We're working hard on making GitLab.com faster (where I also made the gifs) [0]. If you're running your own instance, it should be fast. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59
The slow loading of the community pictures in the background of the gitlab landing page (about.gitlab.com) gives the impression that it's very slow even if the relevant content on the page loads much faster. At this point Gitlab has a reputation for being slow so fighting this has to also be done at the perception level; not only ttfb level.
We're working hard on making GitLab.com faster (where I also made the gifs) [0]. If you're running your own instance, it should be fast. [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/59
Yeah, a few folks mentioned the hosted version is fine. However, I am not interested in hosting my own instance. That's said, I don't mind paying a small monthly fee if it means getting a faster cloud service on less crowded servers.
Speaking of UX, would you consider improving the look of Markdown rendered text (usually README.md ) in the repo browser? On GitHub they look great and it's a pleasure reading Markdown formatted text there. In GitLab it's however not very appealing. Headers, spacing between them and paragraphs doesn't look very good IMO. Coming from a previous job where we used GitHub and TeamCity, something I miss with GitLab is the…
Regarding Markdown renderering, from my perspective the most important improvement is reducing the line width to a better readable character length. This is already addressed [0] and on the list for the 8.14 release. I agree that the spacing can be improved. In general, my impression is that there is a good awareness for required UI improvements [1] in the GitLab team. So I’m looking forward to the upcoming releases.…
Thanks for posting Andreas. If there are other concrete things we can do to improve markdown rendering issues for them are very welcome.
Another release we're very proud of. Much of the work this release we spent on improving our idea to production flow and demos [0], things that'll trickly in over the coming releases. We're also focusing on some longer-term improvements in UX [1], and are happy to ship some nice iterations with issue boards and merge conflict resolution. Lastly, we're slowly building up review apps, which allow you to see/play with/t…
review apps are super exciting! That's the exact kind of interface I've been hoping for. I really hope it's available like the commit status api is (we use that for posting our custom CI builds). We currently have our own review app system at our company (and no hopes of switching to gitlab ci in the future - unfortunately :( ), but it'd be amazing if we could tie into it the same way we do for CI -- just "here's the…
Review apps are 'just another GitLab CI job'. But you can now set an external url in every environment. Every review app will have an environment create for it and you can add the URL there. I'm not sure the external url is in the API yet, but if not it is a question of time.
Having a lot of issues with our merge requests never merging and just spinning forever.[1] Would like Gitlab to put a little more focus on those kinds of dealbreaker issues. Would hate to give up such a great product because of things like that. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2995
Thanks for posting, I mentioned one of our issue triage specialists in the issue.
Since the GitLab folks hang around here... any chance you'll let us force a redirect to HTTPS for GitLab pages with custom domains? Loving GitLab so far though!
I'm actually not sure if we do. Can you share me a link to an example? Seems like something very GitLab-esque to support.
Looks like the issue [0] had a milestone of 8.13 but it is still open. So, it didn't make the release? [0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2508
It didn't make it, I've asked our VP of Product to assign a new milestone.
Having a lot of issues with our merge requests never merging and just spinning forever.[1] Would like Gitlab to put a little more focus on those kinds of dealbreaker issues. Would hate to give up such a great product because of things like that. [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2995
Thanks for posting, I mentioned one of our issue triage specialists in the issue.
Great! Responses like these really make me like you guys :)