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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

funkyy wrote: post #34
jobvandervoort wrote: post #21

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I can understand that you feel this is unfair. Here's our point of view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529780

This does not sound like point of view, just a generic, corporate style message that does not address the issue in any way. Rewarding only new customers is mobile phone operators style bite that decreases value of the brand and product. In this situation hosting company knows its not easy to move the servers to different host (at most cases) and uses that as an advantage to milk the customers more. If they ever would…

Sorry if I sounder a bit generic. I'm GitLab's CEO so I can't comment in the name of DigitalOcean. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529957

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by awinter-py »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #26
awinter-py wrote: post #22

I use self-hosted gitlab as my primary CI and love it. Setting up CI runners is still too complicated (maybe because I use the gitlab docker image and there's no compose support). drone.io seems to have better support for deploying & cleaning up images, but I'm sure gitlab will get there.

Great to hear. We're working on making deploy [0] and working with Docker images [1] easier. That should also include cleanup in time. I owe you a reply regarding Docker Compose support. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3286 [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/634274

Thanks -- didn't realize they added an artifacts key to the CI yaml.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by funkyy »

sytse wrote: post #41
funkyy wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does not sound like point of view, just a generic, corporate style message that does not address the issue in any way. Rewarding only new customers is mobile phone operators style bite that decreases value of the brand and product. In this situation hosting company knows its not easy to move the servers to different host (at most cases) and uses that as an advantage to milk the customers more. If they ever would…

Sorry if I sounder a bit generic. I'm GitLab's CEO so I can't comment in the name of DigitalOcean. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529957

Ah no problem, just pointing out its not really explanation or anything that could bring more in to this issue. Thanks for being responsive though.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

exabrial wrote: post #38
jobvandervoort wrote: post #14

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Thanks. That's really great to hear! Although we still have ways to go, we recently made large strides in terms of performance and UX. Two areas we know we were lacking in, in the past. I'd love to hear what we can improve further.

Stability, it's made leaps and bounds in the last 9 months, but every time you push a new feature make sure it "just works" and doesn't break other things. Thanks!

Good to hear we got more stable of the last 9 months. I'm excited about the upcoming release (the 22nd as usual) that will have many UX improvements and bugfixes. We try to ship new features fast and quickly fix issues that arise. But we're not happy with our testing of core functionality. So today I discussed writing more end-to-end tests as proposed by our new VP of Product, Stan Hu.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

funkyy wrote: post #43
sytse wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry if I sounder a bit generic. I'm GitLab's CEO so I can't comment in the name of DigitalOcean. Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529957

Ah no problem, just pointing out its not really explanation or anything that could bring more in to this issue. Thanks for being responsive though.

Thanks for understanding.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by oridecon »

phillc73 wrote: post #18

> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only. This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general comment as I see this customer acquisition ruse quite a lot elsewhere too. I spend money with DigitalOcean. I don't feel particularly rewarded for my loyalty when I can't enjoy the same promotion…

and make sure you use the credits as soon as possible

http://pastebin.com/enmCYWbH

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

asimuvPR wrote: post #37
jobvandervoort wrote: post #14

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Thanks. That's really great to hear! Although we still have ways to go, we recently made large strides in terms of performance and UX. Two areas we know we were lacking in, in the past. I'd love to hear what we can improve further.

This is super nice. After the "Dear Github" letter I moved to gitlab and have not looked back. Its great to see this project grow in a manner that respect the community that adopts it.

Thanks asimuvPR! BTW For our 'Dear Open Source Maintainers' letter please see https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/15/making-gitlab-better-for...

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

d33 wrote: post #32
sytse wrote: post #19

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At GitLab we try to cherish our contributors. Every month we celebrate a most valuable contributor https://about.gitlab.com/mvp/ We try to ship great new features in our open source version every month that you can use for free on your server and on GitLab.com EDIT I can't comment for DigitalOcean, what follows is my personal opinion. I think it is great that DigitalOcean is willing to both sponsor the Runners for Gi…

The thing is that I would enjoy it as well if I just signed up. I actually feel offended by that.

I'm sorry to hear that. I edited my answer to make clear it was my opinion as GitLab CEO, I'm not speaking for DigitalOcean.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by sytse »

awinter-py wrote: post #42
jobvandervoort wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great to hear. We're working on making deploy [0] and working with Docker images [1] easier. That should also include cleanup in time. I owe you a reply regarding Docker Compose support. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3286 [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/634274

Thanks -- didn't realize they added an artifacts key to the CI yaml.

You're welcome. To read more about build artifacts please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ci/build_artifacts/README.html
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