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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by jschumacher »

joshstrange wrote: post #22
tootie wrote: post #19

Recently had a need for something like this and Gitlab ended up losing to BitBucket Server which we bought along with JIRA and Confluence. Gitlab seems like a nice, light solution, but their issue tracker ain't JIRA.

My company is using atlassian products heavily and I was surprised to find very good support for GitLab. I run it locally and love it and I'm pushing to use it at work.

It's worthwhile noting that the integration between JIRA and Bitbucket (naturally) goes far beyond adding comments with links to a ticket.

Our aim was to provide an at the glance view of the development status (# of commits, branches, pull requests and their status, builds and deployments) with the option to see more detailed information right within JIRA. And of course you can create a new branch right from your JIRA issue.

Lastly, ensuring that the data is 100% reliable and up to date was an important consideration which most of the basic webhook integrations simply ignore.

Take a look at the documentation, which provides a great overview of the integration: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/viewing-the-code-devel...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by joshstrange »

jschumacher wrote: post #111
joshstrange wrote: post #22

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My company is using atlassian products heavily and I was surprised to find very good support for GitLab. I run it locally and love it and I'm pushing to use it at work.

It's worthwhile noting that the integration between JIRA and Bitbucket (naturally) goes far beyond adding comments with links to a ticket. Our aim was to provide an at the glance view of the development status (# of commits, branches, pull requests and their status, builds and deployments) with the option to see more detailed information right within JIRA. And of course you can create a new branch right from your JIR…

No doubt, that said I've used both before and I generally prefer GitLab to bitbucket and so as long as the basics work I'm happy. Also GitLab can satisfy both Bitbucket and Bamboo and since my company needs to host all apps it's MUCH cheaper to use GitLab than to pay for 2 more tools for all developers.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by said »

generic_user wrote: post #107
generic_user wrote: post #66

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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 hop…

I followed the link, and though I did see Caroline Ada trying to bully someone out of a community, I didn't see any evidence GitLab CEO supports the Contributor Covenant.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

shampine wrote: post #101
sytse wrote: post #39

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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.

I'm sorry to hear the database conversion was rough. Is there anything we can improve to the documentation to make it easier? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc...

Great to hear that after converting to Omnibus the updates are smooth. We try to help all our users, customer or not.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

mfburnett wrote: post #96
sytse wrote: post #39

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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…

Is there a nice Gitlab Docker-Kubernetes setup that you could recommend?

Our official Docker images are in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/docker

Good Kubernetes instructions (from a RedHat person if I'm correct) are on http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/01/deploying-a-contain...

There is also a great community docker image that has Kubenetes instructions https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab/tree/master/kuber...

BTW I'm also passionate about making it easier to deploy apps hosted on GitLab to Kubernetes, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3286 for more details.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

fweespeech wrote: post #94
sytse wrote: post #39

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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 just wish we could buy 1-9 EE users without support. x3

I agree, we'll soon (planned before GitLab 8.5 or 8.6) introduce a pricing change that will make it possible to order per user instead of packs of 10.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

matheweis wrote: post #110
KurtMueller wrote: post #98

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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...

I think support for Shibboleth was added on Aug 28, 2014, but it has been improved since then, see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/integration/shibboleth.html

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by digbyloftus »

sytse wrote: post #11
matheweis wrote: post #5

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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?

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…

Should probably go with "if" instead of "when" ;)

Actual question, do you have much Australian based business and do you see yourselves needing account managers there (here) in the near future?

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

oso96_2000 wrote: post #86
sytse wrote: post #13

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1. Our Elastic Search import is scheduled to be complete on Thursday. This should be a dramatic improvement http://i.imgur.com/HRawCIC.png 2. GitLab is an OAuth 2.0 provider, for the docs see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/integration/oauth_provider.html I see that there is https://github.com/linchus/omniauth-gitlab updated 5 months ago, did you try that one?

Isn't the Elasticsearch feature just for EE? Or are you planning to release it for CE too? I just upgraded to 8.4.4 and didn't see any of it (not that I look so well).

The elasticsearch feature is EE only, it was released in 8.4 https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/22/gitlab-8-4-released/
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