[storrgie]

can you comment on the vision that gitlab as a product would have in the future for integration with gitter/matrix?

We're running a decent sized gitlab+mattermost instance now, we're using mattermost guests to pull in collaborators from upstream. It would be overall a lot easier if we were using something like matrix where it's federated and we can bring people in to our homeserver without having to make accounts for them.

[sytse]

That sounds like a great use case and we would welcome Matrix support in GitLab. Adding this isn't on our company roadmap so it would have to be a contribution. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22996 for a related but not quite the same suggestion.

[ptman]

Oh, right, please get rid of mattermost and replace it with matrix/gitter