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Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta
- michaelmior 13y agoIs there any way to join a chat for a public repository which you are not a contributor to?
- trevorah 13y agoIf that chat has already been created, then going to gitter.im/[org]/[repo] should be enough.
- mydigitalself 13y agoHi all, For more information: http://blog.gitter.im/gitter-public-beta/ http://blog.gitter.im/gitter-public-beta/ Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us with comments/feedback.
- bovermyer 13y agoThis is actually pretty cool. I'd be curious to see how well it's adopted, though, since the majority of dev chat that I see occurs in IRC.
- trevorah 13y agoYeah, we're currently building an irc bridge so that you can use it with your irc client of choice.
- guptaneil 13y agoLooks nice, but what's the value prop over something like HipChat, which already integrates with a lot of different services? For example, we currently use HipChat and feed in GitHub, New Relic, AirBrake, and CircleCI notifications into HipChat. How will Gitter improve that workflow?
- mydigitalself 13y agohi @guptaneil, we provide a much deeper level of integration with GitHub, and also have integrations with Travis, Jenkins, Trello and are working on more. our issue mentioning and markdown are two really great features built for developers. there are a few other advantages, for one we handle both free open source projects as well as private conversations. so you can have all of your chat in one place. for people adopting a new chat programme, inheriting your "social graph" in the form of your org members and repos you belong to/watch/star also means that getting up and running with gitter is really fast and simple.
- facorreia 13y agoIt's an interesting concept and could provide an alternative to IRC for GitHub projects. I've subscribed with an account I created specifically for Gitter. I definitely won't grant the level of access to my account that Gitter asks for currently[1]. [1] https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authenticating-with-GitHub https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...
- mydigitalself 13y agoYou mean just the basic level @facorreia?
- facorreia 13y agoI mean wanting write access over all kind of things. Just say no. https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200178971-You-want-write-access-on-my-private-repos-Are-you-insane- https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200178971-You-w...
- emillon 13y agoDo you know if something similar exists for mailing lists? ie for every github project you get a project mailing list to discuss development on a higher level than individual bug reports.
- trevorah 13y agoSo something a little more formal than chat?
- emillon 13y agoWith longer messages and asynchronous, so basically email. It seems to me that mailing lists solve a different problem than chat or bug trackers. They allow to discuss about the project itself, which is necessary if you have > 1 main dev. That's something that sourceforge did and github does not, probably by design. Maybe something like discourse could work for that.
- podviaznikov 13y agosomething like this http://ost.io/ http://ost.io/? More than year ago I had idea of creating mailing list hosted in Git itself. Made some prototype - https://github.com/communities/gitcommunities.com https://github.com/communities/gitcommunities.com.
- emillon 13y agoSounds interesting. I'll have a look at this. Thanks!
- kevinatari 13y agoBeen using Gitter with my Dev Group for a few weeks and we all love it and switched completely to it as our main Chat. It's worth a try and the integration of services like Trello and - for sure - Github is just great! Also Auto-Embedded Links (YouTube, SoundCloud, images (jpg, png, gif)). Really love it and I'm looking forward to the apps. :)
- myersgp 13y agoThis is one of those ideas that seems so obvious. The solution looks great and the interface is solid. By the way, I'm +1 on emillon's mailing list idea
- davexunit 13y agoDitch IRC for a proprietary web application? No thanks.
- mydigitalself 13y agowe're actually working on an IRC bridge. always interested in this position though. it's far more feature rich than IRC, in our opinion a better experience.
- dimadima 13y agoIRC, check it out!
- schmavery 13y agoOffice Space references always a nice touch!
- mydigitalself 13y ago:) I spent hours making that screenshot
- martiuk 13y agoAny word on either a. an android client or b. an API to make an android client with?
- mydigitalself 13y agoBoth are on the radar, but not sure on timing yet.
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- ixmatus 13y agoThe upside of IRC is not having to have so many different applications to chat with all the different people. If I can use XChat for this, that would be bad-ass. Also, one important feature I think would be crucial is integrating with Google Chat (if you can). All developers use IRC or HipChat or Kato but then I have to deal with the buggers in the rest of my company that like to use GChat!
- mydigitalself 13y agowe're busy working on IRC integration right now!
- ixmatus 13y agoAwesome, I definitely like this concept a lot and the other commenter's reply about a mailing list would go very well with this concept.
- tvon 13y agoThat's one hell of an authorization request. I see the reasoning in the sidebar, but I'm not really willing to take that kind of chance to try out a new chat service.
- mydigitalself 13y agohttps://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authenticating-with-GitHub https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...
- skywhopper 13y agoUntil Github provides a more granular permission API, no one should be using this service. Doesn't matter what they promise. Mistakes happen.
- facorreia 13y agoI agree. This makes them a huge hacking target. I hope they're not using Rails, to boot.