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[Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 July 2011 14:13, Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Here's how I imagine it'd work. Let's say we're adding an in-line
> commenting feature to diffs in merge proposals. When someone was
> looking at a merge proposal page, we could pop-up a JS overlay that
> invites them to take part in a phone/Skype call. They'd have the
> option to enter their phone number/Skype ID/whatever, or select "Ask
> me another time" or "Never ask me about this again".

This sounds like a cool idea. We might want to make it possible for
people to say "Never ask me about any of these features at all, ever,"
just in case they're particularly cantankerous about such things.
Also, we should bear in mind that we're going to be interrupting their
workflow, so there may be one or two social pitfalls that we need to
negotiate to make this work nicely and to reduce complaints from
users.

> If we wanted to do something more sophisticated, we could have some
> kind chat in the overlay to make it a bit friendlier and easier to
> organise.

That sounds like a cool idea, too. I've no idea how we'd implement it,
mind you :)