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As pointed out in another comment, there are no tests. Developer confidence doesn't matter at that point. You can help them out at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/467

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Thanks. I realize how premature my wish is but unfortunately not in my qualifications to help on the project. Modern group chat and Kanban are two apps my users desperately want and I can't deliver unless I capitulate to our cloud overlords, such a sad state of the industry.

Wouldn't Mattermost solve the group chat issue for you?

This sentiment is what's sad. You appear to want something good, free and quick. Life is all about picking 2. Accept that and be happy.

Who said I wanted it to be free? I'm also in France and our clients don't want us to manage their projects on American servers.

You can get a self hosted HipChat for the group chat.

We've had a pilot for 6 months, users stopped using it. Something's fishy with the HipChat team. They've been asked to fix iPhone notifications[0] for more than a year now and all I see is new emoticons and silly features. Nobody with an iPhone can use HipChat, no wonder everyone went to Slack. Smells like internal sabotage, crazy stuff really.

[0]https://help.hipchat.com/forums/138883-suggestions-ideas/sug...

> Modern group chat [...]

There's another great Meteor project named Rocket Chat that you should check out...

https://rocket.chat/

We've tried them all and unfortunately none of them are ready for prime time. Rocket chat and Mattermost are the ones I'm the most looking forward to, looks like they should be ready in a few months. HipChat Server looks ready but it's not, way too many problems they're not willing to address for whatever reasons.

Did you document your issues somewhere publicly? (blog post?) A good comparison of the options would be interesting to have, since the topic seems to come up quite often.

I haven't but it's a good idea.

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