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Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Thanks for yet another very smooth upgrade! I even forgot to back up the server and I have nothing to regret. I just hope that you'll fix this one tiny UI problem I noticed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19004 Other than that, I'm perfectly happy. I love the progress!

Glad to hear your upgrade was smooth. I see your issue was already labeled by our team, so I hope it will receive more attention soon.

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

#22

I really like GitLab, but again like with the last release there is no Raspberry Pi 2 package. Even though it's officially supported platform it lacks behind over 2 minor versions by now (8.7.7).

The Raspberry Pi 2 package sometimes takes longer to build. But that doesn't explain that the previous minor version didn't ship. I created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/1366 to look into this.

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your kind words. We indeed want to be the one-stop-shop from idea to production. For the complete scope see https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#scope

yeah i read the scope. but since the border between scheduling, configuration management, monitoring etc... is extremely blurry, with a high number of interconnection between systems, and lacking any kind of standard contract between them, i'm more wary about the introduction of these features.

The idea is to not do container scheduling in GitLab. We're considering adding some monitoring. Standard contracts are not easy but I think it is doable. We already shipped deploy to Kubernetes https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/22/gitlab-8-6-released/ and we're working on more. For more information about our deployment vision please see about.gitlab.com/direction/cicd

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

#24
Really interesting new features

A little feature I'm missing is to have the code coverage percentage in the slack message

A bigger one is the fact that the comment text area in code review is terribly slow on my very recent desktop in firefox, and unusable on my cellphone (it used to be ok one years ago)

I can't wait to deploy this release (we always wait one week after each release official date, just to let one or two bugfix release).

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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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

1Password TOTP https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/01/26/totp-for-1password-use... is great, we use it extensively at GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/a2885089...

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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Is there a .travis.yml -> .gitlab-ci.yml conversion tool in the work? It's the only thing preventing me from switching to gitlab really

We're not working on that as far as I know. But you'll find the format pretty familiar. See http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/quick_start/README.html and http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/README.html

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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I know this really isn't the place for this, but since sytse and other Gitlabbers frequent these threads it'd be nice to get a response. I've had an open issue on Gitlab for four months now that basically makes it unusable for me: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/548

Sorry about this. I see that GitLab team members worked on the issue and considered it closed but that the problem persists. I've asked our support lead Jose to look into it.

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

#29
Can someone explain me why workers where only alive for 6 seconds? Even now: Why are they only alive for 20 minutes and why is that even acceptable? Is it due to memory leaks?

I'd probably instantly lose my job if any of my systems would crash that often without me fixing it, regardless of the reason...

Re: GitLab 8.9 released

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post #24

Really interesting new features A little feature I'm missing is to have the code coverage percentage in the slack message A bigger one is the fact that the comment text area in code review is terribly slow on my very recent desktop in firefox, and unusable on my cellphone (it used to be ok one years ago) I can't wait to deploy this release (we always wait one week after each release official date, just to let one or…

Thanks. It should be possible to have the code coverage in the slack message. Consider opening an issue or contributing the code.

The comments text area slowness sounds bad. I've hear people complaining about slowness in Firefox before. I'm not sure how to proceed.

Not a bad idea to wait a week after the official release, we expect to have at least one patch release in this timeframe.

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