Gitter Chat Room

[alex-milanov]

Hey guys, seems like a lot of orgs and repos tend to get their own gitter chat room (which is like slack for open source).

A little context: I've used this library in my projects in the past and couple of weeks ago I was looking to use it again for a code editor in my slides app for a talk I did on functional reactive javascript. As it was not easy to just integrate it in an npm + browserify asset pipeline I did the minimum amount of changes so that it can be integrated in my project and created a PR at #476 (More info and example usage there)

As it's been ~15 days since I opened the PR and haven't received a response and I am already starting to focus on other stuff I decided to poke things a little bit and see if we can improve the process.

So I decided to create an "interim" gitter chat (The maintainers could always create an official one)

Here is the link: https://gitter.im/alex-milanov/code-prettify

[amroamroamro]

FYI there's an existing Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/js-code-prettifier (mentioned in the readme file)

[alex-milanov]

@amroamroamro good to know.

• The logic for a chat room compared to forum/email list experience is that it allows for a more immediate conversation. So you don't have to wait hrs, days, months ... for response
• Gitter itself is focused on open source projects and has close integration with github. (I have 1 tab for most of the open source projects I follow, contribute ...)
• Also recently (I have to say I don't have much experience in that) new chat room related workflows and automations have emerged with chatbots, commands ... In theory you could automate the whole repo and team management in one window.

[amroamroamro]

I'm not against having a chat room, I was just bringing to attention the existing group :)