Legoktm wrote:
On 05/04/2015 08:07 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
* You can now chat with other users
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Conpherence> in Phabricator. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392>
Uh, why? Where was this actually discussed with more than 4 people? We
already have IRC and mailing lists, so why do we need yet another
communication system? Are we going to be enabling Phriction next?
Please turn it off.
I briefly played around with Conpherence yesterday. I'm not sure I'd call
it chat software and I'm not sure it's intended as such. It felt like
forum software, from what I can tell.
Initial pain points/oddities:
* the conversations/threads don't auto-refresh
* every message triggers a separate e-mail notification by default
* messages can include fancier formatting, but it wasn't apparent how to
preview a message before sending
I'm inclined to agree that e-mail and IRC (and Phabricator's Maniphest
with its quoting functionality and the wikis and the mailing lists and...)
are sufficient for Wikimedia development. That said, I can understand the
view of this being just another tool and, y'know, "if you don't like it,
don't use it" and all that. I've re-opened the discussion at
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392> as I think whether we enable
Conpherence needs further thought and consideration.
MZMcBride
P.S. I'm also lightly reminded of Zawinski's law about every program
expanding in size until it includes e-mail. :-)