[IPython-dev] Results of last year's user survey

[mcburton]

++ for freenode IRC with the webchat.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On Mar 11, 2014 4:15 AM, "Matthias BUSSONNIER"
> <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Le 11 mars 2014 à 07:38, Nelle Varoquaux a écrit :
>>
>> > I think I already asked Matthias about this, but why not simply use irc?
>> > It has all the features you require, and is the default communication channel
>> > for software engineers.
>>
>> The Irc channel still exist, one of the problem is the energy barrier to enter it.
>> And for what it is worth, hip chat is really great for beginner user that have no github account
>> you just have to follow the link, enter your name and chat.
>
> We're a smaller project (by a good amount) than IPython, but we've had
> good luck with the Freenode web gateway for yt:
>
> http://webchat.freenode.net/
>
> You can have it pre-populate the channels list by adding an argument
> to the iframe like ?channels=ipython .  Guest accounts work just fine
> here.
>
> -Matt
>
>>
>> I personally don't like hipchat, but there is one big advantage for me, being out of schedule with most of the team,
>> @mention me in one of hip chat room send me a text (don't' always have phone data everywhere, or on, so app-things
>> is next to useless to me).
>>
>> Also the migration to hipchat was done more or less at the same time as the "deprecation" of IPython-user list,
>> and I think one of the main goal was to simplify things for newcomers.
>>
>> > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
>>
>> This thing is hipchat.
>>
>> But it does not prevent you from asking on irc, stack overflow, twitter...
>> We should just not tell someone who is in need for help that he need to choose,
>> and that he need to install something and learn a new software.
>>
>> As much as I prefer gitter to hipchat, you can have 100ds of room on gitter,
>> which is not  friendly for someone not used to the project, and UI is confusing.
>>
>> Finally I've started to see if we could have a hubot to do hipchat/irc/whatever bridge.
>> it seem possible I just miss time to write it.
>>
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