[Kolab-devel] kolab and real-time communication (chat, etc)

[Aaron Seigo]

On Monday, November 21, 2016 21.53:51 Tobias Brunner wrote:
> That's exactly my concern about Mattermost too! Therefore we're
> currently using Rocket.Chat (https://rocket.chat/docs/) which looks and
> feels much more open. It connects well to the Kolab LDAP directory. 
> What
> are your concerns about Rocket.Chat?

While I had an account on their demo from .. I don't know how far back 
.. this is actuall one of the few options out there that we didn't look 
over, tbh. I've grabbed the repository to look at it now.

It's a Meteor app .. meh. But it is actively developed, looks pretty and 
certainly has a number of the "right" features.

Need to look at the integration, multi-tennant, and scalability stories. 
Will do so today.

> And then there is Matrix which looks like to be the new federated chat
> protocol: http://matrix.org/. It features the nice looking Riot
> messaging app: https://riot.im/. What do you think about Matrix? Why 
> not
> base the new Kolab IM on this protocol and re-use/integrate Synapse
> (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse)?

I've gone over synapse in some depth and my concerns for it are a mix 
of:

  * still unproven and has low adoption (so using it has limited benefit 
to us)
  * python and scalability ...
  * still rapidly chaging .. a moving target is a bit hard

That said, it would be quite plausible to support the matrix API after 
the fact. Other projects have done this as well. So while synapse may be 
of low interest, the protocol may yet be of interest. It isn't a pretty 
API, but what's new, right? :)

XMPP remains higher priority as there is "actual" demand for it 
currently.

-- 
Aaron Seigo