GitLab Direction
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GitLab Direction
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Re: GitLab Direction
#2GitLab is like the average kid in class that everybody makes fun of for constantly asking questions, but the joke's on them because "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." While GitLab may have warts, I feel that they're very earnestly working to make the product better, bit by bit, day by day, and will one day surpass GitHub.
Re: GitLab Direction
#3GitLab should, frankly, focus on performance/ux/bug-fix releases every other release. And probably for the next 2-3 releases to get some of the warts under control.
This constant push for project management features, frankly, is at the expense of the core product. I'd rather use a combination of GitHub and JIRA over Gitlab.
Re: GitLab Direction
#4GitLab should, frankly, focus on performance/ux/bug-fix releases every other release. And probably for the next 2-3 releases to get some of the warts under control. This constant push for project management features, frankly, is at the expense of the core product. I'd rather use a combination of GitHub and JIRA over Gitlab.
What is the nr. 1 performance/ux/bugfix you would like to see?
BTW This month we shipped 35 performance improvements https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=... and there were 141 bugs closed in the release of this month https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8...
Re: GitLab Direction
#5GitLab is like the average kid in class that everybody makes fun of for constantly asking questions, but the joke's on them because "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." While GitLab may have warts, I feel that they're very earnestly working to make the product better, bit by bit, day by day, and will one day surpass GitHub.
Thanks! Incremental progress in the form of iteration is one of our core values https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration
Re: GitLab Direction
#6GitLab should, frankly, focus on performance/ux/bug-fix releases every other release. And probably for the next 2-3 releases to get some of the warts under control. This constant push for project management features, frankly, is at the expense of the core product. I'd rather use a combination of GitHub and JIRA over Gitlab.
What is the nr. 1 performance/ux/bugfix you would like to see? BTW This month we shipped 35 performance improvements https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=... and there were 141 bugs closed in the release of this month https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8...
I have a feeling that many people who constantly ask for "fixes" are the kind of people who want to "fix them all", by rewriting without understanding that it is a never ending cycle.
Don't pay attention to them. Just do your thing.
Gitlab has provided the much needed competition with real impact (consider Github boards, for example) and you have a company that can pay many people a living. That is more than good enough.
Re: GitLab Direction
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the nr. 1 performance/ux/bugfix you would like to see? BTW This month we shipped 35 performance improvements https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=... and there were 141 bugs closed in the release of this month https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8...
I have a feeling that many people who constantly ask for "fixes" are the kind of people who want to "fix them all", by rewriting without understanding that it is a never ending cycle. Don't pay attention to them. Just do your thing. Gitlab has provided the much needed competition with real impact (consider Github boards, for example) and you have a company that can pay many people a living. That is more than good eno…
Thank you very much for the encouragement, I appreciate it after significant commenting today while flying from Mexico to San Francisco. You can rest assured we'll keep working on our vision https://about.gitlab.com/direction/product-vision/
The people that ask for fixes care about GitLab and are worth listening to. There is an almost infinite demand for new features and we can't make them all (even with more then 2000 open source contributors). But I've found that Hacker News readers have great insights and we'll keep listening and adjusting were we missed the mark.
GitLab as a company was born on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278 and although the tone these days feels like different I hope it is a bond for live.
Re: GitLab Direction
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a feeling that many people who constantly ask for "fixes" are the kind of people who want to "fix them all", by rewriting without understanding that it is a never ending cycle. Don't pay attention to them. Just do your thing. Gitlab has provided the much needed competition with real impact (consider Github boards, for example) and you have a company that can pay many people a living. That is more than good eno…
Thank you very much for the encouragement, I appreciate it after significant commenting today while flying from Mexico to San Francisco. You can rest assured we'll keep working on our vision https://about.gitlab.com/direction/product-vision/ The people that ask for fixes care about GitLab and are worth listening to. There is an almost infinite demand for new features and we can't make them all (even with more then 20…
I just wanted to add that I have been absolutely loving gitlab. Signed up in 2014 and use it pretty much daily.
One of the biggest problems I had was the speed of the web ui but since the great github migration the speed increased massively and has stayed snappy.
Contributing code to GitLab has also been my favorite experience with open source as not only were my changes looked at, Gitlab developers actually helped me get things working and write better code.
Re: GitLab Direction
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you very much for the encouragement, I appreciate it after significant commenting today while flying from Mexico to San Francisco. You can rest assured we'll keep working on our vision https://about.gitlab.com/direction/product-vision/ The people that ask for fixes care about GitLab and are worth listening to. There is an almost infinite demand for new features and we can't make them all (even with more then 20…
I just wanted to add that I have been absolutely loving gitlab. Signed up in 2014 and use it pretty much daily. One of the biggest problems I had was the speed of the web ui but since the great github migration the speed increased massively and has stayed snappy. Contributing code to GitLab has also been my favorite experience with open source as not only were my changes looked at, Gitlab developers actually helped m…
Thanks so much for commenting, awesome to hear you're loving GitLab.
We made a lot of performance improvements, I'm glad you're benefitting from them. On https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/#p... you can see what we're measuring. The monitoring of our biggest merge request https://dashboards.gitlab.net/d/1EBTz3Dmz/sitespeed-page-sum... shows of our fixes regressed and we're looking into what is going wrong. Screenshot for people reading this in the future: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nlriugkzknu2tl9/Screenshot%202018-...
There is a lot more work to do and we'll keep shipping performance improvements in code and to our infrastructure. The tentative date for our migration to GCP is next weekend.
I'm so glad to hear that contributing code to GitLab was a favorite experience! Kudos to our merge request coaches who try to get every merge request over the finish line with a high quality.
Re: GitLab Direction
#10GitLab should, frankly, focus on performance/ux/bug-fix releases every other release. And probably for the next 2-3 releases to get some of the warts under control. This constant push for project management features, frankly, is at the expense of the core product. I'd rather use a combination of GitHub and JIRA over Gitlab.
What is the nr. 1 performance/ux/bugfix you would like to see? BTW This month we shipped 35 performance improvements https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?scope=... and there were 141 bugs closed in the release of this month https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues?scope=all&utf8...
A pretty glaring example is this one (LDAP password stored in plaintext): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38066
We purchased a gitlab subscription but cannot obtain infosec approval (and thus cannot use it) due to this issue.