But… stirring the pot can be a good thing, else the food sticks at the bottom of the pot and burns…
Mattermost is at its simplest, a team discussion and collaboration environment. There are the features of Mattermost:
Mattermost provides:
* group chat
* direct messaging
* private chat rooms
* messages, comments and description fields
* a wide range of font formatting, headings, tables, and image embedding options
* full markdown support
* hashtags
* Auto-highlight messages you wrote – to easily see what you said
* file uploads - Share files and images internally and externally
* archiving and search (including search by hashtag)
* search public and private channels for historical messages and comments
* view recent mentions of your name, username, nickname
* support for multilingual teams
* comment threads for easy-to-follow conversations.
* personalize notifications for unread messages and mentions by source
* Access anywhere: clients available for computers and mobile devices - attach sound, video and image files from mobile device
* email interaction (through Mattermail)
* IRC bridge (does anyone still use IRC? I haven’t in ages…)
and also, in our particular case:
* Eclipse project infrastructure for Mattermost (RSS, Git, Gerrit, Bugzilla, Eclipse Forums, Twitter, Mailing Lists, Jenkins/Hudson)
A lot of this can be done by email, but not everything.
I personally think it would be worth it to get off mail for this type of collaboration.