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Re: Gitter is open source

#61

Post by richardknop »

bad_user wrote: post #59
richardknop wrote: post #50

Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure. Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make differen…

I do wonder what your comment has to do with the freaking topic.

I clicked on the title of this post which links to gitlab repository page. And I was frustrated with the UI while trying to find out more about this project.

Re: Gitter is open source

#62

Post by cmatija »

siliconc0w wrote: post #8

Asking users to run mongo, es, neo4j, and redis is a tall order. Mattermost just needs (AFAIK) a relational database. Also, less relevant but the Gitlab UI has far too much wasted whitespace. Like 85% of the page is navigation. I like open source competitors to incumbents but maybe just copy Github here - no one is gonna say anything.

Hiya,

Sorry to hear you're displeased with our UI. We'd love to hear any suggestions you might have. We're always looking to improve as much as we can. You can open an issue in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

Re: Gitter is open source

#63

Post by kobeya »

richardknop wrote: post #61
bad_user wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do wonder what your comment has to do with the freaking topic.

I clicked on the title of this post which links to gitlab repository page. And I was frustrated with the UI while trying to find out more about this project.

Still, the topic is gitter. Please help keep HN noise free and useful by staying on topic.

Re: Gitter is open source

#64

Post by kobeya »

suprememoocow wrote: post #19
volent wrote: post #7

If you go through the commit history you can see that they removed a lot of secret keys from the repo. What if the main reason why people don't want to opensource their project is because they don't know how to use their secret keys without including them in the repo ?

Andrew, co-founder of Gitter here. Removing secrets was a lot of work - more than I expected - while we open-sourced the product. I agree with your sentiment though. Handling secrets in a codebase is not something that it currently easy or standardised. As an aside, BFG Repo Cleaner really helped a lot with cleaning things up: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

It's been my impression that the standard (promoted by services like Heroku and Travis) is to pass secrets as environment variables.

Re: Gitter is open source

#66

Post by majkinetor »

cmatija wrote: post #53
richardknop wrote: post #50

Gitlab UI is truly horrid compared to Github. When I go to a repository page on Gitlab, the navigation and whitespace takes around 80% of my screen. On Github I can immediately see the directory structure. Also the colour scheme is bad IMO, everything is a light shade of grey, hard to quickly navigate the page as things look all the same while scrolling. Try using some darker shades and more contrast to make differen…

Hiya, Anything specific about the UI you'd suggest changing? We'd love to hear your feedback so we can improve. Feel free to suggest improvements in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues

I agree with commenter. My particular problems (not all about UI).

- Submenu is so gray its hardly visible (the one showing files, commits etc)

- Pipeline interface is horrible. If job is manual it cant be executed from the job page or repeated with latest code without resurfing trough menu.

- Project builds can not be deleted in bulk without using API

- Public projest are basically hidden, I have to explain to everybody how to find something.

- Snippets do not have comments if not part of project.

- Code review not possible outside of commit.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by suprememoocow »

kobeya wrote: post #64
suprememoocow wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Andrew, co-founder of Gitter here. Removing secrets was a lot of work - more than I expected - while we open-sourced the product. I agree with your sentiment though. Handling secrets in a codebase is not something that it currently easy or standardised. As an aside, BFG Repo Cleaner really helped a lot with cleaning things up: https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

It's been my impression that the standard (promoted by services like Heroku and Travis) is to pass secrets as environment variables.

Fair enough: this is exactly what we've moved to on Gitter on Gitter since open-sourcing the product.

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by cmatija »

mkesper wrote: post #2

Page should tell at first glance what gitter DOES.

Thanks for pointing this out.

I opened an issue about having a description of the project in the landing page: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/issues/1746

There's also https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32794 which always shows you where you are (within GitLab), which is tangentially related

Re: Gitter is open source

#69

Post by suprememoocow »

nik736 wrote: post #65

Is there any option on GitLab to see instantly in what language a repo is written? (Like GitHub does)

From the project page, choose Repository | Charts.

Beware though, it's pretty slow right now.

It might be quicker to just look at a screenshot of it instead http://imgur.com/a/qBGVf

For reference:

   JavaScript 86.45 %
   CSS 6.79 %
   HTML 4.79 %
   Shell 1.07 %
   Lua 0.82 %
   Makefile 0.05 %
   Groovy 0.03 %
   Python 0.01 %

Re: Gitter is open source

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Post by kronos29296 »

kobeya wrote: post #38
kronos29296 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe something like GNU social. They already use Gitlab CE for the repos. Add gitter and we have replaced IRC.

You say that as if it's a good thing...

IRC is not going anywhere but projects like neovim use gitter primarily while IRC is linked using a bot. They view the IRC chat in gitter.

Dunno if Gitter is better than IRC as I have only used for help and support (for me) but Gitter was far easier to use than IRC. Just Login and start chatting.

I don't think IRC is going anywhere either... We just have alternatives to freenode now in Gitter

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