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Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by akerro »

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.

> Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order.

Not really. Why? Reddit is opensource but it'd damn hard to setup correctly and start your own instance.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by banashark »

I've really enjoyed Gitter as a better means of communications when I have questions that are small enough to not need their own issue, yet also not worth it to ask on SO or some other platform.

It has been nice to be able to have a nice way to talk with other open-source collaborators or get quick clarification on a small repo-specific question.

It's cool to see how it was put together.

Thanks for open sourcing this.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by Blahah »

romanovcode wrote: post #37
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.

Gitlab UI is the worst. I hope they do less features and just fix their god-awful UI for once!

Interesting (and rude). I think it's much better than any other group chat app. Especially for groups organised around code projects.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by romanovcode »

Blahah wrote: post #44
romanovcode wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gitlab UI is the worst. I hope they do less features and just fix their god-awful UI for once!

Interesting (and rude). I think it's much better than any other group chat app. Especially for groups organised around code projects.

I was talking about GitLab, not Gitter.

Yes it's rude, but I want to love GitLab - it's amazing. However I just can't bring myself over with this UI. It's just too bad and too unintuitive. Also slow.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by suprememoocow »

marmaduke wrote: post #31
suprememoocow wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, co-founder of Gitter here. Gitter is not intended to be a replacement for Mattermost, Slack or other team collaboration tools. We see Gitter as a community instead. As such, we're not expecting to see a huge uptake of on-site installations, so the list of required services (es, neo etc) is big compared to other products focused on on-prem. We're hoping that our users will contribute to the main site, Gitter.im. O…

> we would like it to be easy, ease-of-installation of a production instance is not a goal currently. ok but doesn't it behoove you anyway to have e.g. dockerfile and/or ansible roles for dev/staging environments?

We have a docker-compose.yml for development environments and I'm currently in the process of simplifying this[1] so that Docker for Mac/Windows will be able to spin up an environment with little effort.

We use ansible for provisioning beta/staging and production. We have yet to open source the ansible repository but, since we're switching to GitLab CI/CD, the deployment process will soon be publicly accessible - even for production.

1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/merge_requests/1... so that

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by suprememoocow »

corney91 wrote: post #33
marmaduke wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we would like it to be easy, ease-of-installation of a production instance is not a goal currently. ok but doesn't it behoove you anyway to have e.g. dockerfile and/or ansible roles for dev/staging environments?

They probably do have some sort of automation, but it's likely specific to their environment.

We use Ansible / packer & terraform. Open sourcing this repo will be fairly complicated but it may make more sense for us to publish a k8s helm chart or more complete, production-ready docker-compose.yml

Re: Gitter is open source

#49

Post by jacobvosmaer »

palerdot wrote: post #23

As an aside, I badly miss the Github language statistics in gitlab repositories. This is one of the crucial info for any developer browsing through new repos and it is very counter-intuitive to have this info hidden from homepage.

See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/graphs/master/ch...

I agree it's not very prominent. (GitLab Inc. developer)

Re: Gitter is open source

#50

Post by richardknop »

Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure.

Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make different parts of the page more easily distinguished.

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