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GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by jshmrsn »

caio1982 wrote: post #69
oblio wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They definitely have a very interesting strategy, one that is well suited to their target market (= programmers). They're probably the most open company I've seen. Still, I can't justify moving off GitHub, for now. Gitlab has some growing left to do, especially on the SaaS part. Still, good luck to them :-)

"Gitlab has some growing left to do, especially on the SaaS part." Some people (say, big companies) think exactly the opposite because they are after an on-prem solution, and for that Gitlab kicks Github's ass.

GitHub offers on-prem as well. Of course it's not open source and not potentially free like GitLab https://enterprise.github.com/features

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by jobvandervoort »

ohstopitu wrote: post #67

I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .

Let us know what projects you miss seeing integrated with GitLab and we'll try our best to convince them, help them in any way to make sure it happens!

As other point out, you should be able to use GitLab CI instead of Travis, they configure very similarly. That said, I'd welcome them integrating fully with us as well.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by sytse »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #71
sytse wrote: post #60

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I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

First and foremost for me are protected branches. For everywhere I've worked, giving someone commit access to the main repository means giving them the ability to rewrite history on the release branch as well. GitLab solves that nicely by allowing committers to append only to protected branches by default. I'm also warming to the idea of treating CI as "pipelines", and find myself thinking of tooling more in that way…

Cool, thanks for that. As others noted GitHub recently also introduced protected branches. As for CI pipeline we got some great multiproject functionality coming in a few months https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22558#note_25...

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by suprememoocow »

dewiz wrote: post #25

next, I hope to see some "content" offer attached to gitlab's ecosystem, for instance a strong collaboration with stackoverflow/OSQA

Gitter has been working on a content system called Topics. https://gitter.im/gitterHQ/topics. It's still in Beta, but Q&A and structured content is definitely something that - in addition to chat - we think is important.

(edit: typo)

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by sytse »

j_s wrote: post #75
LeFever wrote: post #64

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Having never used GitLab, what do you mean by growing from a SaaS perspective?

Performance of repos on GitLab.com https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

We hear you and agree, GitLab.com is too slow. We're working on multiple things to improve it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947 GitLab 9.1 will have lots of performance improvements for database queries. The GItaly team is working hard to move git commands to the fileservers to reduce latency, that will happen in about a month from now.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by jobvandervoort »

j_s wrote: post #75
LeFever wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having never used GitLab, what do you mean by growing from a SaaS perspective?

Performance of repos on GitLab.com https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

We're working very hard on making GitLab.com much faster. Right now, it's measurably (and more importantly: measured [0]) faster than it was a month ago.

If you would like to follow progress you can dive into it all here [1]. One of the spearpoints is Gitaly, which should significantly improve git access.

[0]: http://monitor.gitlab.net/dashboard/db/fleet-overview?from=n...

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/947

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by angry-hacker »

ohstopitu wrote: post #67

I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .

Gitlab has its own CI. Are you sure you need Travis? Especially if you're the owner of project and can make a switch. Imo all open source programs should make the switch. Gitlab stands better for the community that github does.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by johnsea »

Philipp__ wrote: post #57
aaron-lebo wrote: post #48

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edit: would prefer to delete this because it's not especially constructive... Can't we be realistic about companies instead of getting wild eyed? You don't have any reservations about recent events?

Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnating. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users. I haven't seen them promoting that hard as you describe. I wrote my comment of the pure satisfaction with their services and my use case. So stop being ignoran…

Imo github has the much better user interface. I wouldn't say gl became bloated, but it is not easy to navigate around. At one point, I think, it is necessary to 'rethink' the UI, i.e. to arrange the parts into one consistent beautiful whole.

(My comment excludes the CI part)

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

connorshea wrote: post #41
caio1982 wrote: post #6

"Next piece of wow: we will be open sourcing all of the Gitter" The Gitlab folks really know how to do it. It is of course the rational approach to it, but still, that's a bold move.

For us it was natural to open the source code, we prefer to work that way. All our source code is publicly viewable and most of it is open source.

This just makes me hope you guys buy more things.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by ohstopitu »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #82
ohstopitu wrote: post #67

I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .

Let us know what projects you miss seeing integrated with GitLab and we'll try our best to convince them, help them in any way to make sure it happens! As other point out, you should be able to use GitLab CI instead of Travis, they configure very similarly. That said, I'd welcome them integrating fully with us as well.

I've used Gitlab CI before and I do like it, but TravisCI allowed for some granular control that Gitlab CI does not have (or that I am doing wrong) - for example, ability to run specific tests in case of pull/merge requests (TrasisCI has an environment variable for it).

As for other projects - the most important one for me was clubhouse.io (Gitlab Issues is great but just not as good as clubhouse.io)

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