Chat funtionality for Gogs

[shytikov]

Hi,

This is not an issue, or problem I'm facing, but rather idea I want to share with community, and looking forward to discuss it somewhere.

It looks like, Gogs more or less clones functionality of GitHub and tries to be as close as possible to its bigger brother. But maybe we can make one step further and implement great piece of functionality, that actually is not present in GitHub out of the box?

I'm talking about chat integrated with repository issues, source code, users, and so on. Yes, definitely, Slack integration is possible for Gogs, and it does the job. But Slack is not that perfect... For example, free accounts have very unpleasant limitation of number of messages you can access. Free accounts also have limitation on number of integrations enabled. And main thing, Slack integrates with GitHub far worse than Gitter, for example.

Gitter integrates seamlessly. All links to a code automatically shortened, if they was long, hash becomes link, issue number becomes link, repositories become rooms automatically. Formatting rules mimicking GitHub without exceptions, and cherry on top of the pie — IRC access out of the box for everything.

I think it would be nice to have such functionality as part of Gogs straight after installation. I believe it definitely piece of work, but community will benefit from such a functionality and this feature could become selling point for Gogs comparing with competitors like GitLab and GitHub.

What do you think?

P.S. I'm not a Go guy now, but I can quickly catch up, and I would love to become part of the group who will be implementing this feature.

[andreynering]

Seems like this is another case for a plugin system: #2438

[xor-gate]

Probably you should look at Mattermost (also written in Golang). In my opinion this is not something a source-code platform should support. Mattermost could have some integration with Gogs as a Mattermost plugin.

Interessting is the mattertee tool which can post directly to Mattermost channels.

[bkcsoft]

@xor-gate Mattermost is Slack-compatible, so unless we wanna support some MM-specific thing we don't need a separate plugin/webhook for it 💯

[xor-gate]

I did know MM was a alternative for Slack but I did not have clue it is compatible. As you say, MM-specific things should go in a separate implementation when needed.

[kolaente]

What about a very simple chatroom-feature? (Like basecamp is doing with their campfire-thing)