Add DMs / Group chats / Project chats / Organization chats

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Add DMs / Group chats / Project chats / Organization chats #1546

Open ethanent opened 5 years ago

ethanent commented 5 years ago

I feel like it'd be nice to be able to chat with people through GitHub. Especially in open source projects, it could be helpful to have built-in chat for public support and feedback.

TPS commented 5 years ago

Issues, &c, seem to be real-time enough for pretty much any scenario. When is chat necessary?

alerque commented 5 years ago

@TPS Team/Project/Direct chat fills a need for an entirely different mode of communication for which issue comments are not suited. Note for example how many Github projects have a Gitter chat room. Given how well that works I don't feel a strong need for it to be built into Github, but it's worth acknowledging that many projects benefit from having chat.

oprogramador commented 5 years ago

We can live without that because we can comment issues and PRs or setup Slack/ Gitter for some larger projects.

However it would be useful to have chat out-of-the-box. Maybe something like that for each repo:

General channel + a limitless number of other channels
One-level threads
Supporting Markdown and emojis in the same way as GitHub comments support that
Video calls available

Moreover the same for each organization (to discuss issues concerning many repos).

TPS commented 5 years ago

Would it be useful, then, to be able to convert such dialogs to issues, whenever a resolution can't be reached by end of that session?