On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 14:40 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > On 10/14/2015 02:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The only thing that concerns me is that at that point we'd have the > > new > > thing, IRC, Ask, *and* the mailing lists, soon with Hyperkitty > > which in > > some senses overlaps with all the others. > > > > All of these are good things but would we have a coherent story > > about > > why we had all of them, and would it just make it a nightmare to > > find > > the right information / person? > > So the intention with hubs is that it would have a web based chat > interface that would use IRC. So if you prefer your old IRC client, > keep > using it; if you're a newbie and not familiar with IRC and want to > communicate with Fedora folks, use Hubs chat (which is actually just > the > same IRC channels under the covers.) > > Same thing with mailing lists / hyperkitty. If you prefer mailing > lists, > fine, stick with mutt or pine or $CLIENT_OF_CHOICE. If you're not > into > mailing lists you can read the messages and engage in convo directly > in > the hubs interface (we'll probably embed pieces of hyperkitty to do > this) > > We haven't thought too much about ask integration with hubs yet bc > there > was a GSoC project this summer to redesign the UI, but at some point > we > could integrate that too. > > So the idea behind hubs is to enable folks who don't want to use the > raw > services but still want to participate in Fedora to do so. > > Does that make more sense / seem more coherent? Oh, I wasn't criticizing the *current* plan, I was wondering whether if we stuck another thing on top of the pile it might be going too far... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
