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Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

orf wrote: post #70
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #66

I'd love to try GitLab out, but the OSX installation instructions [1] are a bit of a put off. I'm not even sure if that's the right URL, but it's where google takes me. The instructions refer to a "runner"; I'm not really sure I understand what that is, and it's not explained anywhere. The "ci" makes me think this is something to do with continuous integration, so I'm really not sure if this is the right thing to be…

You're reading the docs for the continuous-integration runner :)

I did suspect as much, but it's the first result when I google "gitlab OSX" and it's titled "Install on OSX - GitLab".

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by orless »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #2

We're super excited with GitLab 8.5. It's much faster, no matter the size of your instance (but especially for larger instances). The Todos, ability to revert commits and CNAME support for Pages, are things that have been much requested and we're happy to have now. As always, we're here if anyone has any questions about anything.

Can it be that GitLab pages are down? I'm getting 503 at the moment:

* http://gitlab-examples.gitlab.io/pages-plain-html * http://gitlab-examples.gitlab.io/pages-jekyll * http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://gitlab-example...

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

exstudent2 wrote: post #91
sytse wrote: post #87

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Glad to hear that the rendering got better for you. That animation is our loading indicator introduced in GitLab 8.4. There is no way to disable it. However, it seems to have a lot of fans https://twitter.com/jerbob92/status/692089402030460929 I hope it is less weird now that you know what it is for.

Rendering is flawless now. I figured it was for loading, but I still don't like it (and it renders very strangely in Safari -- try mousing over it). I would really like the option to disable it. I'm sure others like it though, cool option to have.

Thanks for the feedback. We have an issue for the Safari rendering in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13645 Consider making a feature request if you want the option to disable it, but in general we try to prevent the complexity of options as much as possible.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by tedmiston »

nazgob wrote: post #138
dogweather wrote: post #133

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> predatory pricing I've always thought GitHub's pricing is awesome and very accessible. Can you explain?

It'ss quite bad for my company. We have to pay per repo and we like to create quite a lot of small libs and microservices. I'd like to have a option of per user payment.

Very similar here. My startup is 3 years old with ~10-15 developers, but we make many small repos -- about 150 in that amount of time.

Even though it's not tons of code, GitHub's pricing breaks down horribly in this case. I think that that in the long run many startups will move to embrace GitLab in the early days for price if nothing else.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by ake1 »

quadrangle wrote: post #93
mikewhy wrote: post #62

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There's already a setting for that http://imgur.com/GftE0Wx

well, that's something but 1200px width is still way too long for optimal reading of lines at that font size.

it does look like it says MAX 1200...but i could be mistaken.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by tedmiston »

stormbrew wrote: post #121
dudul wrote: post #115

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For example, a lot of people complain about issues on GitHub. GitLab handles those much better, that could be a compelling reason to move, but somehow it doesn't seem to be enough. Private repo can be useful for early stage of OSS projects. Agreed though that it still feels too much like a clone of GitHub. The UI for example is way to close to the original.

Having used both there's more than enough in either that's bad to justify a switch to the other if you really want to. I personally prefer github's warts to gitlab's. In particular, I find that general site navigation on gitlab is quite tedious and it rarely centres useful information first. But that is very much a qualitative and not a quantitative complaint. The main thing I find extra useful on gitlab is the abili…

That would be nice.

In GitLab today, we end up deleting and re-creating merge requests, or waiting until comments "@ ready for merge".

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by developer2 »

Afforess wrote: post #150
eikenberry wrote: post #144

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Atlassian is going after the enterprise market. They don't care about free software developers.

That's a poor strategy. All developers start out as free software developers, then gain employment. I persuaded my work to purchase Gitlab EE licenses, due to ease of use and it's excellent features & support. I can't imagine I'd say the same of Atlassian products. Capture awareness / interest early.

You'd be in the minority. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd bet you're at a small company where a low-level employee's opinion was taken into account when making the decision of which product to use for 10-50 people.

In medium to large sized companies, Atlassian will usually win out when you have a CTO that manages 100+ developers. Enterprises really like to stick with the "safe bet", where there are expensive licenses and dedicated account managers from the service provider.

Jira in particular is extremely popular with the modern addiction to Agile. Once you're on Jira, you just start to fall onto connecting all the related products like Confluence for wiki and Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) for git. I'm not saying it's the best thing to just ignore all other offerings, but in my experience CTOs do exactly that and just go straight to Atlassian for everything.

Basically, if your company is using Exchange... expect to be forced onto Atlassian. Welcome to the enterprise.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by tedmiston »

dudul wrote: post #108
josteink wrote: post #107

Looking at this thread here, Gitlab seems to be much more open about their development than Github, and has a real sense of community, yet Github (still) remains the popular option, despite their more community-hostile traditional board-meeting decision process. Is there a gradual shift in the FOSS community towards Gitlab (which in all honesty would make more sense), or am I just seeing the enthusiast in this thread…

I can't tell if there is a real shift, I would say no. GitHub, in a lot of people, is synonymous to Git. GitLab is superior in a lot of ways, more feature, open source, very open as you pointed out. Their pricing model supports free private repos. Not sure what it would take to really make people reconsider GitHub as the default goto place to host OSS repos.

I believe every Techstars batch does a tools survey across batch companies (at least R/GA Techstars in NYC did) then emails everyone the summary with bar charts.

The one I have is mostly about analytics, sales, and support tools, and unfortunately repository hosting wasn't a question asked. I also wish they would make this data source public so others could see shifts early -- for example the wave from HipChat to Slack would have been very visible.

Perhaps StackShare might be the closest open source of similar data.

http://stackshare.io/code-collaboration-version-control

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by cmrx64 »

josteink wrote: post #107

Looking at this thread here, Gitlab seems to be much more open about their development than Github, and has a real sense of community, yet Github (still) remains the popular option, despite their more community-hostile traditional board-meeting decision process. Is there a gradual shift in the FOSS community towards Gitlab (which in all honesty would make more sense), or am I just seeing the enthusiast in this thread…

For https://robigalia.org/, I decided to go with GitLab for a few reasons:

1. Free software needs free tools (I did not consider GitHub or Bitbucket at all).

2. Excellent team management and access control.

3. Excellent integration of their CI in the interface, with ability to run own build servers ("runners", in their jargon). This is critical, because setting up the toolchain needed to build takes some time, and I can use the beefy hardware I already have, without having to setup jenkins.

4. Lovely UI.

The only real alternative in this space without setting up custom infrastructure is Savannah.

Or, if willing to compromise on principles, GitHub, which has a lot of incremental downgrades compared to GitLab.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

sytse wrote: post #142
dogweather wrote: post #132

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GitLab has a ton of strengths, but still has large weaknesses in the area: gitlab.com implementation and design. gitlab.com is the public 'demo' version which people compare to github. It's missing a few key items that would make it appealing to open source developers (and that I'd like to see them prioritize.) E.g.: * Site search. It's been broken for months or possibly years. (Response time > 45 secs., Relevancy is…

I agree we can do a lot better in project discovery on GitLab.com. I do want to mention that https://gitlab.com/explore?utf8=%E2%9C%93&filter_projects=gi... gives results in a few seconds and GitLab itself is the first hit.

Want any help?

I don't have any interesting answers for your hiring filters.

The culture you've built is very rare. I realized that if I felt that way, then I should try to help it become the norm.

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