So, how long will it take (approximate) to complete the mentioned process ?
Also, I think that matrix ecosystem will grow from this move.
Gitter is joining Matrix
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Re: Gitter is joining Matrix
#12From the Matrix side, we're ridiculously happy to have the opportunity to defragment developer chat a bit, and get folks on Gitter natively talking to folks elsewhere on Matrix (including bridged to IRC, Slack, Discord or whatever). The fragmentation of FOSS development chat into proprietary silos a few years back was incredibly depressing, and this is our attempt to put right what once went wrong :) Happy to try to…
Don't know if you have access to the Gitter side but as of now, the blog post is 404ing https://blog.gitter.im/gitter-element-acquisition/
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#13Congratulations to Element ! Gitter is a fantastic platform . Are we possibly going to see Gitter become a reference open source implementation of Matrix ?
Re: Gitter is joining Matrix
#14From the Matrix side, we're ridiculously happy to have the opportunity to defragment developer chat a bit, and get folks on Gitter natively talking to folks elsewhere on Matrix (including bridged to IRC, Slack, Discord or whatever). The fragmentation of FOSS development chat into proprietary silos a few years back was incredibly depressing, and this is our attempt to put right what once went wrong :) Happy to try to…
Don't know if you have access to the Gitter side but as of now, the blog post is 404ing https://blog.gitter.im/gitter-element-acquisition/
The correct URL is https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition...
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#15GitLab hasn't been giving it any attention. All they need is a checkmark in their portfolio.
Yes, shame GitLab didn't integrate Gitter natively into public projects same way issues and roadmaps are integrated.
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#16This is great news. I've used Gitter for communication in some open source projects, and have always found certain things painful. My favorite points from the article are;
- Improving iOS and Android apps. At least in the iOS case, the experience is abysmal (the web interface is similarly so)
- Replacement of the matrix-appservice-gitter bridge. I've used the Matrix Gitter bridge for some time now but there's much left to be desired, such as proper edit and deletion of messages to and from the services.
Overall, it's great to see less future fragmentation in the chat systems developers use, reminds me of the XKCD comic[0] and a modification showing the matrix.org bridges[1]
Re: Gitter is joining Matrix
#17It is not obvious from the title but Element is actually acquiring Gitter. Quote from the article: > In practice, the way this is happening is that Element (the company founded by the Matrix core team to fund Matrix development) is acquiring Gitter from GitLab, with a combined Gitter and Element dev team focusing on giving Gitter a new life in Matrix! There is also another blogpost from the elements side https://elem…
Talk about burying the lead. That wasn’t mentioned in the matrix blog post at all. Only that Gitter would be using matrix natively. Doesn’t matter either way but weird to not mention it.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't know if you have access to the Gitter side but as of now, the blog post is 404ing https://blog.gitter.im/gitter-element-acquisition/
The correct URL is https://blog.gitter.im/2020/09/30/gitter-element-acquisition...
oops, Ghost fail; fixed now :)
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#19I'm massively rooting for this. I really wanted to use Gitter as the official chat for my projects, but the experience was just so painful that I ended up fragmenting the community across Discord and a gated Slack. I would love to have a forever home where I can feel comfortable getting everyone on board.
Re: Gitter is joining Matrix
#20It is not obvious from the title but Element is actually acquiring Gitter. Quote from the article: > In practice, the way this is happening is that Element (the company founded by the Matrix core team to fund Matrix development) is acquiring Gitter from GitLab, with a combined Gitter and Element dev team focusing on giving Gitter a new life in Matrix! There is also another blogpost from the elements side https://elem…
Talk about burying the lead. That wasn’t mentioned in the matrix blog post at all. Only that Gitter would be using matrix natively. Doesn’t matter either way but weird to not mention it.
The lede is that Gitter is going to natively federate with Matrix. The fact Element bought Gitter is there in the matrix blog post:
> In practice, the way this is happening is that Element (the company founded by the Matrix core team to fund Matrix development) is acquiring Gitter from GitLab.