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Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by dimitrieh »

problems wrote: post #8
1123581321 wrote: post #7

We're evaluating source control right now (have repos all over the place) and I'm wondering if anyone can comment on the Github $25/mo plan vs. Gitlab's and Bitbucket's comparable offerings. It seems like the built-in CI is an advantage for Bitbucket and Gitlab, but I wonder what gotchas we're not seeing right now.

If you're looking for the hosted version, there's lots of complaints about GitLab.com's performance. Bitbucket is quite excellent and integrates well with hosted JIRA too - I'd say it's arguably a better option than GitHub in many cases. I've had good luck with self-hosted GitLab's performance in my small group, but I've heard tales of others who haven't, so try before you buy if you're doing that. The CI integration…

Hi, GitLab UX Designer here. I would like to add that GitLab has put tremendous efforts in optimizing for performance lately. These performance optimisations optimise GitLab instances big and small. These improvements were triggered by having literally millions of users and projects on GitLab.com which is our hosted solution.

For self-hosted GitLab instances run on a smaller scale, there should not even be a chance of performance hits :).

Just to give a good overview of what GitLab is offering for both self-hosted as well as our hosted solution of GitLab.com please look at https://about.gitlab.com/features/

I am happy to hear that the CI/CD integration, which is our native solution for CI/CD and beyond is being well received! We want to persuade not force users to use our native solutions.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by dimitrieh »

fny wrote: post #2

God bless you all. I was on the verge of setting up a Gitlab CI instance on a local box for our projects since we're about to outstrip the free tier. Upgrading will be way less expensive for my client and me.

Happy to hear so! GitLab.com should be able to offer all the features you need if you wish not to self-host!

Happy GitLabbing!

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by jasonrhaas »

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months.

I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by clemmakesapps »

dimitrieh wrote: post #11
problems wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're looking for the hosted version, there's lots of complaints about GitLab.com's performance. Bitbucket is quite excellent and integrates well with hosted JIRA too - I'd say it's arguably a better option than GitHub in many cases. I've had good luck with self-hosted GitLab's performance in my small group, but I've heard tales of others who haven't, so try before you buy if you're doing that. The CI integration…

Hi, GitLab UX Designer here. I would like to add that GitLab has put tremendous efforts in optimizing for performance lately. These performance optimisations optimise GitLab instances big and small. These improvements were triggered by having literally millions of users and projects on GitLab.com which is our hosted solution. For self-hosted GitLab instances run on a smaller scale, there should not even be a chance o…

GitLab frontend engineer here. Also wanted to add that performance improvement is a big part of our OKRs for our Q3 and are viewable at https://about.gitlab.com/okrs/

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by mydigitalself »

jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by connorshea »

jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

Thanks, we'll keep making the product better. :) Glad to hear you're happy with the transition!

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by jasonrhaas »

mydigitalself wrote: post #15
jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

Thank you for the kind words, we've been working hard on improving the UI (have you tried the latest update in https://gitlab.com/profile/preferences#new-navigation ) and have tried to make our free offering as valuable as possible as well as treating our existing free customers respectfully.

I am using the new navigation, love it.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by brianwawok »

Fun plot twist about at least self hosted Gitlab..

You are charged per user. When you install on your own server, it automatically makes an "admin" user. And then you get billed for this user. Despite never using him or doing anything with him, apparently a shell of a user costs a $4 licensing cost per month.

They really need to clean up the setup workflow, I have literally never used a piece of software that charged for a default account no one uses.

Fun plot twist: They let you go over your license count, and if I am reading billing correctly will bill you when you do a yearly renew for a full YEAR penalty for any user that went over, even if you added that user on the last possible day of the year. So day 364 of license.. add 1 user over license... your next license will have a penalty of 1 full year for that user. You need to go and add a user manually on the website which does some kind of weird proration to not pay this penalty.

Send feedback but not too hopeful it was heard, so always the post to hacker news plan...

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by jasonrhaas »

jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

While I'm at it, I may as well offer some other feedback as well:

Pros

- UI is top notch

- Love the built in features (pipelines, CI/CD, docker registry)

- Private repos, free stuff

Cons

- Performance is improving, but still seems a bit slow at times

- Pipelines could be a bit faster. The build and test times seem to vary a lot per commit.

- Better documentation on pipelines and the .gitlab-ci.yml file. It seems a bit fragmented and scattered over a few documents.

- Maybe offer to add a default .gitignore in the repo, and a basic README (like github). Cloning an empty repo makes me sad.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by awill »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

I'd agree with this. gitea outperforms gitlab by a mile.
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