Choose GitLab for your next open source project

Post by sytse » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 3:23 AM UTC

BinaryIdiot wrote: post #91

Damn I knew GitLab was good but that article made it sound far more amazing than GitHub. I'm impressed. One thing I've really wanted was a voting system -> merge. Is there a way to require X amount of votes (in general or from specific in a specific group) which, once that is hit, allows the PR to be merged into master? Part of our typical code review workflow is requiring a specific amount of people to approve the P…

Post by fweespeech » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 3:29 AM UTC

sytse wrote: post #39

alexandrerond wrote: post #30

I'll just jump in to vouch for Gitlab CE, in a self-hosted setup. @sytse: it is one of the best documented and well packaged pieces of software these days. Specially in the Ruby world. Thank you for that. Gitlab really makes a difference. Where others just distribute Docker images or directly nothing (because omg it is too hard to do proper packaging), Gitlab has nice packages for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu (the distr…

Thanks Alex for posting this. I'm so glad you had a positive experience upgrading. We spend a lot of time making our Omnibus packages a flawless install and upgrade experience. Docker images are great but for many users Docker is not an option. GitLab CE is just as performant and easy to upgrade as EE and we strive to keep it that way https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship Currently our team member Axil is upgra…

Post by mfburnett » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 3:37 AM UTC

sytse wrote: post #39

alexandrerond wrote: post #30

I'll just jump in to vouch for Gitlab CE, in a self-hosted setup. @sytse: it is one of the best documented and well packaged pieces of software these days. Specially in the Ruby world. Thank you for that. Gitlab really makes a difference. Where others just distribute Docker images or directly nothing (because omg it is too hard to do proper packaging), Gitlab has nice packages for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu (the distr…

Thanks Alex for posting this. I'm so glad you had a positive experience upgrading. We spend a lot of time making our Omnibus packages a flawless install and upgrade experience. Docker images are great but for many users Docker is not an option. GitLab CE is just as performant and easy to upgrade as EE and we strive to keep it that way https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship Currently our team member Axil is upgra…

Post by KurtMueller » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 3:44 AM UTC

matheweis wrote: post #26

sytse wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your question! We're a VC backed startup so we have to have a so called liquidity event at some point. As explained on https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ our goal is to IPO instead of being aquired. This will ensure we can preserve our culture, mission and goals. There will always be an open source version of GitLab, more than 1000 people contributed and it the most popular self-hosted option, used on-prem…

Thanks for the answer - very helpful! Other (unrelated) minor things: - SAML support exists, but at last check was mostly broken. Universities in particular use SAML over OAuth (See http://www.incommonfederation.org/participants/ ) - Resource usage seems very high for small shops; will there be a GitLab "lite"? ...would be especially awesome if it didn't need a mostly dedicated container and could drop in as a subfol…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 13, 2016, 3:56 AM UTC