SourceTalk (source code discussion service): release

A long-awaited event for SourceTalk happened yesterday: finally a full release was released. For those who hear about the project for the first time or have already managed to forget: SourceTalk is a service for discussing source codes in real time, according to the initial idea - something like Campfire or HipChat for developers, but maybe you already managed to get acquainted with a closer analogue released last year - Gitter . You can read about the difficult path traveled in two years of development from prototype to release in my article on Megamind . Here I will describe only the current functionality.

What does SourceTalk do at the time of release?

• Chat with the ability to view the source code and synchronize the selection and scrolling between users
• Integration with GitHub: a discussion file can be added to the conference directly from the repository
• Integration with code editors: you can also add a file directly from the editor (at the moment only Sublime Text 2/3)
• Support for Markdown extended syntax in chat (differences: URLs are automatically converted to a link, URLs with an image address - to a link with an image, single line break corresponds to hyphenation, not space)

Attention : currently, you can only create open conferences that have access only to open repositories on GitHub. This functionality is completely free and will always be free to encourage open source development.

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What is planned to add in the near future?

1. The most important thing: paid subscriptions and the ability to create private conferences (with access to private repositories on GitHub)
2. Additional plugins for IDE and code editors: in the nearest plans are plugins for Emacs, Vim, Eclipse and NetBeans (in fact, all of them were already released before, but due to the change in the API, the old versions do not work at the moment)
3. A large number of less noticeable improvements.

Since after the introduction of a paid subscription project loses the opportunity to maintain a free corporate blog on Habré, most likely this is the last entry in this blog.



Any questions and comments are traditionally welcome.