Chat system for maintainers and contributors

[andreabergia]

Hey, I think it would be worth having a chat system setup for maintainers and contributors. There are multiple options:

• Slack is not amazing for us at ServiceNow, as it is owned by our main competitor, but it does work via the web UI and it's a good tool. Gets my vote.
• Discord is the tool of choice for many communities lately. It's ok. Gets my vote.
• I think no one really wants to even try and use Teams, right? 🙂
• I've tried to use Matrix and I personally really dislike the UI and complexity.
• I know Zulip is also quite used for various open source communities, but I've never tried it.

Are there any other tool I missed?

[p-bakker]

Note that I have already secured/setup the rhinojs.slack.com org in the past, so if Slack is chosen...

[aardvark179]

Okay @andreabergia's options:

• Slack is fine with me, I've got it on my phone, and like @andreabergia can use the web interface $work laptop.
• Discord is also fine but I'm on so many discords it can be a pain to keep up and tends to mix work and non-work stuff.
• Teams is probably off the table due to it being proprietary and terrible.
• Matrix is okay, but I don't like the interface on the standard app that much—but I've already got it installed for tc39 stuff and there are other clients.
• Not used Zulip, so can't comment.

Other possible things:

• Gitter—actually I see it's migrated to Matrix.
• IRC 😀
• Right here - if they would only add private discussions.

[rbri]

for me everything is fine, i will simply use whatever fits for you

[0xe]

I guess slack is fine for me.. but I would love to have an excuse to get back to using IRC.

[p-bakker]

Added you based on the email address in your GitHub profile

[andreabergia]

Shall we go with Slack then?

[aardvark179]

I think we should. @p-bakker, do you need to send out invitations?

[p-bakker]

Added you based on the email address in your GitHub profile

[rbri]

@p-bakker can you please add me also?

[p-bakker]

Invited you based on the email address in your GitHub profile

[p-bakker]

The free Slack plan offers three roles:

• Workspace Owner
• Workspace Admin
• Regular Member

Right now I'm the owner and others are regular members.
To mimic the repo settings, shall I make @rbri and @gbrail workspace owners?

[p-bakker]

@gbrail you dont have a public email address on your Github account

[gbrail]

***@***.*** for me.

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[p-bakker]

Don't think I can act on that

[aardvark179]

I've sent you a slack message, because that seemed like the easiest way to get round GH's attempts to stop this sort of thing leaking.