I am not asking about a "supart". Think about topics that we cross post to hibernate-dev and willdfly-dev or hibernate-dev and infinispan-dev... so the discussion *simultaneously* spans multiple topics/audiences.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:27 AM Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> wrote: > Same as in an email thread, you change the topic for a subpart of your > conversation. You can opt to fork the topic name at a > given point in time retroactively (which you don't get for emails). > > On Mon 18-07-30 9:10, Steve Ebersole wrote: > >In practice, what happens when a discussion spans multiple topics? > > > > > >On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 9:43 AM Emmanuel Bernard <emman...@hibernate.org> > >wrote: > > > >> On Fri 18-07-27 14:38, Guillaume Smet wrote: > >> >On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:31 PM Emmanuel Bernard < > emman...@hibernate.org> > >> >wrote: > >> > > >> >> I like Zulip a lot. I've been using it extensively and the notion of > >> >> topic (like a email subjet) is a big +1 for me and for any more > casual > >> >> lurker. Also it reduces the proliferation of one off/single subject > >> >> channel that a lurker always miss in tools like Slack. > >> >> > >> >> Granted Zulip topics are a bit offsetting for the first 5 posts. And > yes > >> >> their mobile client is really bad. But the desktop client is really > >> >> nice. > >> >> > >> > > >> >I'm not really excited about topics. We might need a topic once a > month, > >> >maybe less, when we start a big discussion on a subject (and even so, > >> >there's usually only one discussion in parallel). > >> > >> If you want to accept the Hibernate community in this and it catches up, > >> then you will have parallel discussions. Join the Infinispan one for an > >> example. > >> > >> Also even if one conversation happens at a given time, it is a very good > >> organiser for someone that is catching up on subject after the actual > >> conversation happened. > >> > >> > > >> >The rest of the time, we just share in the channel. > >> > > >> >If they were optional, that would do but they are not and you always > need > >> 2 > >> >clicks to share (e.g. go to the right stream, then either choose a > topic > >> or > >> >create new topic), whereas you're at most one click away on HipChat. > For > >> >our usage I find it a bit suboptimal. > >> > > >> >I use the HipChat mobile client from time to time, not sure how bad > >> Zulip's > >> >is. Can you at least follow the streams and post messages? > >> > > >> >Anyway, it's more a -0 than a -1 for Zulip. > >> > > >> >Never used Slack. > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Guillaume > >> _______________________________________________ > >> hibernate-dev mailing list > >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > >> > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
