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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

digbyloftus wrote: post #119
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…

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?

I meant if indeed :)

We just hired our first person for APAC sales, Michael Alessio https://about.gitlab.com/team/

We don't have any open positions now but you can always shoot him a mail. michael@ company domain, please include a reference to this comment

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by microtonal »

threatofrain wrote: post #65

Github serves two major purposes: (1) one is to be a git repository, and (2) another purpose is to be the central meeting ground for discovery and community participation. GitLab can serve for the purpose of being a git repository. The problem is that the more competition we have for (2), the less functional any of the competitors are in serving (2). Given that when Github goes down, a lot of tools and development wo…

(2) another purpose is to be the central meeting ground for discovery and community participation. [...] The problem is that the more competition we have for (2), the less functional any of the competitors are in serving (2).

While this is true, especially for open source projects. I'd rather see a healthy open source community on top of an open source platform than a proprietary one. This for two reasons:

1. Suppose that some features are needed by an open source community. In the case of GitHub, you have to ask and wait until they throw something over the wall. In the case of GitLab, you can write the code yourself, submit a pull request. With a bit of luck, it's in the next version of GitLab.

2. Suppose that GitHub or GitLab as a company becomes evil. This is not far-fetched, look at SourceForge. With GitLab, you could fork the latest community edition and have pretty much the same functionality.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by digbyloftus »

sytse wrote: post #141
digbyloftus wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I meant if indeed :) We just hired our first person for APAC sales, Michael Alessio https://about.gitlab.com/team/ We don't have any open positions now but you can always shoot him a mail. michael@ company domain, please include a reference to this comment

Thanks! I'll be sure to do so.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by microtonal »

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.

Actually, I do want free private repos to exist as a mostly open source developer. I often start cooking a project in a private repo. If it leads nowhere I just keep the repository private. Usually that meant moving it to BitBucket because I only have 5 private repos on GitHub[1]. Once I am happy with the quality or usefulness, I clean up the history and make the repository public.

[1] Yep, my BitBucket account is basically a graveyard.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by m6w6 »

girvo wrote: post #71
sytse wrote: post #27

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I'm glad to hear my answer was helpful. Saml support should be pretty good, it was contributed by CERN and they use it in production. Please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/integration/saml.html for documentation. If you encounter a bug please create an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues We will try to reduce memory usage by something like 20% in the coming year. We have package for the Raspberry Pi…

It's really nice to see you plug Gogs like that :) I'm a massive fan of both! They fill different niches I think. You're always super helpful here on HN, too, and I just wanted to let you know that I (and I'm sure others here) appreciate it!

Huh? Looking at the GOGS documentation, it seems that only LDAP auth is upported?

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by devhead »

sytse wrote: post #120
oso96_2000 wrote: post #86

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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/

Hi, I'm planning on migrating away from stash to most likely gitlab in the next few weeks. One thing that keeps coming back among my team is where is the real search power. I followed the work your team did with EE and Elastic and was curious if you will plan to back port it into CE?

all i read is that it's EE, but will it be brought to CE is the bigger question, and how does that fall into your current roadmap for upcoming releases in CE?

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Follow up, do you plan on adding any code intelligence to your EE search, such as being done by the team at sourcegraph.com?

The way I see it is like this... github, sourcegraph & gogs all are missing the ability to categorize repositories in groups. This is a must when you have a lot of repos, thanks for including it.

gogs = super fast, minimalistic but solid. github = $$$$$$ stash/bitbucket = nickel and diming over features & $$$$ sourcegraph = not mature enough, missing code intelligence for majority of the languages we use gitlab ce = great feature set, bad search and some performance struggles (that i see you are addressing)

in the end, we are likely to go with your product, but the search in CE almost hurts my feelings to use. (me: search for "test" in all repos: 0 results. search for "test" in specific repo: 1 result. me: scratch my head)

all in all, really excited to kick stash out and give my team a deeper feature set to play with.

Thanks for taking the time to come here, I'm late to the party.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by dominotw »

I don't know, Gitlab seems a little too enterprisey for me. For example their documentation is too 'serious' they link to martin fowler's wiki for "feature branch" and wikipedia for "feature driven development". Their gitlab flow has waterflow development like production branch with things going to "production".I do oss for fun, not to go to another job after the first one.

They don't have the cool hipster vibe that github has, github earned their street cred. A copy cat will always be a copy cat.

All these features ppl are asking for are against the ethos of github. Can somone give github props for well implemented git lfs.

sorry gitlab guy who is watching this thread if that was too harsh.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by lobo_tuerto »

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…

Ubuntu 15.10 complains about the bad quality of the package. Is it ok to ignore it and install?

    Lintian check results for /home/algo/Descargas/gitlab-ce_8.4.4-ce.0_amd64.deb:
    E: gitlab-ce: maintainer-address-missing GitLab B.V.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by Walkman »

sytse wrote: post #31
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.

I agree that this has been a very positive effect. On the other hand forcing people to make code public when they might not want to might lead to problems when people are haunted by code they didn't intent to be read by others.

Nobody is forcing anybody to make their code public. It's their choice. You can have your code on your machine and on your servers only. Hosting your code is an option.
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