[pytest-dev] github push notification / pytest channel

[holger krekel]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 14:25 +0100, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> On 20 June 2015 at 16:37, Anatoly Bubenkov <bubenkoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How about slack for notifications and chat?
> >
> >
> > On 15:42, Sat, Jun 20, 2015 Tom Viner <tom at viner.tv> wrote:
> >>
> >> +1 for Gitter. Really reduces the barrier to entry for people to engage.
> 
> Could gitter bridge bi-directionally with IRC on freenode?   There is
> also webchat.freenode.net btw, maybe we should add that to the docs as
> well?
> 
> As for slack, not sure if that's very suitable as it's not really
> designed as a public service so you'd have to sign up people.  I guess
> the feature people like is that it preserves history.  I'm also not a
> huge fan of keeping adding closed products into the workflow/community
> of a free software projects to be honest.  But I guess IRC must be
> pretty alien to many people.

FWIW i am unlikely to participate in another communication channel
and generally agree on minimizing the usage of proprietary services.
What's bad about IRC and freenode which is kind of a standard for
open source developments?

holger