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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#91
The inconsistent and non-sensical font and white space on the new profile pages is giving me an indescribable form of anxiety. If anybody out from the GH design team is out there, please put it back to how it was. :(.

Example: https://github.com/Miserlou

10 font sizes is too many for any one page.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#93

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> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab - Open Source - Free private repos - Free self-host (edit to add "Free") - Everything in one spot (repos, ci, review, coding environment, etc...)

> Open source* The Enterprise edition features[1] are closed source, and these aren't strictly "enterprise-y" features like SAML authentication. It includes plenty of "basic" workflow features found on GitHub: - Rebase merge requests before merge - Use fast-forward merges when possible - Create templates for issues and merge requests - Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI [1] https://about.gitlab.com…

Use fast-forward merges when possible

GitHub (annoyingly) can't do fast-forward merges from non-squashed PRs either.

Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI

GitLab implements basically the same API as GitHub for updating build status of commits from external services, or do I misunderstand what feature you mean?

But in general I agree, there are some options GitLab reserved for EE that really feel like they should be part of the CE as well.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#94
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. and self-hosting :-)

github has self-hosting. It is a little pricey but that is not a product differentiator.

No-one said it was.

But the answer of self-hosting is a perfectly valid answer for "Why the love for GitLab?" when one = $0 in licensing, and the other = > $2,500/year in licensing.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#95

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

>projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. This is really not about replacing those services, it's more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.

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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#96
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. and self-hosting :-)

github has self-hosting. It is a little pricey but that is not a product differentiator.

If I can only afford one, then the price is definitely a differentiator.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab - Open Source - Free private repos - Free self-host (edit to add "Free") - Everything in one spot (repos, ci, review, coding environment, etc...)

> Open source* The Enterprise edition features[1] are closed source, and these aren't strictly "enterprise-y" features like SAML authentication. It includes plenty of "basic" workflow features found on GitHub: - Rebase merge requests before merge - Use fast-forward merges when possible - Create templates for issues and merge requests - Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI [1] https://about.gitlab.com…

Take a look at Phabricator. It's a former Facebook project and been battle-tested at very large companies for years now. Huge open source projects like Blender, Haskell, Wikimedia and LLVM use it since it's the best open source code review tool and issue tracker. Wikimedia had a lengthy decision process and thoroughly vetted the alternatives.

It has many enterprise features including code ownership, issue templates, and a Gerrit like, sane code review workflow. You can fully integrate it with your CI tool and it even displays coverage results inline and such.

Ask me anything about it :) I'm not affiliated with it but am an experienced user.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#98
post #63

There's some nice stuff here -- probably some of it that I'll use -- but most of this is targeted at organisations (and in particular, managers and administrators) rather than individual developers. Understandable -- it's clearly companies that are paying the bills these days -- but a little disappointing given the extent to which GitHub got big by attracting lone hackers and little open source projects. If somebody…

This isn't a random shift in direction for github... in the end it will make the platform so complex and irrelevant for open source teams that they will go elsewhere. I wrote an analysis of this shift some time back: http://hintjens.com/blog:111

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#99

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

>projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. This is really not about replacing those services, it's more about building a better foundation for integrators like Waffle and ZenHub to build on.

Except all those services have already built a foundation ...

This will inevitably force out GH's integration partners once users start to complain how feature-deficient projects are in their current state.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#100
post #91

The inconsistent and non-sensical font and white space on the new profile pages is giving me an indescribable form of anxiety. If anybody out from the GH design team is out there, please put it back to how it was. :(. Example: https://github.com/Miserlou 10 font sizes is too many for any one page.

Agreed--trigger warning needed ;)
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