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Re:Slack is down by ourcat on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:40PM (#25634949)
My point was really that it's GitLab's own product. "GitLab Mattermost" [https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/gitlab-mattermost/]

I'm amazed they use Slack at all. Let alone as a fallback.

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Re:Slack is down by OJFord on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:52PM (#25635138)
No I'm pretty sure that's just a sort of 'integration', Mattermost shipped with GitLab?

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/08/18/gitlab-loves-matter...

> Like many companies in the last year we've switched to using Slack to improve internal communication. [...] Since Slack doesn't offer an on-premises version, we searched for other options. We found Mattermost to be the leading open source Slack-alternative and suggested a collaboration to the Mattermost team.

I'm not really sure why it's 'GitLab Mattermost' and not (at your link) 'GitLab Nginx' et al. though.

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Re:Slack is down by ourcat on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:17PM (#25635556)
Ah I see now, having read more of the history. Calling it that seems pretty misleading/odd.

(We use GitLab and Mattermost (integration) where I work. I've been 'remote / WFH' for the past 7 years.)

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Re:Slack is down by sytse on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:12PM (#25636372)
I agree it can be improved and created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/-/merge_request... to do so.
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Re:Slack is down by tempest_ on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:55PM (#25635188)
They posted a giant list of the services they use recently.

They use a ton of services.

Likely you don't want your backup to be one of your systems and another part of the company probably uses Zoom already so it is probably easy to fail over to that.

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Re:Slack is down by sytse on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:01PM (#25635284)
Here is the list of services that we use https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/business-ops/tech-stack/

This includes many proprietary ones, we generally choose the product that will work best for us, considering the benefits of open source, but not excluding proprietary software.

Mattermost is not part of the single application that GitLab is. There is a good integration between with GitLab and our Omnibus installer allows you to easily install it. But it is a separate application from a separate company.

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Re:Slack is down by dvdbloc on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:14PM (#25636404)
Or use mattermost with Slack as the fallback
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