Description
- https://chat.fixme.ch
- Chatting at fixme, using a slack-like application
Goal
- Initial goal was to get out of slack
- The other goal is to have a userfriendly chat, better than IRC (which still have its use cases of course)
Component
- Mattermost: http://www.mattermost.org/
- Bot: https://hubot.github.com/
- Hosted on an Openstack cloud instance
Upgrade
# ssh root@chat.fixme.ch
systemctl stop mattermost
autopostgresqlbackup
ls -l /var/lib/autopostgresqlbackup/daily/mattermost/
su - chat
# Get the TEAM edition (not the enterprise version)
# VERSION from http://about.mattermost.com/download/
cd mattermost
VERSION=3.6.2
OLDVERSION=$(/home/chat/mattermost/bin/platform version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}')
cd
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/$VERSION/mattermost-team-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz
mv mattermost mattermost-$OLDVERSION
tar xvf mattermost-team-$VERSION-linux-amd64.tar.gz
rsync -a ./mattermost-$OLDVERSION/config/ ./mattermost/config/
exit
setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /home/chat/mattermost/bin/platform
systemctl start mattermost
tail -F /home/chat/mattermost/logs/mattermost.log
Channel naming convention
- 10_* = general/association
- 20_* = events
- 30_* = projects/topics
- 40_* = other
- 99_* = archived channels