Why we should move away from Gitter

Gitter is a unified community of a very large cross-section of OSS developers, and we can chat with upstream easily

cobot should be renamed

fait accompli, repository is already renamed.

cobot should be renamed

It could respond to the old and new names, allowing a smooth migration.
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cobot should be renamed

This would kill existing muscle memory

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

There are bugs in the code review reply functionality that causes replies to disappear, and are otherwise jarring for the MR workflow.

Why we should move away from Gitter

Newbies and 'users' are interested in a single conversation related to their current problem.

Why we should move away from Gitter

Threaded group conversations like in Zulip are a new paradigm, and can be complex to use efficiently for high volume users.

Why we should move away from Gitter

But it is usable for basic communication. Copy and paste work. Can access all ongoing conversations. Conversations are sorted by recent posts.

Why we should move away from Gitter

We should reconsider this after GitLab releases Gitter as Open Source Software, which may radically change everything.

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

We presume that being on GitHub brings in lots of newcomers. However the newcomers that become regular developers appear to not be shy of doing MR on GitLab.

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

The main repositories can be on GitHub, and other repositories on GitLab
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We should move coala repositories to GitLab

We should wait until GitLab Inc. open sources Gitter in June 2017, as that will allow fixes to current incompatibilities between Gitter and GitLab which are hurting adoption.
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We should move coala repositories to GitLab

We can have some repositories on github and some on gitlab, getting the best features of each.

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

coala can pioneer GitLab tooling as a test bed for gitmate like it did for GitHub.

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

gitmate has a GSOC project for adding GitLab and Bitbucket support.

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

cobot support for GitLab has been increasing over the last few months.

We should move coala repositories to GitLab

The GitLab native project permissions model is still a mystery to the maintainers, and we dont yet have tools to manage adding users in order to replicate our newcomer process.

Take a symbolic membership fee for voting rights equal to 20€/year(starting point) adjusted via ppp similar to gsoc student money.

Tax deductibility is likely going to be ineligible, or difficult, in countries outside the EU unless a local branch is created.

It is best to not enforce an 80 column width limit in Python

The tools can be improved instead of having this argument.

It is best to not enforce an 80 column width limit in Python

this is mostly due to string literals that exceed the 80 column width. Static analysis tools typically do not generally apply different line lengths based on line content, but eventually they will, and some already do for URLs.