<div dir="ltr">A quick sidenote for anyone is using <a href="http://riot.im">riot.im</a> but not super familiar with it like I did ...<div><br></div><div>Its global search could not cache all the openstack channels, therefore you have to manually join them via their own cmd lines as I recently discover the methods ..</div><div>1. add @appservice-irc:<a href="http://matrix.org">matrix.org</a> for friend</div><div>2. type in the console : !join <a href="http://chat.freenode.net">chat.freenode.net</a> #openstack-xxx</div><div><br></div><div>For registration, it is more wacky but I found it on google anyways:</div><div>1. add @appservice-irc:<a href="http://matrix.org">matrix.org</a> for friend</div><div>2. type in the console : !storepass <a href="http://chat.freenode.net">chat.freenode.net</a> PASSWORD</div><div>3. add NickServ(IRC) for friend</div><div>4. type in the console : identify NICK PASSWORD</div><div><br></div><div>viola .... </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:34 AM Melvin Hillsman <<a href="mailto:mrhillsman@gmail.com">mrhillsman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regarding some web clients that are potentially useful</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/" target="_blank">https://webchat.freenode.net/</a></div><div> - Zane mentioned this already and I can say I tried/used it some time ago until I opted for CLI/alternatives<br></div><div><a href="https://riot.im" target="_blank">https://riot.im</a> (iOS and Android apps available along with online client)</div><div> - i find it a bit sluggish at times, others have not, either way it is a decent alternative<br></div><div><a href="https://thelounge.chat/" target="_blank">https://thelounge.chat/</a></div><div> - have not tried it yet but looks promising especially self-hosted option</div><div><a href="https://irccloud.com" target="_blank">https://irccloud.com</a></div><div> - what I currently use, I do believe it can be blocked, i am looking into riot and thelounge tbh<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:18 PM Zane Bitter <<a href="mailto:zbitter@redhat.com" target="_blank">zbitter@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 18/09/18 9:10 PM, Jaesuk Ahn wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:30 AM Zane Bitter <<a href="mailto:zbitter@redhat.com" target="_blank">zbitter@redhat.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:zbitter@redhat.com" target="_blank">zbitter@redhat.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
<br>
Resotring the whole quote here because I accidentally sent the original <br>
to the -sigs list only and not the -dev list.<br>
<br>
>> As others have mentioned, I think this is diving into solutions when we haven't defined the problems. I know you mentioned it briefly in the PTG session, but that context never made it to the review or the mailing list.<br>
>> <br>
>> So AIUI the issue you're trying to solve here is that the TC members seem distant and inaccessible to Chinese contributors because we're not on the same social networks they are?<br>
>> <br>
>> Perhaps there are others too?<br>
>> <br>
>> Obvious questions to ask from there would be:<br>
>> <br>
>> - Whether this is the most important issue facing contributors from the APAC region<br>
>> <br>
>> - To what extent the proposed solution is expected to help<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I do agree with Zane on the above point.<br>
<br>
For the record, I didn't express an opinion. I'm just pointing out what <br>
the questions are.<br>
<br>
> As one of OpenStack participants from Asia region, I will put my <br>
> personal opinion.<br>
> IRC and ML has been an unified and standard way of communication in <br>
> OpenStack Community, and that has been a good way to encourage "open <br>
> communication" on a unified method wherever you are from, or whatever <br>
> background you have. If the whole community start recognize some other <br>
> tools (say WeChat) as recommended alternative communication method <br>
> because there are many people there, ironically, it might be a way to <br>
> break "diversity" and "openness" we want to embrace.<br>
> <br>
> Using whatever social media (or tools) in a specific region due to any <br>
> reason is not a problem. Anyone is free to use anything. Only thing we <br>
> need to make sure is, if you want to communicate officially with the <br>
> whole community, there is a very well defined and unified way to do it. <br>
> This is currently IRC and ML. Some of Korean dev has difficulties to use <br>
> IRC. However, there is not a perfect tool out there in this world, and <br>
> we accept all the reason why the community selected IRC as official tool<br>
> <br>
> But, that being said, There are some things I am facing with IRC from <br>
> here in Korea<br>
> <br>
> As a person from Asia, I do have some of pain points. Because of time <br>
> differences, often, I have to do achieve searching since most of <br>
> conversations happened while I am sleeping. IRC is not a good tool to <br>
> perform "search backlog". Although there is message archive you can dig, <br>
> it is still hard. This is a problem. I do love to see any technical <br>
> solution for me to efficiently and easily go through irc backlog, like <br>
> most of modern chat tools.<br>
> <br>
> Secondly, IRC is not a popular one even in dev community here in Korea. <br>
> In addition, in order to properly use irc, you need to do extra work, <br>
> something like setting up bouncing server. I had to do google search to <br>
> figure out how to use it.<br>
<br>
I think part of the disconnect here is that people have different ideas <br>
about what IRC (and chat in general) is for.<br>
<br>
For me it's a way to conduct synchronous conversations. These tend to go <br>
badly on the mailing list (really long threads of 1 sentence per <br>
message) or on code review (have to keep refreshing), so it's good that <br>
we have another tool to do this. I answer a lot of user questions, <br>
clarify comments on patches, and obviously join team meetings in IRC.<br>
<br>
The key part is 'synchronous' though. If I'm not there, the conversation <br>
is not going to be synchronous. I don't run a bouncer, although I <br>
generally leave my computer running when I'm not working so you'll often <br>
(but not always) be able to ping me, and I'll usually look back to see <br>
if it was something important. Otherwise it's 50-50 whether I'll even <br>
bother to read scrollback, and certainly not for more than a couple of <br>
channels.<br>
<br>
Other people, however, have a completely different perspective: they <br>
want a place where they are guaranteed to be reachable at any time (even <br>
if they don't see it until later) and the entire record is always right <br>
there. I think Slack was built for those kinds of people. You would have <br>
to drag me kicking and screaming into Slack even if it weren't <br>
proprietary software.<br>
<br>
I don't know where WeChat falls on that spectrum. But maybe part of the <br>
issue is that we're creating too high an expectation of what it means to <br>
participate in the community (e.g. if you're not going to set up a <br>
bouncer and be reachable 24/7 then you might as well not get involved at <br>
all - this is 100% untrue). I've seen several assertions, including in <br>
the review, that any decisions must be documented on the mailing list or <br>
IRC, and I'm not sure I agree. IMHO, any decisions should be documented <br>
on the mailing list, period.<br>
<br>
I'd love to see more participation on the mailing list. Since it is <br>
asynchronous already it's somewhat friendlier to those in APAC time <br>
zones (although there are still issues, real or perceived, with <br>
decisions being reached before anyone on that side of the world has a <br>
chance to weigh in), and a lot easier than carrying on a conversation in <br>
real time for those who don't speak English natively. And while can <br>
still be technical challenges with mailing lists, almost every company <br>
allows email through their corporate firewall.<br>
<br>
AIUI though, augmenting IRC was not the point of the proposal. Rather, I <br>
think it was for TC members to 'fly the flag' in WeChat to be more <br>
visible and available to the portion of the community that is there.<br>
<br>
> In that sense, It would be great to have <br>
> OpenStack community provided, simplified and well-written, written in <br>
> multiple language, IRC guide docs. Alternatively, if OpenStack community <br>
> can provide a good web-based irc client tool, that would be fantastic.<br>
<br>
I haven't tried it but: <a href="https://webchat.freenode.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://webchat.freenode.net/</a><br>
<br>
> As I described the above, we can certainly have a healthy discussion on <br>
> what different and real problems we are facing from Asia.<br>
> However, I don't think this TC resolution is good way to do that.<br>
> <br>
> Cheers,<br>
> -- <br>
> <br>
> Jaesuk Ahn, Team Lead<br>
> Virtualization SW Lab, SW R&D Center<br>
> <br>
> SK Telecom<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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