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GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by scrollaway »

daxelrod wrote: post #11
scrollaway wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all Consider me part of the crowd that is very interested. Travis is atrociously bad. Jenkins I've heard some good things about but I have mostly negative experiences with it. Alternatives are needed. And something like gitlab would sorely lack if it didn't have CI integration.

Could you expand on what you hate about Travis? I'm in the process of picking a CI system and haven't found too many negatives about Travis yet.

Admittedly, when self-hosted some of these may go away, but here are a few that come to mind.

* General awfulness when it comes to packages. Outdated packages. Nonstandard packages. Ubuntu, instead of debian + testing, is a terrible choice for a CI.

* Horrible support for multilingual builds. God forbid if you have Python 3 scripts in your go project.

* With github, force-pushing during a build causes the build to error and travis can't detect that

* Lots of papercut issues in the UI

* There's always something when setting it up on a project that makes me end up fighting with it and figuring out crazy workarounds for it for several hours.

There's a lot more, though most of them have to do with point #1 and their choice of Ubuntu as a platform. I don't remember the rest.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by sytse »

mdk754 wrote: post #19
vessenes wrote: post #6

Congratulations. I was just remarking at work that Gitlab is awesome. It's an open source project that 100% does what it says on the tin; we downloaded and installed, and haven't had to worry about it since.

Agreed. They are a shining example of what I look for in a commercial company building an open source product. Self-hosted, community edition with no fundamental deficiencies, hackable, and a CEO with more 3rd party presence (he's always on here in the comments) than anyone could ever ask for. I only wish it were written in something which compiles native, like C or Go. Not bad enough to switch to anything else howev…

Thanks for all the kind words!

We love the speed of Go. That is why with GitLab 8.0 we'll make gitlab-git-http-server the default way to clone repositories. For CI the runner that executes the tests https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner is already written on Go so it is portable and installs without dependencies.

We expect that for the majority of the functionality a high level language will continue to be the best choice. Personally I'm watching Elixir and its Phoenix framework that are very fast. But for the foreseeable future we're very happy with Ruby and Rails.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by sytse »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #12
umziehennachbar wrote: post #10

free private repos? is this a limited time offer or something you'll stand by forever? how many repos?

They've had this for a while now and is one of the main reasons I ended up using GitLab for some of my side projects. I don't think this is going away I think it's just another part of their business model.

It is, our on-premises income is more than enough to pay for GitLab.com. We might introduce more paid plans in the future but I don't expect you'll ever have to pay for the things we offer for free now.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by TheSockStealer »

scrollaway wrote: post #4
yarper wrote: post #3

Maybe with this 4M they can stop producing workflow crushing bugs. I'm getting a bit tired of explaining to my boss why first he can't search the code because our repo is too big, then search doesn't work in firefox, then when he gets through the diff/file is too large (we've only recently seen the syntax highlighting start to work too). Then after someone does the work, then they can't assign the MR because of glitc…

> Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all Consider me part of the crowd that is very interested. Travis is atrociously bad. Jenkins I've heard some good things about but I have mostly negative experiences with it. Alternatives are needed. And something like gitlab would sorely lack if it didn't have CI integration.

We are definitely interested as well. - Open-source (check) - Self-hosted (check) - Integrates with GitLab (check)

We do run Jenkins currently for some projects, but nobody is really happy with it. Sure, it gets the job done, but not the easiest software to work with.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by jonesb6 »

daxelrod wrote: post #11
scrollaway wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all Consider me part of the crowd that is very interested. Travis is atrociously bad. Jenkins I've heard some good things about but I have mostly negative experiences with it. Alternatives are needed. And something like gitlab would sorely lack if it didn't have CI integration.

Could you expand on what you hate about Travis? I'm in the process of picking a CI system and haven't found too many negatives about Travis yet.

I just went through the same process for my team, settled on CircleCI because the pricing structure fit our needs. We're still newish to CI in general so we might be wearing blinders but it's fit our needs so far.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by [deleted] »

daxelrod wrote: post #11
scrollaway wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all Consider me part of the crowd that is very interested. Travis is atrociously bad. Jenkins I've heard some good things about but I have mostly negative experiences with it. Alternatives are needed. And something like gitlab would sorely lack if it didn't have CI integration.

Could you expand on what you hate about Travis? I'm in the process of picking a CI system and haven't found too many negatives about Travis yet.

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Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by sytse »

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #14

So this is a little bit "in the weeds" but with the seed round closing back in July for $1.5 million why such a short turnaround for the series A? Is this normal? Considering it probably takes at least a month to close out a round does that mean GitLab went back out to fund raise only a month after their $1.5 million investment? Not trying to be critical or anything I'm just really curious.

Khosla invested in our seed round and we kept talking with them. They are a great investor so we are happy they wanted to do our A round. So we raised an A earlier than we expected beforehand. We still haven't touched the seed money, in our last month we were cash-flow positive. But I'm happy we did a priced round and can focus on growing knowing we have enough cash.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by sytse »

TheSockStealer wrote: post #25
scrollaway wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all Consider me part of the crowd that is very interested. Travis is atrociously bad. Jenkins I've heard some good things about but I have mostly negative experiences with it. Alternatives are needed. And something like gitlab would sorely lack if it didn't have CI integration.

We are definitely interested as well. - Open-source (check) - Self-hosted (check) - Integrates with GitLab (check) We do run Jenkins currently for some projects, but nobody is really happy with it. Sure, it gets the job done, but not the easiest software to work with.

Cool, we hope that GitLab CI will be very usable. Due to the integration it will be easy to set up for a project. We're aiming for zero config: 'just add a .gitlab-ci.yml file'. And the yml file http://doc.gitlab.com/ci/yaml/README.html makes it very easy to collaborate on how a project should be tested https://about.gitlab.com/2015/05/06/why-were-replacing-gitla...
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