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Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by joaoqalves »

When I met Gitlab, 3 years ago, I didn't expect this. The product is so much mature, the UI is so much better and the feature-set increased too. I respect these guys. The competition is though out there. Github is _the_ place where many git users started and is the _de facto_ standard for open-source/show-cases or even tech blogging, these days.

There are a few things that annoy me as a Gitlab user (UX things), apart from the search/responsiveness of the application. Moreover, they improved _a lot_ the installation/upgrade process over these years. I'm expecting big things from you now :)

Anyway I need to say that these guys have been working a lot and deserve much credit. Kudos for you, guys!

One of the things that annoys me most is that the homepage of the repository, where you have the README is not the same where you have a file browser (Perhaps this is Github-biased, but is soooooo much better. Think about it :)

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by tedmiston »

fsiefken wrote: post #77
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.

Hi Job, does this mean it is also faster in low memory environments like 512M? ToDo integration is a great feature!

Perhaps this is what you were thinking too -- it'd be stellar to be able to run on a t2.nano or the DO $5/mo box, but it's also easy to understand why that wouldn't be a major priority for the GL team.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

#163

Post by hackbinary »

amelius wrote: post #116
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'm not sure if anyone can answer that question. Personally, I hope we can eventually move to a federated system, perhaps one based on ipfs.

Well, ipfs sounds interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

#164

Post by alextgordon »

quadrangle wrote: post #92
Gigablah wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh oh, here comes the "max-width = readability" cargo cult.

"cargo" cult??? Don't you just mean "cult"? How does this have anything to do with cargo cults even metaphorically?

The "cargo" is self-referential, clearly. It's a cargo cult "cargo cult".

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

#165

Post by threatofrain »

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…

The biggest feature that Github provides is its popularity as a central meeting ground for project discovery and collaboration. Some people are only looking for git hosting and don't care about the community aspect, so they could jump ship to Bitbucket or Gitlab.

In that respect, if you're looking for a social network to keep in contact with a general group of people, Facebook is the way to go, and not the myriad of smaller sized social networks. If you're only looking for communication with a small group of people who haven't committed to anything, then you could jump ship to Google+ or whatever. Size of community is the salient feature, not the app.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by yapdoggydog »

s_kilk wrote: post #122
toyg wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Github's shortcomings only really came to the fore in the last couple of months, due to a combination of factors. GitLab is working hard to exploit the current window of opportunity to make waves. I'm slightly surprised BitBucket is not doing the same, but their Atlassian masters seem more interested in pushing irrelevant features at the moment (like SSO across products I don't care about). It's too early to talk abo…

> I'm slightly surprised BitBucket is not doing the same, but their Atlassian masters seem more interested in pushing irrelevant features at the moment Yeah, I fear Bitbucket will always be shackled to the rest of the Atlassian product line, and never really allowed to innovate much.

Hey, Kelvin from Atlassian here. We are pretty flat out ourselves improving both Bitbucket Cloud and Server. I can see how SSO isn't terribly important if Bitbucket is the only one of our products you use, but it's critical for our customers who co-own Bitbucket and JIRA (or Confluence, or HipChat, etc.). It was a fairly massive undertaking: retrofitting auth across our portfolio of products took some serious engineering effort. But we've still managed to squeeze a few fairly large releases out recently shipping features such as smart mirroring, Git LFS, and clustering - and have some other great stuff in the pipeline.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by X-Istence »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yep. I got my work to purchase EE license for Gitlab because it's miles ahead of Bitbucket Server.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by X-Istence »

developer2 wrote: post #157
Afforess wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 license…

At $WORK we use Jira/Confluence, and instead of Bitbucket Server we chose Gitlab because I have experience with it, and it comes with integrated CI.

BTW, this is not some small startup...

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

#169

Post by echelon »

joaoqalves wrote: post #161

When I met Gitlab, 3 years ago, I didn't expect this. The product is so much mature, the UI is so much better and the feature-set increased too. I respect these guys. The competition is though out there. Github is _the_ place where many git users started and is the _de facto_ standard for open-source/show-cases or even tech blogging, these days. There are a few things that annoy me as a Gitlab user (UX things ), apar…

The only thing preventing me from using Gitlab is that someone registered my username. I'm "echelon" on Github, Twitter, Gmail, and dozens of other services. I guess I missed the boat. :/

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by s986s »

threatofrain wrote: post #165
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…

The biggest feature that Github provides is its popularity as a central meeting ground for project discovery and collaboration. Some people are only looking for git hosting and don't care about the community aspect, so they could jump ship to Bitbucket or Gitlab. In that respect, if you're looking for a social network to keep in contact with a general group of people, Facebook is the way to go, and not the myriad of…

Facebook is not for me. Msybe its because most of mine freinds are party people. I feel very isolated. I rarely go on it and I find github the only social network I really care about. I feel as though its not really that social though since I only get to talk to people when I bring something to eat the table. Big node repos +1s, the I barely use the follow feature despite having access to some of the most prolific programmers of my time. I want a social programming network. No idea what it looks like, but github has definitely helped curb the isolated feeling. I havent played around with gitlab enough but Im sure it has more potential
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