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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by wanderr »

sytse wrote: post #2

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

I will probably set up an account soon and try it out for myself but just from looking a gitlab.com it's not entirely clear what difference there is between EE and gitlab.com hosting. Are all the features of EE available on the SAAS version? Why is there so much emphasis on the self hosted options, is that something you are seeing a lot of demand for? I'm finding it hard to come up with a good reason to want to take on the burden of maintaining a source control server when there are good cheap cloud options.

Why is the gitlab.com option so cheap, even for corporations even if they pay for support? I understand you're still trying to gain market share more than be profitable right now but as a company paying nothing for the product certainly makes me feel like it might go away at any moment and even if we pay for support we may not receive the level of support that we need.

As corporate users, maybe we're not gitlab's target audience right now but aside from those questions it seems like a nice alternative to github, especially with regards to the additional ability to have pull requests rebased before merge...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

mrmondo wrote: post #139

As I've said before, we moved from GitHub to Gitlab and could not be happier. Most of our stuff is internal and we mirror our open source code to public repos. God damn it's good software - is there still room for improvement? Yes. Are they improving it every.bloody.week? Hell yeah they are!

Thanks, we'll keep on shipping!

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

zanny wrote: post #182
sytse wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently GitLab has LDAP, analytics, and logging. I'm glad you like the UX of GitLab. I'm not sure what essential features are still missing from it in your opinion. Can you elaborate?

I'm not one of the KDE web devs that run their infrastructure, I'm just a project contributor / maintainer. There has been some historical recording of the process that led to KDE having to give up on the idea, though: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.community/61... https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2014q1/000667.h... https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=292&t=130854&p=350671#...

Thanks for the links. I'm sorry I never got the chance to talk to the KDE people and address the concerns we had. We're always open to adding or open sourcing features that are needed by large open source projects.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

LinuxBender wrote: post #225
LinuxBender wrote: post #220

I tried to create an account on GitLab.com. It said I needed to fill in the Captcha. There was no Captcha. Tried on Safari. I will try again later on Firefox.

Worked on firefox after allowing gstatic. Email verification was rejected. My mail server didn't like your mail servers TLS settings. I will try again later.

Sorry but we need the Google Captcha to prevent spam. Can you please detail what is wrong with our TLS settings in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/83 ?

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

carussell wrote: post #209
phillc73 wrote: post #152

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A bit late responding to this thread, due to sleep. I recently started to mirror my repositories between GitHub and GitLab (they're just really small R packages). It was very simple to update my local git config file so that "git push origin master" now pushes changes to both GitHub and GitLab. I've also made it clear in the README how to install from GitLab. Three minor annoyances: * GitLab doesn't support Rmarkdown…

> https://gitlab.com/groups/rstats I filed a bug: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/541

Thanks!

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

wanderr wrote: post #231
sytse wrote: post #2

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

I will probably set up an account soon and try it out for myself but just from looking a gitlab.com it's not entirely clear what difference there is between EE and gitlab.com hosting. Are all the features of EE available on the SAAS version? Why is there so much emphasis on the self hosted options, is that something you are seeing a lot of demand for? I'm finding it hard to come up with a good reason to want to take…

GitLab.com is running GitLab EE. Not all features are available, for example you can't link it to an LDAP server since that requires admin credentials that only GitLab Inc team members have.

Our self hosted option currently is more popular than our SaaS one. More than 100,000 organizations use it because they can't use a SaaS for legal, integration, technical and security reasons (want it behind VPN, integrate with other on-premises services, etc.).

GitLab.com is free because we make enough money with GitLab EE to pay for it. For more context and to understand why we think this is sustainable please see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/#why-gitlab-com-will-be-...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by m6w6 »

geostyx wrote: post #228
m6w6 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can also just setup accounts manually, w/o using external auth.

Ah, thanks for clarifying. Not sure why I got downvoted on that...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by ggergbh »

sytse wrote: post #218
ggergbh wrote: post #173

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I use GitLab on CentOS 7, self hosted, from source. It works great, I really like this project, I think it beats any alternative hands down. I really like the accurate documentation for upgrading between versions from source (keep it up !). I think there is a very good balance between EE-CE features, I find that the availability of the features is well thought of. I don't use GitLab-CI at the moment (running buildbot…

Thanks for your kind words, especially about the balance between EE-CE features, this is hard to get right and I appreciate the feedback. We would love to see support for buildbot. I found https://pypi.python.org/pypi/buildbot-gitlab/0.1.2 And with the commit status api introduced in GitLab 8.1 it should be easy for CI products to support GitLab.

Thank you for the effort to produce such a system.

It's been a long coming for the open source community.

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