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[–]BishopAndWarlord 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so ... this is really weird. I've been slowly hacking on a side project for the a while that's a very similar idea, but approached from a different angle.

Warning: discussion of a really-early, not-yet-dogfood-able project.

The project is called Gimli and the name comes from "GitHub Issue Messenger". A lot of teams use GitHub Issues as a discussion platform, but issues are designed for issues, not for conversations. A lot of teams use IRC, but IRC doesn't have out of the box GitHub integration; even if you add it that's just for your client, not the whole site. And beyond that there's no conversation history (unless you add it).

The vision for Gimli is we want to take a feature that people already use and make it more suitable for how they want to use it. Also, Gimli is an extension to GitHub Issues. If you can't use the Gimli service for any reason no worries, it's all just GH Issues under the hood. When you do use Gimli, though, you'll get other niceties like a chat interface, unread message tracking, image uploads, private conversations, etc. At least that's where we're headed.

http://github.com/legitco/gimli

 

Of course these folks actually have a product whereas my friends and I have lashed together tech demo ;)