[dksidana]

It will be great if they add communication tool like slack/hipchat in their master plan.

Reason, I am asking for this, it that I see such tools have critical to do development these days. gitter has already shown initial success/value of integrating with SCM.

[kossae]

They actually already offer a tight integration with Mattermost: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost

[dksidana]

Agreed but looks like GitLab is trying to avoid integration route in favour of building that component in the product itself.

[sytse]

We're not planning on building a chat client in GitLab. We think Mattermost is awesome and it is part of our Omnibus package. We're working on better chatops/chatbot integration with Cog https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/1412