GitLab 8.9 released

#1

Post by pointnova » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 5:16 PM UTC

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

#2

Post by ech » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

gitlab is gearing up to be the one-stop-shop from development to production. i really like that. unifying the toolset developers and ops have to understand is really a boon for everybody involved.

merge restriction as a feature may sound silly, but in my experience, when driving organizations toward CI/CD, especially with "mature" organizations, having the computer say no instead of a human is a major facilitator in adoption of good practices. now we just need to protect tests in tree. (currently, i tend to favor tests as a git submodule, so we can prevent chronic offenders from altering/commenting tests that should pass)

plus U2F integration, so now i won't hear anymore how "terribly slow" it is to have to whip out a phone to grab a TOTP code...

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

#3

Post by darklajid » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 6:46 PM UTC

ech wrote: post #2

gitlab is gearing up to be the one-stop-shop from development to production. i really like that. unifying the toolset developers and ops have to understand is really a boon for everybody involved. merge restriction as a feature may sound silly, but in my experience, when driving organizations toward CI/CD, especially with "mature" organizations, having the computer say no instead of a human is a major facilitator in…

Isn't U2F a Chrome only feature at the moment?

Are you using that seriously already?

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Post by intsunny » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 6:49 PM UTC

Will repo deploy tokens ever be a thing? I would like read-only deploy tokens associated to a repo, and not a user. I just don't like having to create dummy users with repo access to generate deploy tokens.

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

#5

Post by Snappy » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

ech wrote: post #2

gitlab is gearing up to be the one-stop-shop from development to production. i really like that. unifying the toolset developers and ops have to understand is really a boon for everybody involved. merge restriction as a feature may sound silly, but in my experience, when driving organizations toward CI/CD, especially with "mature" organizations, having the computer say no instead of a human is a major facilitator in…

Thanks! Glad you like the direction!

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Post by lsllc » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:14 PM UTC

intsunny wrote: post #4

Will repo deploy tokens ever be a thing? I would like read-only deploy tokens associated to a repo, and not a user. I just don't like having to create dummy users with repo access to generate deploy tokens.

+1

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Post by reipahb » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

intsunny wrote: post #4

Will repo deploy tokens ever be a thing? I would like read-only deploy tokens associated to a repo, and not a user. I just don't like having to create dummy users with repo access to generate deploy tokens.

Isn't that what deploy keys are for? See: http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ssh/README.html#deploy-keys

Deploy keys give read-only access to clone a repository, and they are associated directly with the repository.

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Post by jwcrux » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

How often is File Locking needed? I thought that was one of the beautiful things about Git - merging de-conflicting is not only a thing, but easy to do...

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Post by mdaniel » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

ech wrote: post #2

gitlab is gearing up to be the one-stop-shop from development to production. i really like that. unifying the toolset developers and ops have to understand is really a boon for everybody involved. merge restriction as a feature may sound silly, but in my experience, when driving organizations toward CI/CD, especially with "mature" organizations, having the computer say no instead of a human is a major facilitator in…

> plus U2F integration, so now i won't hear anymore how "terribly slow" it is to have to whip out a phone to grab a TOTP code...

I don't know if this applies to you, but 1Password 6 has support for generating TOTP passwords (they have a neato QR scanner built in, or one can always just input the key or key URI by hand)

It's been a revolutionary change in my day-to-day frustration level

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Post by juandazapata » Wed, Jun 22, 2016, 7:31 PM UTC

It's fantastic for us that Gitlab keeps putting pressure on Github. I hope they keep this strike for a long time. Having said that, they really must improve the performance. I tried to make the switch from Github to Gitlab a couple of months ago, but the general speed and responsiveness is just below the line.

Keep up the good work.