Gitter is open source

#1

Post by _ugfj » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 7:56 AM UTC

Gitter is open source
gitlab.com

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#2

Post by mkesper » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:21 AM UTC

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

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#3

Post by akerro » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:23 AM UTC

mkesper wrote: post #2

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

Gitter is one of the most popular chat room services that was based on github repositories and authentication, but was bought by their competitor - gitlab.

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Post by thangngoc89 » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:23 AM UTC

mkesper wrote: post #2

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

Gitter[1] is a chat service integrated with Github. They was acquired by Gitlab a few months ago

  [1] http://gitter.im/

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#5

Post by crisispalar » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:24 AM UTC

mkesper wrote: post #2

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

Yes they should have at least added the website url which is btw. http://gitter.im

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:27 AM UTC

mkesper wrote: post #2

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

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#7

Post by volent » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:28 AM UTC

If you go through the commit history you can see that they removed a lot of secret keys from the repo.

What if the main reason why people don't want to opensource their project is because they don't know how to use their secret keys without including them in the repo ?

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#8

Post by siliconc0w » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:31 AM UTC

Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order. Mattermost just needs (AFAIK) a relational database.

Also, less relevant but the Gitlab UI has far too much wasted whitespace. Like 85% of the page is navigation. I like open source competitors to incumbents but maybe just copy Github here - no one is gonna say anything.

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Post by mydigitalself » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:32 AM UTC

mkesper wrote: post #2

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

Great point. We "soft launched" this yesterday so are still working on the documentation and hadn't made any official announcement yet until we've ironed out in any kinks.

Looks like HN announced it for us...

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Post by teen » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 8:36 AM UTC

siliconc0w wrote: post #8

Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order. Mattermost just needs (AFAIK) a relational database. Also, less relevant but the Gitlab UI has far too much wasted whitespace. Like 85% of the page is navigation. I like open source competitors to incumbents but maybe just copy Github here - no one is gonna say anything.

A relational database is overkill. My BBCode-enabled chatroom runs off txt files.