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Aren't a lot of open source communities based around IRC channels or is that old hat now? I remember back in the day IRC was the place to be for Debian. Ditto

• bad_user 8y ago
  Well now that you mention it, in the communities I care about, IRC was replaced by Gitter (https://gitter.im/ https://gitter.im/). Which is also linked to GitHub accounts and repositories. Ironically, Gitter was bought by GitLab and open sourced, but they haven't changed the implementation to allow for chat rooms linked to GitLab repos. At the glacial pace it is evolving, it wouldn't be unfair to say that Gitter is probably relying solely on OSS contributions at this point.
  • herbst 8y ago
    While gitter generally is a good idea I have yet to land in a active channel. The partly abondened IRC channels often still show a lot more activity even when they link to their gitter in their meta.
    • bad_user 8y ago
      Not my experience, it depends on the community you're talking about I guess. Here's some channels I'm on, all being so active that I have a hard time keeping up: - https://gitter.im/scala/scala https://gitter.im/scala/scala - https://gitter.im/scala-js/scala-js https://gitter.im/scala-js/scala-js - https://gitter.im/typelevel/cats https://gitter.im/typelevel/cats - https://gitter.im/typelevel/cats-effect https://gitter.im/typelevel/cats-effect - https://gitter.im/monix/monix https://gitter.im/monix/monix - https://gitter.im/http4s/http4s https://gitter.im/http4s/http4s
• berti 8y ago
  IRC is a good substitute for being in the same room, but you still need more formal discussions recorded in issues and pull requests (the recorded part is quite important if you project is around for more than a few weeks).