[SAC] replacing IRC with gitter

[Eli Adam]

While I agree with much of what is being said here and I prefer the
open nature of IRC complete with logs,
http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeo/, that isn't what Jody asked or
necessarily the role of SAC.  Looking at the Board notes,
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-8-24#revision_of_tools_facilitating_board_meetings,
this is a three month experiment.

If the Board wants to try what some of us might think are stupid
things, that is their option.

Returning to Jody's original message:


On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last week the board decided to try some new technologies that members have
> used on other projects.
>
> - To replace email voting --> Loomio (Anita has already set up
> https://www.loomio.org/g/kdSmIwxu/osgeo-board )
> - To replace IRC ---> gitter (like slack but more integrated with github)
>
> To that end I would like ask how we should set up gitter on the SAC mailing
> list before opening up a ticket or doing the work myself.

He asks for information and also offers to do the work.

>
> OSGeo does have a hit repo here (https://github.com/osgeo).
>
> I know for the geoserver project (as a repo admin) we were able to set up a
> private channel for use in code-sprints
> (https://gitter.im/orgs/geoserver/rooms). It looks like we may be able to
> allow people to sign in with github or twitter.
>
> Could I ask to be added as and admin to https://github.com/OSGeo for
> experimentation?

And he makes a specific permissions request.

Maybe Mateusz's answer of the existing rooms already addresses this in part:

"There is OSGeo rooms, as well as OSGeo/tilecache room already created:

https://gitter.im/orgs/OSGeo/rooms"


Best regards, Eli

>
>
>
> --
> Jody Garnett






On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Björn Harrtell <bjorn.harrtell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-09-01 13:59 GMT+02:00 Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io>:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Björn Harrtell wrote:
>>
>> > While I also feel that the open core can be hard to swallow I noted that
>> > if
>> > Mattermost is used with GitLab CE it will work with the LDAP
>> > integration:
>> >
>> > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost
>>
>> Interesting. It looks like Drone, which basically delegates
>> authentication to the "git hoster" (I did setup one for the OSGeo Gogs).
>>
>> Are you up to add gitlab-mattermost to the experimental GitLab
>> service ? Ideally with an IRC bridge to existing IRC channels ?
>
>
> Yes, it is something I'm interested to know more about so I will take a shot
> at it when time permits.
>
>>
>> > > I hope to be still able in the future to talk with you all via IRC.
>> >
>> > Agreed. I also agree with what Jürgen wrote about the downside of
>> > fragmentation and while that also might be inevitable if there is to be
>> > freedom, it would be good if a single channel is encouraged from the
>> > organisation.
>>
>> The "bridge" would maybe just add a layer on top of existing IRC
>> channels (but I hadn't tried it).
>>
>> --strk;
>
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