Gitter chat room?

[bevacqua]

To make the project more welcoming I think it'd make sense to have a gitter chat room and a badge in the README. Thoughts?

[Fishrock123]

@bevacqua Someone took the gitter room and locked it as private. Afaik we're not sure who.

[mydigitalself]

Do you have the room URL?

[Fishrock123]

https://gitter.im/iojs/io.js

[mydigitalself]

Sorry, I should have been more specific and was busy editing my comment. That room doesn't exist in Gitter at all, so was wondering if perhaps somebody created it as a channel with a different name?

[Fishrock123]

I really have no idea, but it would be useful if we could have the open repo one @mydigitalself. :)

[bevacqua]

Can't you just query the DB and find the room associated with this repo or something? @mydigitalself

[mydigitalself]

@Fishrock123 in order to protect people's namespaces, you have to have push access to a repo in order to create the room on Gitter.

I'm guessing you have push access to the website, because I see this: https://gitter.im/iojs/iojs.github.io, which is probably not ideal.

If you have push access to iojs/io.js just click on Create a room (bottom left), choose Repository and you can filter down to io.js in there. If not, you need to get someone with push access to do it.

[Fishrock123]

cc @mikeal

[bevacqua]

Can someone invite me to iojs/io.js if it exists? Gitter is being dumb.

_{Fishrock123 16 hours ago}

for some reason it is private
i'll ping some people and figure out why, i'm not in it either 😄

_{mikeal 15 hours ago}

[mikeal]

I'm an owner of the org and I can't get in to the room, I don't understand this :(

[finnp]

@mikeal It's because the room is not created yet. It is not private it just doesn't exist. Go to http://gitter.im and click on Create a room to create it. It's bad UI but that's how it works.

Or just click this link: https://gitter.im/#confirm/iojs/io.js :D

[bevacqua]

Shouldn't it just be "This room doesn't exist yet, create it?" type of UX? It'd be pretty neat if GitHub did that as well, come think of it

[mikeal]

@finnp when i tried that in gitter it said it was already created, I'll try again.

[mikeal]

@finnp "You cannot create a channel with this name as a repo with the same name already exists."

[bevacqua]

Paradox