[Beowulf] User notification of new software on the cluster

[Remy Dernat]

Le 07/10/2016 à 04:50, Brian Oborn a écrit :
> I have to give a shout-out to Rocket.Chat as the platform that my dev 
> group eventually settled on for messaging. We were put off by the cost 
> of Slack and fed up with XMPP, but Rocket.Chat has been working great 
> for us as a free alternative. We're even looking to use it for our 
> internal videoconferencing.
>

We installed mattermost recently which is already plug to our gitlab, 
but we did not try it deeply. However, I think it has about the same 
capabilties as slack ot rocket and our users can login through gitlab 
(our gitlab server is connected to our LDAP, as our clusters / same 
accounts).

Remy

> Brian Oborn
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Christopher Samuel 
> <samuel at unimelb.edu.au <mailto:samuel at unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
>
>     On 29/09/16 21:03, John Hanks wrote:
>
>     > Acknowledging that this is an area where personal preference and
>     > existing culture play a very big role in what works for any given
>     > group/environment, I'll attempt an answer noting how this works
>     for us.
>     > Warning: I'm prone to ranting...
>
>     Thanks so much for the background there!
>
>     Agree with an awful lot of what you say there, the only proviso I have
>     from our end is that we have 0 budget for that so we'd need to
>     stick to
>     the free version so permanence of messages could be an issue.
>
>     But, having said that, I found out yesterday that an on-staff
>     scientist
>     had set up a Slack for our users already.  He's not got any
>     interest in
>     it yet because it's not been advertised, but I reckon now I know about
>     it I might chat to him when I'm back from leave about giving it a
>     proper go.
>
>     ...and yes, whoever thought up ITIL never had to deal with people who
>     keep saying "can you install this software from git - just whatever is
>     master at the moment please".. :-)
>
>     cheers,
>     Chris
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Rémy Dernat
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