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Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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I recently registered to try gitlab. I received unprecedented large amounts of spam from them daily with no unsubscribe button. I finally emailed them to stop the spam and they did but not completely I received more but had unsubscribe this time. Unsubscribed so lets see what happens. One more spam and I will close my account and never try them again GitHub is great, does the job incredibly well, doesn't get in the w…

I'm curious what kind of spam you were receiving. I'm not sure I've ever received unsolicited email from them.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#32

I recently registered to try gitlab. I received unprecedented large amounts of spam from them daily with no unsubscribe button. I finally emailed them to stop the spam and they did but not completely I received more but had unsubscribe this time. Unsubscribed so lets see what happens. One more spam and I will close my account and never try them again GitHub is great, does the job incredibly well, doesn't get in the w…

I'm curious what kind of spam you were receiving. I'm not sure I've ever received unsolicited email from them.

Marketing stuff. And I am not against them marketing their features but it should have had an unsubscribe button and sent in moderation in my opinion.

Interesting that I get downvoted for giving honest feedback. I would have thought it would help them improve seeing how different marketing ideas impact their users.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious what kind of spam you were receiving. I'm not sure I've ever received unsolicited email from them.

Marketing stuff. And I am not against them marketing their features but it should have had an unsubscribe button and sent in moderation in my opinion. Interesting that I get downvoted for giving honest feedback. I would have thought it would help them improve seeing how different marketing ideas impact their users.

Gotcha - interesting. Just as another anecdote - I signed up ~8 months ago and have never received any non-transactional (marketing) emails.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#34
post #27

This is nice and all but what about page load times? It can have all the bells and whistles but if you have to wait a minute for just one page to load, it's unusable.

We've spent quite a bit of time this year improving performance, GitLab.com is still slower than it should be but it's a lot better now than it was in January. Self-hosted instances that meet the recommended specs are already fairly performant, though we're always working to improve things regardless. As mentioned in the blog post, this release we decreased page size a lot (from 1800kb to 718kb for a given Merge Requ…

Don't know exactly why you decided against moving to bare metal, but IMO you definitely should. We've got tremendous improvements moving to metal. I also can't recommend OVH enough. Best price on market plus great hardware and uptime. Technical support isn't the best but you shouldn't need it anyway.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#35

I'm curious how you guys build features for EE. Is it a completely separate Rails project you handle manually to keep base features in sync with the community edition? EE is open source but requires a license. Do you just trust companies won't download the source code and run it. Do you have heartbeat code injected somewhere to ping servers that are running EE to homebase? I'm thinking of starting a project, charge m…

>EE is open source

It is _not_. You cannot distribute it. That makes it not open source.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#36

I recently registered to try gitlab. I received unprecedented large amounts of spam from them daily with no unsubscribe button. I finally emailed them to stop the spam and they did but not completely I received more but had unsubscribe this time. Unsubscribed so lets see what happens. One more spam and I will close my account and never try them again GitHub is great, does the job incredibly well, doesn't get in the w…

That's really strange; I received an email today, with the previous emails being on the 8th and on Nov. 22. What is the contents of the emails, and what address are they from? Are they duplicate emails? Sounds like someone impersonating GitLab.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#37

I love how easy the integration with Openshift is. Does anyone have any resources to get a Openshift Kubernetes cluster setup?

Actually, it's incredibly easy, especially in tandem with CentOS Atomic Host. Here's my setup at work I just deployed last month:

osm01-03 - OpenShift masters, don't run anything other than OpenShift services (Atomic host)

osn01-03 - OpenShift nodes, actually run the apps (Atomic host)

osnlb - Load balancer for the master (CentOS 7)

oss - NFS server providing storage for OpenShift docker images (CentOS 7)

On your storage node make sure /exports is on a separate filesystem with adequate storage to store your container images, it will be set up automatically from there.

Once you have these couple servers spun up (You can skip the multiple masters + load balancer if you don't care about HA, though I recommend it) from a CentOS box you want to deploy from make sure you push an SSH key out to all the servers for root access then run the following.

    yum install centos-release-openshift-origin 
    yum --enablerepo=centos-openshift-origin-testing install atomic-openshift-utils 
    atomic-openshift-installer install
Walk through the installer, making sure you pick "OpenShift Origin" to install the upstream (non-commercial) build, say "container-based" for every atomic system you have, and tell it which are your HAProxy (load balancer) and Storage servers, plus what your default domain will be (I recommend using either a subdomain of your existing corporate domain, or buying a new one for openshift use). After you're done specifying your configuration it will generate an ansible playbook and stash it in ~/.config/openshift and start building your cluster out. Once it's done you just need to set up your DNS entries (whatever your master hostname is should point at your load balancer, then I recommend you add a wildcard DNS entry for whatever domain you chose and point it at all of your nodes). The last thing you'll need to do is configure authentication [1] as by default it will take any username/password combo, and setup the default builder images [2]

[1]: https://docs.openshift.com/enterprise/3.0/admin_guide/config...

[2]: https://docs.openshift.com/enterprise/3.0/install_config/ins...

Sorry for the wall of text, I spent two days figuring this out myself - but after a month in production my team is loving OpenShift and we've already deployed three greenfield apps on it. It's getting a lot more love than I ever expected, and I'm already looking at needing to give my node VM's more resources. Feel free to email me at the address in my profile if you have any questions.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#38
post #37

I love how easy the integration with Openshift is. Does anyone have any resources to get a Openshift Kubernetes cluster setup?

Actually, it's incredibly easy, especially in tandem with CentOS Atomic Host. Here's my setup at work I just deployed last month: osm01-03 - OpenShift masters, don't run anything other than OpenShift services (Atomic host) osn01-03 - OpenShift nodes, actually run the apps (Atomic host) osnlb - Load balancer for the master (CentOS 7) oss - NFS server providing storage for OpenShift docker images (CentOS 7) On your sto…

Great! Thanks for the write-up.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#39
Are there notable projects or organizations moved to gitlab.com?

On top of my head I only know f-droid that is there. I use it for personal use and love it, would love if more projects moved away from github.com, especially open source.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

#40

I recently registered to try gitlab. I received unprecedented large amounts of spam from them daily with no unsubscribe button. I finally emailed them to stop the spam and they did but not completely I received more but had unsubscribe this time. Unsubscribed so lets see what happens. One more spam and I will close my account and never try them again GitHub is great, does the job incredibly well, doesn't get in the w…

That's really strange; I received an email today, with the previous emails being on the 8th and on Nov. 22. What is the contents of the emails, and what address are they from? Are they duplicate emails? Sounds like someone impersonating GitLab.

taking a quick look:

community@gitlab.com news@gitlab.com kris@gitlab.com

All marketing their features and help to get started. Like I said nothing wrong with sending this kind of email just over a certain period in moderation.

Everything in life is relative isn't it :-)

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