Powershell: Enable Gitter

[TravisEz13]

Enable Gitter for communications

[kilasuit]

Is Gitter really the right platform to use for any adhoc communications that dont really fit being an issue?

I've seen it added to a few Repositories only for it to become left in the dark somewhat with no use at all. Is this just from a few that I follow but if it is openly used elsewhere (with decent success too) are there any examples of this at all?

Otherwise I'd be more for suggestively pushing people to the powershell slack team with a dedicated channel??

[rkeithhill]

I'd much prefer a new Slack team along the lines of PowerShellCore.slack.com with perhaps specific channels for Linux and Windows users and maybe even a channel for devs that want to contribute to PS Core (cover build, test, architecture, etc). Or maybe new channels are added to the existing PowerShell.slack.com Slack team.

[oising]

I'm all for using whatever's got the most people on it right now, be that Gitter or Slack. I'd rather not see us split up into multiple channels until we've demonstrably got a need for it. I'd rather have mixed content and a 100 people on one channel than 4 channels with 25 on each.

[kilasuit]

@oising Agreed and that's why I don't think that Gitter as the platform is great idea. There already is a large number of people using slack for PowerShell though there is an issue with Slack not holding the discussions though I'm sure we could.

But I'm glad Yammer wasn't mentioned :wink:

[rkeithhill]

There already is a large number of people using Slack for PowerShell

:+1:

there is an issue with Slack not holding the discussions

The free version of Slack only stores up to 10K of the most recent message data. If Microsoft were to pay for the "Standard" Slack pricing tier, message storage would be unlimited with a 10GB limit on file storage.

[rkeithhill]

@oising Guess I'm a bit colored by our corporate usage of Slack where every software component has a Slack channel. So we have quite a few channels and it's no big deal to switch between them. I do think that the topics "users" want to discuss is likely to be quite different than what folks who want to "contribute" to the open source impl will want to discuss.

[andschwa]

Just to add to this, I'll probably make an IRC channel on Freenode :smile: (it'll get done at some point anyway, might as well have my bouncer owning it).

[kilasuit]

@Jaykul - If theres another IRC Channel how would that work with the current slack team? can you have 2 IRC bots going to different channels at all?

Also @rkeithhill - It would be ace for MS to stump up the per active user fee each month for slack but would that realistically happen?

[kilasuit]

@TravisEz13 - So it seems that we are still going with Gitter #1869

[alexandair]

Why another chat platform, if PowerShell community already picked Slack?

[TravisEz13]

We plan to add Slack as well...

[lzybkr]

Some of us will hang out on slack here:
https://powershell.slack.com/archives/ps-contributors

There's also:
https://powershell.slack.com/archives/linux