Can this be setup without GitLab?
Also this looks a LOT like Slack. Any infringements?
Also this looks a LOT like Slack. Any infringements?
Only the docker install is pretty easy to do, doing it from source is pretty tedious, one of the reasons we will bundle it with GitLab.
It seems inspired by Slack but we think it is different enough and it will grow more different over time.
Can you elaborate more? Don't mean any disrespect, but this seems like a complete copy-paste of their interface.
In terms of messaging functionality, there's nothing ground-breaking about the UI, our focus is on avoiding what happened to SpinPunch when we were previously locked in to a proprietary SaaS messaging service: http://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-sou...
That said, Mattermost was originally designed to be a games portal (not just a messaging app), and you'll probably see the UI bring that functionality back in the "AppCenter" feature being developed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s6vrticxgz9PsxePQ-dFrsKp...
In summary, this probably isn't infringing unless they lifted the actual HTML from Slack or similar