Andrey Kurilin wrote: > I'm happy to announce our new chats at gitter.im <http://gitter.im> : > [...]
While I understand where you're coming from, I would like to remind you that the OpenStack community standardized on IRC for community communication. Maintaining alternate communication channels might make it slightly easier for your team members, but it makes it more difficult for others in the OpenStack community to follow what is happening, and participate to Rally development. This is why as part of the official OpenStack project team requirements we have usage of IRC baked in. IRC is a standard protocol, implemented in a lot of open source clients. Alternatives like Slack or Gitter are closed-source services with terms of use (and future decisions on openness and pricing) that may or may not be acceptable by our community members -- using them creates fragmentation within the OpenStack community. That is not saying that IRC is perfect and that we will never move to something else. But when we do, it will be as a community (and after an open community discussion) and not project per project. It is also likely to be toward an open protocol supported by open source software, rather than one specific third-party proprietary web service. Regards, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
