Zulip group chat

rchar01 · May 17, 2018, 10:15am

Hello,
is it planned to integrate Metabase with free and open group chat application, e.g. Zulip?

This is especially important for enterprises / users relying on free software infrastructure. Zulip is free (as in freedom, Apache 2.0 license) software alternative to Slack with few additional features.

https://zulipchat.com/hello/
https://github.com/zulip/zulip

— Robert

maz · May 17, 2018, 4:28pm

Hi, Robert. No, Zulip integration is not on our roadmap currently, but we do accept external contributions to Metabase if you’re so inclined. See this guide for more details about contributing to Metabase:

github.com

metabase/metabase/blob/master/docs/contributing.md

## Thank you

First off, thanks for your interest in Metabase and for wanting to contribute!

In this guide, we'll discuss how Metabase is built. This should give you a good sense of our process and where you might want to fit in.

## What we're trying to build

Metabase is all about letting non-technical users get access to the their organization's data. We're trying to maximize the amount of power that can be comfortably used by someone who understands their business, is quantitatively bent, but probably only comfortable with Excel.

It's important to keep in mind these goals of the Metabase project. Many times
proposals will be marked "Out of Scope" or otherwise deprioritized. This doesn't mean the proposal isn't useful, or that we wouldn't be interested in seeing it done as a side project or as an experimental branch. However, it does mean that we won't point the core team or contributors to it in the near term. Issues that are slightly out of scope will be kept open in case there is community support (and ideally contributions).

To get a sense for the end goals, make sure to read the [Zen of Metabase](../zen.md)

## Our product process:

The core team runs a pretty well defined product process. It is actively being tweaked, but the below is a pretty faithful description of it at the time of writing. You should have a clear idea of how we work before jumping in with a PR.

### A) Identify product needs from the community

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If this feature is an absolute must-have for your organization, you might also consider sponsoring this feature: