[LEDE-DEV] A request not making IRC necessary to be part of the action

[andrew]

How about something like rocket.chat or one of the opensource self
hosted alternatives?

On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 17:29 -0400, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
> On 16-05-16 05:18 PM, Daniel Curran-Dickinson wrote:
> > 
> > The objective is so that you don't have isolated pools of TZ's
> > where one
> > TZ has little insight into what the other TZ is doing and has no
> > *good*
> > mechanisms for communicating across timezones.
> > 
> > Reading IRC chat logs is an exercise is pain for many, so that's
> > not
> > really the answer for cross-timezone communication.
> > 
> > IRC, for many of us, is something that is only useful when it's
> > realtime.
> > 
> It is also difficult to follow *threads* of conversation that are
> severely time-delayed.
> 
> In addition, in order to not miss messages you really need to set up
> a
> bouncer that is always on and keeps a unread messages even across an
> unexpected reboot or logging out of your console/gui session.
> 
> Email is far superior for time-delayed threads of communication.  If
> you're having problems with managing your email, it's your email
> strategy that needs to change, not the use of email.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dan iel
> 
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