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GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

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Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#11
A tiny question: does this mean a workflow in which only one user would be able to merge a specific branch (say: master) is only available in the enterprise edition? I imagine this is quite a common workflow, even at smaller companies or non-profits. This essentially forces you to use an entire repo per user to do code review, even though oftentimes you wouldn't need this when you can restrict branch access to a specific (set of) users.

For example, I'm active at a small non-profit computer shop at the campus of my university, and we develop our own stock managementsystem inhouse. This would be a very interesting feature even for non-enterprise users like us, because that'd allow for easy code reviews without having to fork the repo.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#12
Is it a matter of taste or Github's UI indeed looks more professional than Gitlab's one? I've tried to switch from GH to GL hosted for my personal projects multiple times and no luck. I like the fact that Gitlab is open-source and it has a lot of features but I still don't feel comfortable using it. Any opinions and preferences on GH's UI vs. GL's UI?

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#13
Shouldn't the video start with "We make software by turning issues into ideas", not the other way around?

We're always trying to promote this idea of "don't sell the product, sell the problem you're solving" and your opening statement completely tips that on its head.

Not knocking GitLab in any way, I love your product and have used it for a while. Amazing work. Just me being a pedant ;)

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#14

Is it a matter of taste or Github's UI indeed looks more professional than Gitlab's one? I've tried to switch from GH to GL hosted for my personal projects multiple times and no luck. I like the fact that Gitlab is open-source and it has a lot of features but I still don't feel comfortable using it. Any opinions and preferences on GH's UI vs. GL's UI?

If we're talking only about the UI, I have to admit that GL's UI bothers me too. I wouldn't say that it's not professional, I feel like it's really really similar to GH in terms of links, buttons, etc, but made different (and less usable) on purpose to not be exactly like GH's.

In terms of product/features, GitLab is so much better than GH though.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#15
Congrats to the Gitlab team for pushing this out the door so quickly!

Back when we built one of ZenHub’s [1] first features — task boards inside GitHub — we believed strongly that development teams needed a single source of truth in order to move faster and communicate better. That belief has underscored everything we’ve built since. It’s awesome to see further validation for this philosophy here with Gitlab!

[1] https://www.zenhub.com/

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#17

Is it a matter of taste or Github's UI indeed looks more professional than Gitlab's one? I've tried to switch from GH to GL hosted for my personal projects multiple times and no luck. I like the fact that Gitlab is open-source and it has a lot of features but I still don't feel comfortable using it. Any opinions and preferences on GH's UI vs. GL's UI?

GitHub has a better container in their CSS. GitLab defaults to letting text lines be overly long and this just makes the whole thing feel uncomfortable even if you think you don't mind it. Otherwise, I think GitLab is largely alright UI.

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#18
I have yet to understand where this kanban board stuff makes sense. Apparently, the Agile philosophy [0] introduced this to the software development world. Most implementations (Gitlab, Wekan) seem to miss central features (limits, cycle time stats).

I guess those boards serve as a issue tracker extension for short term development? How does that improve the process? Why do you need that on top of an issue tracker? Replacing the issue tracker is probably not idea?

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#19

We're super proud of this release. As always, we're here for any questions or comments.

The issue boards are a big deal, so congrats on getting that out!

I've said this before, but one huge thing you guys could do that would draw in a lot of companies to Gitlab EE is if you supported custom issue fields [1][2] with various field types. That feels like a pretty logical place to go from here, so I hope you guys are strongly considering it.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/8988 [2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14884

Re: GitLab 8.11 Released with Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Resolution

#20

Is it a matter of taste or Github's UI indeed looks more professional than Gitlab's one? I've tried to switch from GH to GL hosted for my personal projects multiple times and no luck. I like the fact that Gitlab is open-source and it has a lot of features but I still don't feel comfortable using it. Any opinions and preferences on GH's UI vs. GL's UI?

I think GH gives off this impression because the UI looks like it has more stuff going on at the same time. It's probably an illusion caused by GH's design having more contrast between elements. GL is trying to look minimalistic like a clean sheet of paper. But that's kind of my issue with GL's interface: the contrast between elements is so low that it really looks like a blank sheet of white paper. But it's not paper, it's an active screen, so it feels very straining. Sometimes I feel like it's burning my eyes. I get used to it after a while, but it's an issue.
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