Add a Gitter Chat for this project!

[aadrian]

Please add a Gitter Chat for this project.

The IRQ channel doesn't seem to have history, so it's quite useless.

Thank you.

[pimotte]

I'm sorry to say that this project is not under active development, and both a Gitter and IRC are sort of equivalent to /dev/null.

[aadrian]

@pimotte well, that's sad since the project isn't even building, and new potential developers can't ask questions. IRC doesn't work with time delays.

[pimotte]

If the project isn't building, feel free to create an issue. Generally, for issues like that one of us might jump in and come back. If anyone is interested enough to take over as maintainer, I'd also be more than happy to be available for knowledge transfer, but I'd want to schedule something for that.

My point is that we don't watch the IRC now, so adding another channel doesn't solve the problem.

[aadrian]

My point is that we don't watch the IRC now, so adding another channel doesn't solve the problem.

IRC can't be really "watched" since if the user is disconnected, the history is gone.
Gitter allows to respond even after days, is connected with Github, and the users can search the history for answers. Setting up (for someone with Github rights to the repo) is trivial.

If anyone is interested enough to take over as maintainer, I'd also be more than happy to be available for knowledge transfer

I'm interested in having a (Java based if possible - except for iOS) sync solution. SyncAny seems to already do allot, so if I could understand how and why it does what it does, it might be a better developing it than starting from scratch :) .

[pimotte]

My personal experience with Gitter from the other side is that there are a billion people asking questions and no one answering. Issues give a plenty asynchronous way to communicate, and if it's not important enough for an issue, then I personally don't have the time for it.

What Syncany does:

• Provide an abstraction layer around cloud service such that you can use them efficiently with encryption.

If that is what you want, using cloud storage/a server outside your control with encryption, then I'm not aware of a better alternative. If you're simply looking to sync files, any of OwnCloud, rsync, SyncThing might be suitable. If you're set on having Java, and you want a syncing solution, but don't need encryption, I recommend to either look for something else or write it from scratch.

[dbohdan]

You can add logging to an IRC channel with either a self-hosted bot or a service like https://botbot.me/. The latter provides searchable logs and is quick to set up.

[aadrian]

@pimotte thank you very much for the recommendation.

Are there any benchmarks regarding the sync speed of SyncAny? Or maybe even compared to some other solutions?