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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by matheweis »

sytse wrote: post #2

GitLab CEO here. Awesome to see this article! Ask me anything.

Concerned about the long term implications of the high growth startup model... Gitlab is awesome and all that, but how can I be sure the free version will stay that way in the long run?

Is the free (free as in beer, I'm not an open source zealot otherwise) Gitlab not just a part of the conversion funnel, eventually made unsustainable once growth plateaus?

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by carussell »

sytse wrote: post #2

GitLab CEO here. Awesome to see this article! Ask me anything.

I'm patiently waiting for you all to decide to focus your main interest on making gitlab.com the best place to host open source projects, while the GitLab EE/on premise stuff turns into a quiet side gig that just happens to bring in some extra cash.

Any chance of that happening soon?

To rephrase: There are folks willing to give you cash right now to be the host for their projects. Would there be a way to convince you to take it?

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by dandelany »

sytse wrote: post #2

GitLab CEO here. Awesome to see this article! Ask me anything.

First off - you guys have a great thing going and I wish you all the luck.

What's the current status of the GitLab.com infrastructure? Are you still on Azure, and if so, how has it been? Does it seem like things are humming along and stable now, or do you foresee some more growing pains before things are rock solid?

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by dogweather »

sytse wrote: post #2

GitLab CEO here. Awesome to see this article! Ask me anything.

Thanks for jumping in to the thread. I'd really like GitLab to succeed simply because I like the results of healthy competition. So can I name a couple of things that are standing in its way?

1. gitlab.com site search is effectively down. A simple keyword search, e.g. for 'omniauth' takes 45 seconds:

https://gitlab.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=omniauth&gro...

I periodically find other site links which are surprisingly slow, like this one.

2. I'd really like to add GitLab oauth2 as a first-class citizen for people to sign in to my apps( e.g. http://nonstop.qa/users/sign_in ), along with GitHub and Google. Adding those two were easy, but I haven't found a working, maintained Ruby omniauth GitLab adapter.

Thanks, and good luck!

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by benatkin »

GitLab EE's source code is also available, though not under an open source license. Most of the differences are things I'd like to eventually see in an open source project (maybe GitLab CE, maybe a plugin, maybe a fork).

From my perspective the best thing would be for them to eventually open source some features I'd like to have in an open source project hosting service, once they've made more reasons for people to pay them. The worst thing would be if someone added it in a plugin or fork of GitLab CE and the company GitLab were to claim that they must have looked at the GitLab EE source code. GitLab Pages and audit logs are the features I'd most like to see in the open source version.

This is much like Nginx Plus's improved load balancing with health checks, which has me considering Tengine.

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