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Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

tedmiston wrote: post #213
sytse wrote: post #190

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Why do you need to do that? Have you looked at the merge request approvals feature https://about.gitlab.com/2015/07/29/feature-highlight-merge-... (EE/.com only)?

It's not about the number of approvers (just one), but more the approver knowing that the submitter is done making revisions. Usually after the first merge request, we do code review then wait for revisions, that's when the tag happens. Now this would be awesome: > We’re thinking about more improvements to the Merge Request Approvals, the main improvement being automatic suggestions for reviewers, based on the histor…

To indicate that the submitter is done making revisions I advise to remove the WIP indicator http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/wip_merge_requests.html this feature is available in CE and EE.

If we start recommending automatic reviewers based on the blame this would likely be an EE feature.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by tdkl »

ayufan wrote: post #218
tdkl wrote: post #180

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Will there be a possibility to use an apex domain ? Looking to switch from GH Pages.

Yes. Sure. Instead of adding the CNAME you need to add an A record. You can get the IP address with dig: $ dig a myuser.gitlab.io Then configure your domain to point to that IP address. We are currently working on documentation covering that part too.

Brilliant, thank you (and sytse below) for a prompt response. Looking forward to set it up.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by hobarrera »

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…

> Gitlab seems to be much more open about their development than Github, and has a real sense of community

Yes. They didn't just slap an open source licence onto their software, they actually follow an open source development mode, and work out in the open.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by hobarrera »

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.

I'm guessing Atlassian frequently goes after those sort of enterprises were the decisions are made by management with little input from the actual end-users of the product.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by hobarrera »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #185
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/

Yeah, that was the page that convinced me I should try to join. But, "A note on the technical interview: As part of our interviewing process, you may be asked to pick an issue from the GitLab CE issue tracker, and code ‘live’ with the interviewer there to talk with and collaborate with. We do this because we believe that it is the best way for you to see what the work is really like, and for our interviewer to see ho…

Given those answers, you really seem to clash with gitlab's culture, regardless of how good a programmer you may be.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

trashhalo wrote: post #203
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…

Totally agree on the project discovery bit. Noticed the same thing when I played with it. I added a couple tickets to try and encourage them to fix it. * Increase the prominence of gitlab hosted projects on about.gitlab. Project search, trending, curated lists. - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/558 * Trending project data by language (js, ruby etc) - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/…

Thanks you for creating those insightful issues, much appreciated.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

mrmondo wrote: post #216
sytse wrote: post #198

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

Seriously Sytse, Gitlab has not only continued to improve, it's done so at rockets pace while (and here's the hard part) at the same pace also improved quality and test coverage. Do you remember a year or so ago when I was whinging about some regressions after several upgrades? Well I'll tell you what - there hasn't been any that have impacted us in such a long time upgrades - even to a major version - do not worry m…

Thank you for your kind words. I'm very glad to hear our quality is improving and you're having pain-free upgrades.

We're proud that GitLab allows everyone to contribute, even organizations without a large budget https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/

Thanks for using GitLab and writing about it https://smcleod.net/mirror-gitlab-to-github/

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

manyxcxi wrote: post #210
developer2 wrote: post #157

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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…

I've used plenty of other options- we even ran an internal GitLab instance prior to moving to BitBucket at my last company. Atlassian's suite of products are a safe bet because they're generally good products. I like the GitLab feature set more than BitBucket but when I went started my own company it was generally cheaper for my team of 5-8 to use hosted JIRA, BitBucket, and Confluence then it would be for me to pay…

If you want to use GitLab on the cheap consider using GitLab.com, it is totally free and has unlimited repo's and collaborators.

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

elygre wrote: post #217
sytse wrote: post #142

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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.

For an in-house installation, it would also be useful to have an editable front page of some sort. Here, you could publish notable projects, or perhaps the ones most sought after. It would also be a channel for news, faqs, etc. I created an issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13239 .

Thanks, you can use the branded login page for information in the homepage https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/11489

Re: GitLab 8.5 released

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Post by sytse »

hobarrera wrote: post #225
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #185

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Yeah, that was the page that convinced me I should try to join. But, "A note on the technical interview: As part of our interviewing process, you may be asked to pick an issue from the GitLab CE issue tracker, and code ‘live’ with the interviewer there to talk with and collaborate with. We do this because we believe that it is the best way for you to see what the work is really like, and for our interviewer to see ho…

Given those answers, you really seem to clash with gitlab's culture, regardless of how good a programmer you may be.

We also hire people that never contributed to open source but that are great people and are open to our values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/#values
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