Slack Group?

[ForbesLindesay]

Would people be interested if I set up a slack group for jstransformers? I think it mgiht be useful for some slightly more ad-hoc discussion around the project. It would also be somewhere we could send notifications of failed builds (only failed master builds, I don't see any point in notifying on failed branch builds).

P.S. I'm looking to get a bit more actively involved in this project and plan to carve out at least an hour per fortnight to spend on maintaining it.

[RyanZim]

I'll just put in my 2 cents for https://gitter.im here.

• Uses your GitHub login, so there's no additional login to keep track of.
• Integration with GitHub out of the box.
• Doesn't require a weird invite app to make a public chatroom
• Unlimited chat history for free, unlike Slack

BTW, not affiliated with Gitter in any way, just have used it on other projects and like it for open-source project chats. Slack is a bit more full-featured for large teams, channel management, threads, etc. but for the volume I'd expect from this project, Gitter will work great.

[ForbesLindesay]

@RyanZim My experience of Gitter is that it almost always ends up not being used. I won't be logged in to it because I don't use it for work. It doesn't have anywhere near as good a system for notifications, channels, threads etc. as slack has. I've also done all the work to integrate build flows etc. into slack, and could just copy-paste those in to our CI workflows. Setting up the equivalent for gitter would require setup from scratch.

I'm also primarily thinking this would be a place for core contributors to hang out, so I'm not too worried if it's a little clunky for other people to join.

[RyanZim]

Gotcha.