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

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Post by Sir_Substance »

brianwawok wrote: post #23
mattl wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I typically make the default user my account, but you can also delete that account if you like I believe.

But opps you went over your license count by 1 when creating your user, so your next renewal you will pay a penalty for that admin user.

I understand that this is a flaw, and indeed a billing-related flaw at that, and I agree it merits fixing and maybe even some refunds/discounts to make up the difference.

But at the same time, you seem to be super-concerned about what is essentially a one-time overcharge of (apparently) between $4 and $48, and I feel like I would struggle to muster the emotion you seem to feel over that. If you're posting this at work you may have just wasted more than $4 worth of your salaried time making these posts and reading the responses.

I get what you're saying, but I raise my eyebrow over the vitrol with which you say it, and wonder if perhaps there's something else you're not telling us?

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

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Post by KallDrexx »

clemmakesapps wrote: post #14
dimitrieh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

I'm glad that it's such a priority that it's an OKR now, but there are public Gitlab issues talking about performance for the past 2 years. We did a full migration to Gitlab 3-6 months ago and had to migrate out into Bitbucket only a couple days later, as basic browsing operations proved to be way too consistently slow and was extremely aggravating.

It will take a lot to prove to us that hosted Gitlab is actually good performance "for reals this time".

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

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Post by riffic »

brianwawok wrote: post #25
riffic wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please do not spread misinformation via HN. Self-hosted GitLab CE (Community Edition) is and remains free

Do you even go to their page? https://about.gitlab.com/products/ Look at EES and EEP

Thank you.

I'm aware that Enterprise Edition exists, although your comment relies on the reader to assume that as well.

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

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Post by MikeKusold »

I use GitLab for private personal projects, and in general I'm supportive of most of these changes.

Some paid features that I think are still useful to teams under 3 people:

* Block secret file push

* Various merge options (squash, rebase, etc...)

* Export issues as CSV

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

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Post by smarx007 »

MikeKusold wrote: post #44

I use GitLab for private personal projects, and in general I'm supportive of most of these changes. Some paid features that I think are still useful to teams under 3 people: * Block secret file push * Various merge options (squash, rebase, etc...) * Export issues as CSV

I think squash and merge is absolutely essential!

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

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Post by zschuessler »

brainfire wrote: post #40
zschuessler wrote: post #33

This makes me slightly worried. I'm fine with paying for a service like Gitlab's hosted instance (and will start paying for it), it's a pretty good service. The UI isn't amazing but the tools are better IMO than GitHub's.. last time I checked, anyway. What worries me is that as a heavy user of self-hosted CE, I see frequently that many features that I would like are enterprise (EE) only. Something like doing an IP wh…

There's a configuration option in the omnibus CE config file to add additional lines to the built-in nginx configuration, it seems pretty straightforward to me - although we use a different web server so that we can integrate with our SSO, so I haven't tried it.

You are correct! The implementation is strange, however. I'm not able to directly override any of the nginx settings already set. As there is no route overriding in nginx, this makes things real tough in trying to allow/deny access by route.

The hacky workaround is to create a more specific regex to override any existing routes. So "Location /" becomes "Location /(.*)"

Other alternatives like running your own nginx configuration or apache2 is possible, but no current documentation exists (some is available, but it is outdated and following steps results in a landslide of errors). Plus I don't like the idea of using a different configuration as far as new updates breaking my instance goes.

This is just one example as well - and one I chose because simple IP allow/deny IMO is not an enterprise feature, but a very common use case for anyone running CE.

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

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Post by nikanj »

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/

Please don't put your crown jewels i.e. your main source repo onto an RPi. I know it sounds neat, but you should probably skimp on the free avocado toasts instead.

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

#48

Post by BinaryIdiot »

Sir_Substance wrote: post #41
brianwawok wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But opps you went over your license count by 1 when creating your user, so your next renewal you will pay a penalty for that admin user.

I understand that this is a flaw, and indeed a billing-related flaw at that, and I agree it merits fixing and maybe even some refunds/discounts to make up the difference. But at the same time, you seem to be super-concerned about what is essentially a one-time overcharge of (apparently) between $4 and $48, and I feel like I would struggle to muster the emotion you seem to feel over that. If you're posting this at wor…

Not only that but I'd be willing to bet the $48 that if an email is sent regarding what happened that they would adjust the bill and all would be well.

It's a silly flaw but I don't think I'd rake them over the coals for it.

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

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Post by psankar »

I've been using gitlab for a one person company for the last six months or so. The free plan is good for me. There are private repos, CI/CD Integration (pipelines). I am not using Issues or wikis etc. I use pull requests though. I just need git hosting and a decent CI/CD pipeline system.

I don't mind paying gitlab though to avoid the hassle of hosting things myself. But the Bronze plan does not add any value for me, as there is no increase in the CI/CD minutes compared to the free plan. The silver plan is not affordable to me.

Are there any other FOSS tools that HN readers know that provides out of the box support for git hosting as well as CI/CD ? This is just a backup planning in case gitlab decide to reduce or stop the CI/CD minutes.

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

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Post by xfer »

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/

Ironically, gitea is not even hosted by gitea. They are using github..
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