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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by shampine »

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…

I will be honest, the switch from self compiled MySql to Omnibus Postgres was not so great for me and my team. But. We love GitLab, and now that we are on Omnibus I get updates done in < 5 mins. Thank you all for building an amazing piece of software. Also kudos to your team, even as a CE user you have helped me resolve a bug or two here and there. It's been a great ride. I wouldn't trade our GitLab in for anything.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by tschellenbach »

I for one am a very happy user of Github. Two mid size open source projects, dozens tiny ones and a few commercial private repos. Github has private repos you just need to pay for them and they are actually very affordable. I've seen developers who make >100 per hour choose bitbucket because they don't want to pay for private repos. How is that rational...? I like Github and I like paying them for a service I use every day.

Travis on the other hand... could use a bit of work :)

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by kbutler »

tangue wrote: post #90
sandGorgon wrote: post #85

I'm a rails guy and have run a consulting shop based on rails. But Im actually a bit surprised (and impressed) that you distribute a self-installed piece of software based on Rails (yes I have seen Omnibus and all the cool things you do. As I said very, very impressive!) I have personally lost many a "enterprise" contract because of the Ruby thing. Not just that, but at the end of the day Java is very performant with…

Why the downvotes ? Rails is a PITA to install, Docker might change that but I've spent too much time fighting rvm, rbenv, old gems

Try the gitlab installation, and speak to it specifically, rather than to general Rails experience.

Gitlab install is fast and easy (though it didn't used to be). Gitlab has had a hugely successful rapid increase in usability/maintainability/installability.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by kaendfinger »

sytse wrote: post #2

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

I have a single concern about GitLab. Looking at https://about.gitlab.com/direction/, I feel like there is way too much being labeled as EE only. I understand that GitLab has to make money to survive, however I see a lot of those features as things that are relevant to pure open source projects (private issues are something Open Source projects do actually need for security, think Chromium) and should probably be in CE. I absolutely love GitLab, but the roadmap has me certainly concerned.

The following features are most concerning:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/150 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4176

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/112 (This one I am not as much concerned about, it's very complicated it seems, I can understand a bit why this would be EE)

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by joeevans1000 »

I think this is a nice article and I will take a peek at GitLab. I have to say the following though: I have been very annoyed with the difficulty in creating private repos in GitHub BUT I think it is a brilliant plan to encourage people to make their code available. As much as GitHub's pay-for-private-repos approach annoys me, I think if they hadn't done that, 30% or more of what's available on GitHub would be hidden. People made and make their code public because they have to pay not to. Brilliant, and the right approach for GitHub.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by generic_user »

generic_user wrote: post #66
sytse wrote: post #2

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

I would like to know that GitLab will not support Socio-Political entry-ism by instituting a so called 'Code of conduct'. Codes of Conduct are a form of Socio-Political entry-ism by which third party activists try to interject a vaguely defined set of Behavioral, Ideological and Speech codes which participating individuals must accept in order to participate. Once Instituted activists can try and use these 'Codes' as…

Digging through the site I see you endorse the Contributor Covenant, a prime example of entry-ism written by serial harasser and radical feminist Coraline Ada Ehmke.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3ab802/warr...

Unfortunately until this Code of Conduct is withdrawn and links with serial Harasser and political entriest Coraline Ada Ehmke are removed I can not endorse or contribute to GitLab.

I do hope GitLab removes the Contributor Covenant and replaces it with a more honest and inclusive statement.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by typeformer »

cjfont wrote: post #74
ioab wrote: post #49

They don't have the octocat.

They have a fox though, so that's cool.

The GitLab logo is actually of a Tanuki (Japanese Raccoon Dog), but still kind of like a fox, as in, it definitely has that scrappy, playful, spirit. Certainly equally as cool as an Octocat.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by matheweis »

KurtMueller wrote: post #98
matheweis wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

We use Gitlab here at The Ohio State University. We authenticate via Shibboleth. So far it's worked pretty well.

Nice! Could you share some info? (Many variations of contact info in my profile).

I run our Shibboleth IDP among other things, and I was told by the team that was looking at GitLab at the time that it was impossible to tie it in with the currently available SAML SP plugins. This was over a year ago, maybe things have improved...

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