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Re: Gitlab 9.0

#3

Post by ploggingdev »

The performance improvements are very noticeable : general page load times, pushing code to gitlab is as fast as github now and the commit messages load insanely fast, compared to a few months ago where loading commit messages in the UI used to take at least a couple of seconds. I don't follow gitlab development too closely, but they seem to have focused a lot on improving cache performance.

But one change that I did not like was the the removal of the side panel which could be pinned. Navigation required fewer steps, but now an extra click is required to bring up the options.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

#4

Post by victorwu »

ploggingdev wrote: post #3

The performance improvements are very noticeable : general page load times, pushing code to gitlab is as fast as github now and the commit messages load insanely fast, compared to a few months ago where loading commit messages in the UI used to take at least a couple of seconds. I don't follow gitlab development too closely, but they seem to have focused a lot on improving cache performance. But one change that I did…

Thanks for the feedback regarding the sidebar navigation! Here's the issue that we used to chat extensively about it and came to our current design here in 9.0: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26200

There's lots of discussion there. We went with a design that leans on getting out of your way and recovers some screen real-estate. We do recognize the one additional click required though. And we are actively listening to feedback and will continue to iterate.

We're working hard to improve usability and navigation in general. In addition to this sidebar change, we've made many nav updates: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26348.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

#5

Post by jhasse »

No more fixed header and pages properly reload when I click on a link (spinning icon in the tab). Awesome! These were my major UI gripes in GitLab 8.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

#6

Post by sytse »

ploggingdev wrote: post #3

The performance improvements are very noticeable : general page load times, pushing code to gitlab is as fast as github now and the commit messages load insanely fast, compared to a few months ago where loading commit messages in the UI used to take at least a couple of seconds. I don't follow gitlab development too closely, but they seem to have focused a lot on improving cache performance. But one change that I did…

Great to hear you notice the performance improvements. We're very happy with the improvements but we still have long way to go. We want the 99% latency under 1s and right now it is 2s: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQDcBnEfNRZSTZYVXlyc1FGdEk...

There are some controller timings that are red https://drive.google.com/a/gitlab.com/file/d/0BzQDcBnEfNRZZV...

And the git access timings are a sea of red https://drive.google.com/a/gitlab.com/file/d/0BzQDcBnEfNRZTz...

Git access will be improved now that we have Gitaly as part of this release. In GitLab 9.1 we want to move git access from the application server to the file server. That should greatly reduce the latency.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

#8

Post by tomc1985 »

Gitlab was really promising for my colleagues and I, but its inability to host git repos on the url root (aka gitrepo.mycompany.com/product.git) without hacking means its a no-go as we're not particularly inclined to redo all our development, deployment, and testing infrastructure. We use git a lot in our organization, including customer-facing stuff, so it would be a large transition.

Also stubborn coworkers who don't want to monkey with git settings.

Which is a shame, I really like gitlab and would love to replace gitolite :/

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by victorwu »

ploggingdev wrote: post #3

The performance improvements are very noticeable : general page load times, pushing code to gitlab is as fast as github now and the commit messages load insanely fast, compared to a few months ago where loading commit messages in the UI used to take at least a couple of seconds. I don't follow gitlab development too closely, but they seem to have focused a lot on improving cache performance. But one change that I did…

The ongoing discussion regarding the sidebar/navigation is here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29835. Thanks again for the feedback.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by kozikow »

What convinced me to try out gitlab today: "Today with 9.0, we are excited to release Deploy Boards for environments running on Kubernetes. The Environments page of Pipelines now offers a single place to view the current health and deployment status of each environment, displaying the specific status of each pod in the deployment. Developers and other teammates can view the progress and status of a rollout, pod by pod, in the workflow they already use without any need to access Kubernetes."
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