[hossen]

GitLab, a startup that provides open source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that provides chat rooms that are attached to repositories of code so that collaborators can exchange messages. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

[owebmaster]

They announced the acquisition in March¹. Back then they also announced that gitter would be open source so now they released it.

1. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/15/gitter-acquisition/