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Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

eadz wrote: post #123
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.

Pages are an EE feature, but one which is useful for open source projects. Would you accept a pull request for a community implementation of Pages? or would a fork be needed in this case? How do you see this sort of issue playing out?

Good question, how we deal with that is detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship Please let me know if you have any questions.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

sytse wrote: post #189
Cogito wrote: post #181

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I think your link may be an errant copy paste :) I guess you meant to paste: https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

Yes, thanks for correcting me!

Will you give me a real-world task and see how well I do?

Assessing a candidate is as simple (and as hard) as that. Watching someone while they code isn't useful. https://data.triplebyte.com/take-home-interviews-d7f7ea13067...

Just give me something real to work on.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

orless wrote: post #152
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...

Sorry about that. There was a brief interruption to GitLab pages while we fixed a vulnerability. It is back now https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/701897151790653440

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

sdesol wrote: post #183
tshannon wrote: post #117

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I just wanted to say how awesome it is that you mention Gogs, a competing platform. It shows that you're focused on your domain, not closed-mindly discounting every competitor, and are open about any shortcomings in Gitlab.

It also makes sense from a business point of view. The three strong points that I've taken from business school are: 1) You can overtake an incumbent if you can offer twice the value at half the price. If you can produce a drill that works two times better than existing drills at half the price, you'll overtake the drill market. 2) You can't compete with "as good as". Winning here is more marketing than anything and…

Better metrics is certainly something we want to do:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/110 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/112 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13409 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4044

For the rest of our strategy please see https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

tedmiston wrote: post #162
fsiefken wrote: post #77

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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.

We would love to make this happen but there is so much functionality in GitLab it needs a ton of memory to run.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

dogweather wrote: post #135
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.

Have you deployed it to gitlab.com?

Not yet, from the OP: "For GitLab.com users: We plan to enable custom domains on GitLab.com in the following week, so stay tuned!"

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

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…

Thanks! We think the displaying both project information and the files is too messy, but I can see you point. If you have any other UX suggestions feel free to share them.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

mrmondo wrote: post #149
Keats wrote: post #57

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It is extremely slow. We tried it on a 1go droplet and it felt slow with 2 users but can't beat that £0 price.

Have you tried running GitHub EE on something of the same spec? It's terrible to near impossible and it doesn't include nearly as many of the features as Gitlab. We have been running Gitlab for 100~ employees for well over a year on a single, medium/low specced VM and its lightning quick, so much so that when Devs/Ops have to use GitHub you can hear the sighs around the office!

Glad to hear GitLab is fast for you! Will be even faster with 8.5 :)

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by quadrangle »

ake1 wrote: post #155
quadrangle wrote: post #93

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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.

You're right. And that means the only way to set it to keep text contained less wide than that is to have a smaller browser window.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

palidanx wrote: post #119
jobvandervoort wrote: post #95

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That's great to hear. It's a big community that makes this happen.

Just curious, were there any new changes made to branch creation and protected branches? I'm getting a Branch creation was rejected by Git hook When trying to create branches via my gitlab instance and it seems to take a lot longer to process the request. Pushing via a command shell seems to work well. --update I just rolled back my version to the older version and see that all of the branch functionality via the git…

I'm not aware of any changes that would explain that error, but that doesn't mean it can't be a regression in 8.5. If so please open an issue for it and link from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13350
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