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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by NetOpWibby »

sytse wrote: post #249
NetOpWibby wrote: post #248

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I'm a front-end developer and designer so I love tweaking things to my liking. There are links that don't look like links and padding issues in a few places. The ability to choose custom fonts from Brick.im would be great too. If nothing else, I'll make the changes and figure out how to write a script that brings my changes back after I update/upgrade. Thanks for the requirements link, I must've missed that.

Certainly there is a lot of room for improving links and padding. Have you considered contributing them to GitLab? To get started see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit Having people pick custom fonts might make it hard to get the design right for everyone. Reapplying changes in Omnibus is hard since it is shipped without a git repo, so you can't use git stash or git merge. You would need to switch…

Hmm, okay. I'll do that!

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by rajksarkar »

devhead wrote: post #147
sytse wrote: post #120

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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 u…

Can you elaborate on nickle and diming over features? Most of the required features are built-in for Stash/Bitbucket Server. Code Search is on the roadmap and we are actively working on it.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by dham »

> Do I have to tell you, it’s good for people with vision problems?

Actually light themes work better for me. I have astigmatism and light themes open the pupil allowing me to see the text easier. With a dark theme I basically just see line noise.

This might be a misconception of dark themes.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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bjwbell wrote: post #163
said wrote: post #114

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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.

Code of conduct section in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTRIBU...

Thank you.

So, I read the their code of conduct, and nothing struck me as wrong (well, aside from that link back to the Contributor Covenant homepage, which is wrong, breathlessly hyperbolic, and politically charged).

Then I had a couple of realizations:

1. A sign on all public trash cans and dumpsters saying "MOTHERS, DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR BABIES. YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED" would be correct, but it would be insulting because it implies the sign is necessary.

2. The existence of the code of conduct could be a dog-whistle. It could signal to the Caroline Adas of the world "We'll do whatever you want." Or even "Pease, please, please leave us alone. We'll do whatever you want". Both would be bad.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by said »

generic_user wrote: post #187
said wrote: post #114

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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.

As you can see from the link the real intent of the creators of the Contributor Covenant and there 'inclusive' contract is really to attack, bully and exclude people who do not convert to there cult like sudo-religion. Codes of conduct will not increase participation in your project they will reduce participation. No one wants to be part of a nanny state where political ideologues like Coraline Ada Ehmke poor over so…

Please my reply to bjwbell. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by kaendfinger »

sytse wrote: post #211
kaendfinger wrote: post #195

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First off, I would really like to commend you for caring and responding to everyone on here. You deserve a lot of kudos for this! 'Test the merge' is something that we already get from GitHub. Travis CI tests both the merge and the branch itself. I think it only makes sense to test both, in fact, if I were to choose one way for a Merge Request, I would just test the merge result. We have IoT Platform SDKs (See https:…

Thanks for your kind words. I was not aware that Travis CI tests both the branch and the merge, do you maybe have a link to the documentation for this? There are a couple of ways to implement this feature and we're discussing them in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4176 Feel free to join the conversation and/or contribute it. For now this feature is planned for 8.7 but this might change.

Thanks.

See https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/pull-requests#How-Pull-Reque... and http://cl.ly/3L303u2j072x/Image%202016-02-13%20at%207.17.57%... for how Travis CI checks both.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by jhasse »

sytse wrote: post #219
jhasse wrote: post #165

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Am I the only one who hates the new SPA Gitlab UI?

I'm sorry to hear you don't like the UI. What do you think we should improve? BTW Technically GitLab is not a SPA, it uses turbolinks to do page loads.

Basically I just don't like some "features" which are anti-patterns IMHO:

* With SPA I mean that clicking on a link, my browser doesn't load a new page, but rather some JavaScript seems to do it.

* Depending on the browser width, the description of the icons on the left disappears. It should always be there, I'd rather have a horizontal scrollbar than not knowing which button does what.

* Fixed headers. Vertical screen space is the most important thing to me, so there should be nothing on the top blocking the stuff I want to read. Also please don't start to animate it or let the header slide in when I scroll up.

* Infinite scrolling.

* Icon fonts. I don't like the default font. If I block it, some icons don't work anymore.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by fanf2 »

sytse wrote: post #15
carussell wrote: post #6

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I'm patiently waiting for you all to decide to focus your main interest on making gitlab.com the best place to host open source projects, while the GitLab EE/on premise stuff turns into a quiet side gig that just happens to bring in some extra cash. Any chance of that happening soon? To rephrase: There are folks willing to give you cash right now to be the host for their projects. Would there be a way to convince you…

Thanks for your question! We are trying to make GitLab.com the best place to host open source projects, see https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ We do not think that paying for hosting itself makes sense, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/#why-gitlab-com-will-be-... Instead of giving cash to use I would encourage people to move their projects and contribute by adding the features they need or helping our people,…

One thing that more recent code hosting sites miss out is mailing list hosting, for less structured discussions between users and developers, or for providing a private group contact address for the developers.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by fanf2 »

sytse wrote: post #208
Spivak wrote: post #200

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Hello, I am currently very happy with my self-hosted GitLab instance for my personal projects. But I would love to have some of the EE features (both for my workflow and experience working with enterprise tools) and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. However open source is very important to me so my question is do you think it would ever be possible to purchase a personal use EE instance without license k…

Glad to hear you're happy with your self-hosted instance.We're working on single user subscriptions (before either 8.5 or 8.6), our license key doesn't call home and our license will stay proprietary but already allows for modification and publishing patches.

Allowing your customers to publish their patches is super cool :-)
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