/business/15/9/alternatives-slack-team-chat
> 
> 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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Best Regards,
Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov, PhD
Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics
FSBI Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute,
Leningrad region, Gatchina, Russia
mailto:alexxyum at gmail.com
mailto:alexxy at omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
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