Maybe we can then fix all the UI-bugs in gitter which pissed me on so often.
GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
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Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens to Mattermost? They even touched on this ... "What about Mattermost, how is this different? Gitter was built to be used in the open. We’ve always seen Gitter as a network, or a place where people can come to connect to one another. Team collaboration, whilst possible, has never been a core aspect of the Gitter experience. Mattermost is a powerful, integrated messaging product for team collaboration - we…
Thanks, that's good. They surely have the best intentions. Hopefully one product doesn't take priority over the other and/or they can prevent cannibalization. There's definite overlap.
Mattermost is developed by another team https://about.mattermost.com/company/ that is separate from the GitLab/Gitter team. So I think both will continue to grow without affecting each other.
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
edit: would prefer to delete this because it's not especially constructive... Can't we be realistic about companies instead of getting wild eyed? You don't have any reservations about recent events?
Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnating. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users. I haven't seen them promoting that hard as you describe. I wrote my comment of the pure satisfaction with their services and my use case. So stop being ignoran…
Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnatingn. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users.
I have. I've installed Gitlab and Mattermost on my own server. Gitlab is great but I found Slack was a better product (over Mattermost). Have you tried installing it?
I created a Gitlab account and was planning on using it over Github but their recent data loss scared me off. Is that unreasonable? It worries me just as much to see them buying a company a month after that. Is slowing down unreasonable?
I want to use Gitlab. I like their open approach, but if people just praise them without being objective about it it doesn't benefit any of us. I might just be a selfish and/or entitled user but you'll forgive me for wanting Gitlab to be good. Don't you?
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#64Every next move by Gitlab makes them grow in my eyes, personaly. Few weeks ago I started using it as my main "portfolio", it's not much but I really like their way of thinking, openness and providing services. Their whole eco-system is looking really interesting right now, and I hope they will continue to advance and grow. Edits: typos, wrote from phone.
They definitely have a very interesting strategy, one that is well suited to their target market (= programmers). They're probably the most open company I've seen. Still, I can't justify moving off GitHub, for now. Gitlab has some growing left to do, especially on the SaaS part. Still, good luck to them :-)
Having never used GitLab, what do you mean by growing from a SaaS perspective?
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#65Does anyone have an insight into the differences between Slack, Mattermost, and Gitter? I have only ever used Slack before but it seems like Gitlab is already heavily invested with Mattermost. That makes me wonder what the future looks like for both Mattermost and Gitter. Are they different enough that they can both coexist without hurting either product or is one of them destined to be folded into the other in hopes…
They mention those in http://blog.gitter.im/2017/03/15/gitter-gitlab-acquisition/
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Slack is built on top of IRC Source? First time I hear that, and it seems unlikely, since they have quite a few features that don't fit nicely in stock IRC.
I’m not sure there are any Slack features that don’t fit into stock IRC v3. Basically everything they do is already supported or a draft. (Now just everyone has to implement it)
Now, possibly. But unless I'm totally wrong on the timeline, IRCv3 (not even talking about implementations) wasn't even close to that level when Slack started and thus is unlikely to be the base of their product. And even now, I wouldn't include v3 yet when talking about "stock IRC" in this context.
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#67I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab
It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#68This appears more like a acqui-hire. Also, since mattermost is bundled as part of GitLab, it makes me wonder why they didn't acquire mattermost instead.
This is good though because mattermost is open-source only on paper. They refuse to integrate important features even when people contribute code (to protect their commercial version).
Third, people see GitLab as GitHub competitor. But really it competes with Atlassian.
Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
#69Every next move by Gitlab makes them grow in my eyes, personaly. Few weeks ago I started using it as my main "portfolio", it's not much but I really like their way of thinking, openness and providing services. Their whole eco-system is looking really interesting right now, and I hope they will continue to advance and grow. Edits: typos, wrote from phone.
They definitely have a very interesting strategy, one that is well suited to their target market (= programmers). They're probably the most open company I've seen. Still, I can't justify moving off GitHub, for now. Gitlab has some growing left to do, especially on the SaaS part. Still, good luck to them :-)
"Gitlab has some growing left to do, especially on the SaaS part."
Some people (say, big companies) think exactly the opposite because they are after an on-prem solution, and for that Gitlab kicks Github's ass.
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