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Sean Cooper
Hello, I'm on the development team for OpenColorIO, and would like to raise the conversation around project communication platforms. Quickly looking at the Collaboration Tools list for ASWF I see the usual options of Mailing Lists and Issue Tracking. However, OCIO has greatly benefited by having real-time communication through a Slack group which promotes candid responses from maintainers and community members instead of long essays like this. I believe this fosters a greater feeling of participation and community which was very helpful in re-kindling development with the project. I'm am definitely not a proponent of Slack. In fact, I really dislike it and am starting the conversation with our community on switching to an alternative. When/if OpenColorIO is moved under the care of the ASWF, I would like to see a real-time communication platform promoted. At the moment the best option which I have yet to use in practice is Zulip ( https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/). The features they offer seem to be a substantial gain over Slack or alternatives.
- Apache 2.0 Licensed
- Free hosting for OSS (maybe ASWF hosts a server)
- Join without invitation
- Permalink to conversations
- Github issue links e.g. #1234
- Github/Jenkins/TravisCI integrations
- Proper nested conversations (thank goodness)
- Public archival coming soon apparently
In summary, real-time communication with asynchronous participation is vital to project success. With the declining use of email-lists ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09529.pdf) I'd love to see an option promoted and used across ASWF projects.
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Thanh Ha
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:01 AM < sean@...> wrote: Hello,
I'm on the development team for OpenColorIO, and would like to raise the conversation around project communication platforms. Quickly looking at the Collaboration Tools list for ASWF I see the usual options of Mailing Lists and Issue Tracking. However, OCIO has greatly benefited by having real-time communication through a Slack group which promotes candid responses from maintainers and community members instead of long essays like this. I believe this fosters a greater feeling of participation and community which was very helpful in re-kindling development with the project.
I'm am definitely not a proponent of Slack. In fact, I really dislike it and am starting the conversation with our community on switching to an alternative. When/if OpenColorIO is moved under the care of the ASWF, I would like to see a real-time communication platform promoted. At the moment the best option which I have yet to use in practice is Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/).
The features they offer seem to be a substantial gain over Slack or alternatives.
- Apache 2.0 Licensed
- Free hosting for OSS (maybe ASWF hosts a server)
- Join without invitation
- Permalink to conversations
- Github issue links e.g. #1234
- Github/Jenkins/TravisCI integrations
- Proper nested conversations (thank goodness)
- Public archival coming soon apparently
In summary, real-time communication with asynchronous participation is vital to project success. With the declining use of email-lists ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09529.pdf) I'd love to see an option promoted and used across ASWF projects.
Many Open Source projects use Freenode IRC. Something that I think a lot of these new tools miss is that there's no single agreed upon server for Open Source projects in general, so if folks want to cross collaborate with another community it's harder (need new accounts on different systems just to join 1 channel).
If you work with 10 different project communities and have to connect to 10 different tools / protocols it quickly get's out of hand. I'm not sure if anyone else participates in multiple project communities but if ASWF plans to cross collaborate with another community (maybe dependency projects) it is much easier to just "/join #channel" then to have to sign up for an entirely new account on another system.
Something ASWF might want to consider when choosing a collaboration tool.
Regards, Thanh
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Scott Petrovic
I would agree that real-time chat is extremely important with any type of project. We use it on a daily basis when we are hashing out ideas, having meetings, or trying to solve problems. We still use the old school IRC, but we also have an IRC web client for non-technical people ( https://krita.org/en/irc/) . The main reason we have stayed with IRC is that you don't have to have an account to talk with people. This is great from a support standpoint with people just wanting to ask a question, but that concern might not be relevant with this group. I am not sure if this is a concern for the ASWF, but having a public archive might be something you may, or may not want for the realtime chat. If the entire history of conversations are preserved, that can sometimes lead to privacy issues where people don't want everything they say "on the record". Not everything is always well thought out when you can talk in real time. Lists like this people at least have a bit of time to reflect on something before they post it.
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Edward Warnicke
Sean,
Community personalities differ, and its important to find the tool that fits them.
I’ve worked in communities that *only* operate via mailing lists, you can’t get *anyone* on slack or IRC. I’ve also worked in communities where almost *everything* happens on slack and IRC and the mailing lists are moribund.
Slack and IRC each have their pluses and minuses. Choosing one is something that the ASWF community is going to have to do for itself.
You also need to decide whether to have a single ASWF slack with channels for the projects, or a slack channel per project. Again, the appropriate choice is going to be dictated by the particular personalities of the projects in ASWF.
My recommendation would be to make a quick ‘starter call’ and get something going, and then see how it goes. Some things simply require experimentation.
On August 22, 2018 at 9:45:55 AM, Thanh Ha (thanh.ha@...) wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:01 AM < sean@...>
wrote:
Hello,
I'm on the development team for OpenColorIO, and would like to
raise the conversation around project communication platforms.
Quickly looking at the Collaboration Tools list for ASWF I see the
usual options of Mailing Lists and Issue Tracking. However, OCIO
has greatly benefited by having real-time communication through a
Slack group which promotes candid responses from maintainers and
community members instead of long essays like this. I believe this
fosters a greater feeling of participation and community which was
very helpful in re-kindling development with the
project.
I'm am definitely not a proponent of Slack. In fact, I really
dislike it and am starting the conversation with our community on
switching to an alternative. When/if OpenColorIO is moved under the
care of the ASWF, I would like to see a real-time communication
platform promoted. At the moment the best option which I have yet
to use in practice is Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/).
The features they offer seem to be a substantial gain over Slack or
alternatives.
- Apache 2.0 Licensed
- Free hosting for OSS (maybe ASWF hosts a server)
- Join without invitation
- Permalink to conversations
- Github issue links e.g. #1234
- Github/Jenkins/TravisCI integrations
- Proper nested conversations (thank goodness)
- Public archival coming soon apparently
In summary, real-time communication with
asynchronous participation is vital to project success. With
the declining use of email-lists ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09529.pdf) I'd love to see
an option promoted and used across ASWF projects.
Many Open Source projects use Freenode IRC. Something that I
think a lot of these new tools miss is that there's no single
agreed upon server for Open Source projects in general, so if folks
want to cross collaborate with another community it's harder (need
new accounts on different systems just to join 1 channel).
If you work with 10 different project communities and have to
connect to 10 different tools / protocols it quickly get's out of
hand. I'm not sure if anyone else participates in multiple project
communities but if ASWF plans to cross collaborate with another
community (maybe dependency projects) it is much easier to just
"/join #channel" then to have to sign up for an entirely new
account on another system.
Something ASWF might want to consider when choosing a
collaboration tool.
Regards,
Thanh
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Sean Cooper
Thanks,
Yes, I don't want my comment to seem to impose my solution, but exactly to the point above if something isn't chosen at the get-go, each sub-project will do their own thing and some uniformity would be great.
Each project has different communities and different paces of development of course, so I don't think its right to force anyone to use a real-time tool if Email Lists get the job done, but having one answer when people start asking for it would be nice and ease integration and cross-project communication.
Perhaps I'm just a young yuppie, but abandoning modern features for IRC could work but logging would be a must, and from following ffmpeg development even loosely finding any conversation is horrible unless you know the exact day and time the conversation happened, and you better hope no one else asked a question in between. This is why I'm so drawn to the Zulip real-time threads concept. I agree though, an option to join a channel without signing up would be great. I've asked that question to Zulip here if you care to follow.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Edward Warnicke <hagbard@...> wrote: Sean,
Community personalities differ, and its important to find the tool that fits them.
I’ve worked in communities that *only* operate via mailing lists, you can’t get *anyone* on slack or IRC. I’ve also worked in communities where almost *everything* happens on slack and IRC and the mailing lists are moribund.
Slack and IRC each have their pluses and minuses. Choosing one is something that the ASWF community is going to have to do for itself.
You also need to decide whether to have a single ASWF slack with channels for the projects, or a slack channel per project. Again, the appropriate choice is going to be dictated by the particular personalities of the projects in ASWF.
My recommendation would be to make a quick ‘starter call’ and get something going, and then see how it goes. Some things simply require experimentation.
Ed
On August 22, 2018 at 9:45:55 AM, Thanh Ha (thanh.ha@...) wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:01 AM < sean@...>
wrote:
Hello,
I'm on the development team for OpenColorIO, and would like to
raise the conversation around project communication platforms.
Quickly looking at the Collaboration Tools list for ASWF I see the
usual options of Mailing Lists and Issue Tracking. However, OCIO
has greatly benefited by having real-time communication through a
Slack group which promotes candid responses from maintainers and
community members instead of long essays like this. I believe this
fosters a greater feeling of participation and community which was
very helpful in re-kindling development with the
project.
I'm am definitely not a proponent of Slack. In fact, I really
dislike it and am starting the conversation with our community on
switching to an alternative. When/if OpenColorIO is moved under the
care of the ASWF, I would like to see a real-time communication
platform promoted. At the moment the best option which I have yet
to use in practice is Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/).
The features they offer seem to be a substantial gain over Slack or
alternatives.
- Apache 2.0 Licensed
- Free hosting for OSS (maybe ASWF hosts a server)
- Join without invitation
- Permalink to conversations
- Github issue links e.g. #1234
- Github/Jenkins/TravisCI integrations
- Proper nested conversations (thank goodness)
- Public archival coming soon apparently
In summary, real-time communication with
asynchronous participation is vital to project success. With
the declining use of email-lists ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09529.pdf) I'd love to see
an option promoted and used across ASWF projects.
Many Open Source projects use Freenode IRC. Something that I
think a lot of these new tools miss is that there's no single
agreed upon server for Open Source projects in general, so if folks
want to cross collaborate with another community it's harder (need
new accounts on different systems just to join 1 channel).
If you work with 10 different project communities and have to
connect to 10 different tools / protocols it quickly get's out of
hand. I'm not sure if anyone else participates in multiple project
communities but if ASWF plans to cross collaborate with another
community (maybe dependency projects) it is much easier to just
"/join #channel" then to have to sign up for an entirely new
account on another system.
Something ASWF might want to consider when choosing a
collaboration tool.
Regards,
Thanh
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On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
I think you just proved that threading is a must :-)
I agree though, an option to join a channel without signing up would be great.
+1
A consistent approach among projects would be great. I think it is difficult though to use a new startup’s tool because they are still chasing a business model. What features will still be present and/or advancing and which go by the wayside.
For a project started in 2004, I found it very useful at times to have the history of the project and sample images that were used still available. It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool. This is true as well in SMPTE’s Kavi (higher logic) where reorganizations have wiped clean previous threads. Although working in the moment on current topics is important for collaboration, I would also suggest the benefits of long-term learning from past decisions can be useful.
Especially in software projects where it seems that every decade or so, there is a significant throwing out of previous efforts sometimes ignoring the benefits of tested and working codes. (acknowledging that sometimes spaghetti just has to GO )
Jim Houston
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Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists and dreading using Slack or IRC? They're ok for totally ephemeral "gotta do this thing right now" stuff, but I hate when actual substantive discussions or decisions for projects are made on those channels.
On August 22, 2018 10:08:04 AM PDT, Jim Houston <jim.houston@...> wrote:
On Aug 22, 2018, at 9:04 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
I think you just proved that threading is a must :-)
I agree though, an option to join a channel without signing up would be great.
+1
A consistent approach among projects would be great. I think it is difficult though to use a new startup’s tool because they are still chasing a business model. What features will still be present and/or advancing and which go by the wayside.
For a project started in 2004, I found it very useful at times to have the history of the project and sample images that were used still available. It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool. This is true as well in SMPTE’s Kavi (higher logic) where reorganizations have wiped clean previous threads. Although working in the moment on current topics is important for collaboration, I would also suggest the benefits of long-term learning from past decisions can be useful.
Especially in software projects where it seems that every decade or so, there is a significant throwing out of previous efforts sometimes ignoring the benefits of tested and working codes. (acknowledging that sometimes spaghetti just has to GO )
Jim Houston
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@LarryGritz, Perhaps, lol. There are implementations that will allow you to post/read like a mail list but have messages thread and show up in real time on a chat window so everyone is happy. I believe Slack has this feature, and maybe a few IRC's? Haven't used IRC in a while.
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Sean Cooper
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's all hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
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I believe Larry has it correct. Chat is amazing for quick collaboration and question answering but I suspect that these discussions are actually meant for discussions and thus belong on an email list / forum.
On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's
all hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
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Too echo Larry and Darin's the joy of living in a crappy timezone where you are all mostly asleep, I hope that mailing lists can at least be the main form of communication with real-time being a supplement for the real-time interactions.
I believe Larry has it correct. Chat is amazing for quick collaboration and question answering but I suspect that these discussions are actually meant for discussions and thus belong on an email list / forum.
On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's
all hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
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Not to beat a dead horse, but when somebody says "real time", what I hear is "somebody important on the project, maybe even me, is going to miss it."
As I understand it, ASWF projects are intended to have a very high level of autonomy in what gets developed and how. I can't imagine that each project community wouldn't decide on its own communications style and mode. Though it's possible that for the ones who choose to have a real time (aka people left out 😜) comm channel, there may end up being an org-wide preference for which one.
On August 22, 2018 2:48:01 PM PDT, Ben De Luca <bdeluca@...> wrote:
Too echo Larry and Darin's the joy of living in a crappy timezone where you are all mostly asleep, I hope that mailing lists can at least be the main form of communication with real-time being a supplement for the real-time interactions.
I believe Larry has it correct. Chat is amazing for quick collaboration and question answering but I suspect that these discussions are actually meant for discussions and thus belong on an email list / forum.
On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's
all hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
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FWIW, I've seen a number of communities start off by adding everyone's favorite real time service - but then they commonly end up back at email and maybe IRC for real time chat during meetings (with a MeetBot addon).
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:33 PM Larry Gritz < lg@...> wrote: Not to beat a dead horse, but when somebody says "real time", what I hear is "somebody important on the project, maybe even me, is going to miss it."
As I understand it, ASWF projects are intended to have a very high level of autonomy in what gets developed and how. I can't imagine that each project community wouldn't decide on its own communications style and mode. Though it's possible that for the ones who choose to have a real time (aka people left out 😜) comm channel, there may end up being an org-wide preference for which one.
On August 22, 2018 2:48:01 PM PDT, Ben De Luca < bdeluca@...> wrote:
Too echo Larry and Darin's the joy of living in a crappy timezone where you are all mostly asleep, I hope that mailing lists can at least be the main form of communication with real-time being a supplement for the real-time interactions.
I believe Larry has it correct. Chat is amazing for quick collaboration and question answering but I suspect that these discussions are actually meant for discussions and thus belong on an email list / forum.
On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's
all hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
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I think both forms of communication are perfectly fine and have their place, but most importantly I don't think it's the role of the ASWF to dictate the tools to use. It is very much - I believe-- in the purview of the individual projects to decide what works best for them.
The foundation (the TAC actually) could recommend that if a real time communication channel is used a default one should be preferred (but again not imposed), or provide an infrastructure for it, if enough projects choose the same, to encourage others to join in (for the advantages pointed up above). Same for a mailing list infrastructure.
S
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 5:53 PM Ben De Luca, < bdeluca@...> wrote: Too echo Larry and Darin's the joy of living in a crappy timezone where you are all mostly asleep, I hope that mailing lists can at least be the main form of communication with real-time being a supplement for the real-time interactions.
I believe Larry has it correct. Chat is amazing for quick collaboration and question answering but I suspect that these discussions are actually meant for discussions and thus belong on an email list / forum.
On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's
all hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to dead links because of a change in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
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Depends a lot on the communities.
While I personally prefer IRC (or did, until it started dying of spam :( ), I also participate in many communities that use slack instead. Ed
On August 22, 2018 at 9:30:51 PM, Michael Dolan (mdolan@...) wrote:
FWIW, I've seen a number of communities start off by
adding everyone's favorite real time service - but then they
commonly end up back at email and maybe IRC for real time chat
during meetings (with a MeetBot addon).
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 9:33 PM Larry Gritz
< lg@...>
wrote:
Not to beat a dead horse, but when somebody says "real time",
what I hear is "somebody important on the project, maybe even me,
is going to miss it."
As I understand it, ASWF projects are intended to have a very high
level of autonomy in what gets developed and how. I can't imagine
that each project community wouldn't decide on its own
communications style and mode. Though it's possible that for the
ones who choose to have a real time (aka people left out 😜) comm
channel, there may end up being an org-wide preference for which
one.
On August 22, 2018 2:48:01 PM PDT, Ben De
Luca < bdeluca@...> wrote:
Too echo Larry and Darin's the joy of living in a
crappy timezone where you are all mostly asleep, I hope that
mailing lists can at least be the main form of communication with
real-time being a supplement for the real-time
interactions.
I
believe Larry has it correct. Chat is amazing for quick
collaboration and question answering but I suspect that these
discussions are actually meant for discussions and thus belong on
an email list / forum.
On Aug 22, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Sean Cooper < sean@...> wrote:
Am I just a cranky old man for preferring mail
lists
Nope. I think its completely fair for the ASWF to just say no
to real-time options.
Just the number of mile-long emails when something contentious
is discussed always irritates me, especially when usually
people can be calmed down and come to level ground when its a
real-time interaction. So real solutions happen faster. That's all
hearsay, conjecture, and personal bias of course.
It is a significant nuisance when past e-mail/posts point to
dead links because of a change
in the collaboration tool
This is precisely why I propose the ideal solution would be
open source and hosted as a part of ASWF stack (sorry to
maintainers in advance if that actually happens)
--
Darin Grant
Chief Technology Officer
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(main)
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