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Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by lamlam »

suprememoocow wrote: post #119
lamlam wrote: post #118

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The biggest problem I have with something like this is that unlike SO the answers aren't archived for others who may have the same issue. It would be nice if discussions like this on Gitter could be archived and searched the way mailing lists are.

All public rooms are archived and searchable: https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter/archives/all https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter/archives/2017/06/14 I agree that chat isn't as digestible as SO, but it is definitely archived.

Right, I meant more in a Q&A fashion with perpendicular discussion like with SA. But I'm happy to see there is an archive. I've had decade old Mozilla bug reports save me more than once.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by pritambaral »

heartbreak wrote: post #111
jononor wrote: post #35

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If people check in their node_modules, that's a good sign to stay away from the project.

What? Why? Why shouldn't I be able to run my entire application without relying on 3rd party distribution channels? Caching my dependencies in node_modules is perfectly reasonable to me. It's not like I'm getting binary diffs. It's Javascript.

> Why shouldn't I be able to run my entire application without relying on 3rd party distribution channels?

You should. That does not mean you should host source code and build output together.

> Caching my dependencies in node_modules is perfectly reasonable to me.

Precisely. That's caching. Not source hosting.

> It's not like I'm getting binary diffs. It's Javascript.

Binary node modules aren't uncommon, BTW.

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Of course, you could be using git for more than source hosting, and I think that's precisely what your parent was commenting about.

Re: Gitter is open source

#126

Post by hossen »

GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that provides chat rooms that are attached to repositories of code so that collaborators can exchange messages. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Re: Gitter is open source

#128

Post by svesselov »

romanovcode wrote: post #114
hueving wrote: post #97

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This type of feedback is almost completely useless for a project. "the worst", "too bad", and "unintuitive" are not actionable so if you really want to help a project then describe concrete issues.

I'm not an UI/UX expert but a back-end developer. I cannot give you more feedback then this.

"I'm not an UI/UX expert but a back-end developer."

This actually makes you the perfect candidate for giving us good feedback. You may not be able to articulate exactly why UI elements feel off or don't work for you, but you know they could be better. If you are interested, you can join our UX Research Panel to help us pinpoint areas we can improve. We want you to love GitLab too :)

https://about.gitlab.com/researchpanel/

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by owebmaster »

hossen wrote: post #126

GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that provides chat rooms that are attached to repositories of code so that collaborators can exchange messages. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

They announced the acquisition in March¹. Back then they also announced that gitter would be open source so now they released it.

1. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/15/gitter-acquisition/

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