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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

neptunespear wrote: post #37
sytse wrote: post #2

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

Wow, I'm talking directly to the CEO of a high-profile tech company on Hacker News! That means I'm pretty much famous now. It has been said that that GitHub has many killer features that are lacking in Gitlab or Bitbucket (e.g. Github has better issues handling, prettier graphs). Do you agree? And if you do, what features of Gitlab would you like to improve to compete with Github's killer features?

The OP talked about GitLab issue features in the article. To see our graphs please look at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master

For features that we like to have please see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

#42

Post by sytse »

kaendfinger wrote: post #28
sytse wrote: post #2

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

Hello! I work at http://dglogik.com : I maintain all of our development infrastructure. We have been extremely happy with GitLab! Thanks so much for the work.

You're welcome. Happy to hear that, thanks for sharing!

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by Alterlife »

denniskane wrote: post #38

"Choose GitLab for your next open source project" That's a fucking stupid headline. Here's my answer: No. Here's why: I am the creator of LinuxOnTheWeb. It's an entire OS in a browser, not some stupid early 2000's-esque HTML4 bullshit. Here's another reason: I'm the fucking peace guy. And yet another: I'm way fucking cooler that some "look at me in Silicon Valley I'm a CEO" douchebag. And finally: You don't like me,…

I don't get it, is this some kind of meme that I'm missing?

What makes gitlab unsuitable for linuxontheweb?

What makes an 'os-on-the-web' different from 'html4 bullshit' to a version control tool?

It's just code either way.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

#45

Post by neptunespear »

sytse wrote: post #41
neptunespear wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I'm talking directly to the CEO of a high-profile tech company on Hacker News! That means I'm pretty much famous now. It has been said that that GitHub has many killer features that are lacking in Gitlab or Bitbucket (e.g. Github has better issues handling, prettier graphs). Do you agree? And if you do, what features of Gitlab would you like to improve to compete with Github's killer features?

The OP talked about GitLab issue features in the article. To see our graphs please look at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master For features that we like to have please see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/

Thanks for pointing out your company's "direction" page, I'm sure that many Github refugees will have plenty of suggestions.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

#47

Post by rdtsc »

sethherr wrote: post #29

See, here's the thing: I don't want free private repos to exist. What GitHub has done is incentive making things open source, and that's immeasurably valuable.

How do you mean open source? I can work on a project or whatever in a private repo then release it as open source, or close source, or both. If it is not ready it hurts the open source probably to have half implemented, broken, unmaintained junk.

Now it makes Github look good -- look we have millions of users, billions of lines of code, so many repos. You can see it here it all.

Of course it is important to realize it is free and provided by Github with their infrastructure. So certainly not implying that owe people with free repos anything and if they want those terms of agreement for whatever reason then that's fine.

I just don't necessarily agree that what github is doing is necessarily to benefit "open source" as movement (if there is such a thing).

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

neptunespear wrote: post #45
sytse wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OP talked about GitLab issue features in the article. To see our graphs please look at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/graphs/master For features that we like to have please see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/

Thanks for pointing out your company's "direction" page, I'm sure that many Github refugees will have plenty of suggestions.

Suggestions are very welcome on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues or as merge requests to the direction page. We add all feature requests to our public tracker https://about.gitlab.com/2015/08/03/almost-everything-we-do-...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

cm3 wrote: post #46
sytse wrote: post #2

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

From the website I couldn't tell if Gitlab has builtin CI support or if I have to run the agent on my machines and make them talk to gitlab.com. Which way is it?

GitLab CE and EE have built in CI support, making it easy to setup and navigate. But all tests run on agents (we call them runners). As a best practise we advise to host Runners on separate machines (not on the GitLab server). You can use any machine (Windows/OSX/Unix) as a runner so you can test on many platforms. For more information please see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/
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