Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#1

Post by jobvandervoort » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 12:22 PM UTC

Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
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Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#2

Post by jobvandervoort » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 12:57 PM UTC

As always, if anyone has any questions, we're here.

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#3

Post by vezzy-fnord » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:02 PM UTC

Announcement itself is fine. The way you contrast "open" with "proprietary" is a bit jarring. It should be free versus proprietary, but if you find that undesirable, then just go with open/closed.

EDIT: Quite predictably, I got downvoted for asking people to use proper terminology and for promoting free software.

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#4

Post by scrollaway » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

jobvandervoort wrote: post #2

As always, if anyone has any questions, we're here.

Well done guys. I've been thinking about completely open models for a while now; we have a similar model at work (on FOSS as well).

I'm a hardcore Github fan but I'm really impressed with what you've all been doing. The more I see your work, the more I want to switch.

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#5

Post by athoik » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

What about security issues?

Those will be in public too? Or you should contact by email when you have a security issue.

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#6

Post by _pmf_ » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:09 PM UTC

It's hard to compete against GitHub. I hope they will get some traction so we have an alternative to GitHub once it gets bought by MS (and becomes the next SourceForge).

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#7

Post by dewey » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

athoik wrote: post #5

What about security issues? Those will be in public too? Or you should contact by email when you have a security issue.

"Sensitive issues, such as security issues with GitLab, will still be handled internally. We’ll create tracking issues for these on the public issue trackers that don’t contain exploitable information."

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#8

Post by aardshark » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:13 PM UTC

So if customers want to contribute to fixes for issues they raise, is there a an easy way for them to do that without revealing who they are?

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#9

Post by davexunit » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:15 PM UTC

This article uses a bit of openwashing to make "publicly viewable source code" seem "open". It's not. It's proprietary.

Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open

#10

Post by jobvandervoort » Fri, Aug 07, 2015, 1:19 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #9

This article uses a bit of openwashing to make "publicly viewable source code" seem "open". It's not. It's proprietary.

It is, we don't intent to be vague about this. I hadn't heard of the term openwashing, but I understand the criticism.

See also our license for our proprietary GitLab Enterprise Edition: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE

And the license for our open source GitLab Community Edition (MIT Expat): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE