Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

Re:Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip by lwf on Friday September 25, 2015 @04:46PM (#10280579)

We have both already :)

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/bots/jabber_mirro... https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/bots/irc-mirror.p...

In addition to Zephyr mirroring, which we've had since 2012.

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Re:Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip by scrollaway on Friday September 25, 2015 @04:53PM (#10280613)

Hurray \o/ Congrats on the release!

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Re:Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip by lwf on Friday September 25, 2015 @05:30PM (#10280817)

Thanks :)

To dive a bit deeper, while XMPP/IRC exists, and it wouldn't be hard to make the Zulip server natively speak XMPP to clients, that in-and-of-itself wouldn't be quite useful. A message sent to stream "ops" with topic "prod deploy" might look like this†:

  <message
      from='[email protected]/ops'
      id='162BEBB1-F6DB-4D9A-9BD8-CFDCC801A0B2'
      to='[email protected]/broom'
      type='groupchat'>
    <subject>prod deploy</subject>
    <body>Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.</body>
    <delay xmlns='urn:xmpp:delay'
       from='[email protected]'
       stamp='2002-10-13T23:58:37Z'/>
    <addresses xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/address'>
      <address type='ofrom' jid='[email protected]/desktop'/>
    </addresses>
  </message>

But there aren't any existing clients that have the UI to:

1. Show per-message subjects/topics in a meaningful way

2. Allow users to easily reply to a message preserving the subject

So we'd need client changes to make it truly useful.

†: Adapted from syntax specified in XEP-0045

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