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Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by dsumenkovic »

bbeausej wrote: post #12

I really like the update pace of Gitlab. Our teams are all based on an on-prem EE (low tier) and it's been a pleasure to receive a steady stream of valuable updates. Passing on all the good things that Gitlab does for us already; I _really_ wish gitlab would push to make more of the Project Management features accessible to the lower tiers (maybe even CE). Epics and Roadmaps linked to Gitlab's SCM and DevOps features…

GitLab Community Advocate here. Thank you very much for the feedback. I understand your desire to move some features to the lower tiers and that's a good sign for us that we are on the right path with our offerings. From time to time it happens that we move some features to the lower tiers or even core/free tier.

I wanted to share few more words on how we are trying to be the good stewards, you can find more about our stewardship rules and promises here https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/#what-features-...

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by sytse »

bbeausej wrote: post #12

I really like the update pace of Gitlab. Our teams are all based on an on-prem EE (low tier) and it's been a pleasure to receive a steady stream of valuable updates. Passing on all the good things that Gitlab does for us already; I _really_ wish gitlab would push to make more of the Project Management features accessible to the lower tiers (maybe even CE). Epics and Roadmaps linked to Gitlab's SCM and DevOps features…

Thanks for your comment. Glad to hear you like the update pace. Regarding epics we're considering moving them to a more affordable plan while keeping the roadmap in Ultimate. But we're not close to a decision.

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by sytse »

chmln wrote: post #11
Suri_GitLab wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello! Since GitLab is a single application that covers the entire software development lifecycle, we're a bit "bigger" than Gogs, which only tackles SCM. We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources, including forming a team to specialize in this area, and we're really grateful for your feedback. :)

> We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources I used to use gitlab at work daily and releases would mention how performance is being tackled consistently. However, I have not seen any large improvements at all, suggesting that there is an impenetrable wall made of the underlying technologies. Gitlab is based primarily on Ruby-on-Rails, which doesn't particularly shine with neither memory usage nor performance. W…

A big thing we're looking at to reduce memory is making the ruby code multi-threaded. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3592

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by sytse »

Overview of the three main improvements in this release:

1. JavaScript coverage in SAST

GitLab Static Application Security Testing (SAST) scans source code and helps to detect potential security vulnerabilities early in the pipeline. In 11.8, we've added SAST support for JavaScript, building on top of our existing node.js support. Now any JavaScript file can be scanned, like static scripts and HTML. A vital practice in DevSecOps is to scan code changes with each commit, and with this change, we're covering one of the most popular web languages, helping you to find JavaScript risks as early as possible.

2. GitLab Pages for subgroups and templates

GitLab Pages got a whole lot better this release, with two key improvements. First, we have introduced GitLab Pages support for projects in subgroups, enabling these projects to easily publish content to the web. GitLab 11.8 also bundles our most popular templates for Pages, so users can get started with just a single click.

3. Error Tracking with Sentry

Application errors provide important insight into the health of your application, and can help detect problems without waiting for users to report them. GitLab 11.8 can now display the most recent errors directly within the project, making them easier and quicker to find and take action on.

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by lucideer »

StyloBill wrote: post #3
Jnr wrote: post #2

Gitlab is great and I have used it for years but I recently switched to Gogs for self hosted repositories because it is much faster, easier to set up and walk in a park to maintain. It doesn't have all the features (bloat) that Gitlab has but it can probably satisfy >95% of git users.

Yes but Gogs is self-hosted whereas Gitlab offers hosting solutions.

I'm somewhat dumbfounded at the no-less-than-three sibling commenters here all chiming in with the same repeated misinterpretation of your post.

I suspect those downvoting you didn't take time to read your comment properly either.

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by hitekker »

orware wrote: post #15

Congrats on the new release! Since GitLab for Education was announced I've been trying to get our college signed up for it, but it's been difficult so I was hoping I might be able to share some GitLab for Education Requests: Working in a community college it's been really tricky to get the agreement signed for us to take advantage of this at all (that's more of an issue with the way we work in particular, but I just…

This comment is high quality customer feedback; it deserves a thoughtful consideration and response from Gitlab.

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by bbeausej »

sytse wrote: post #22
bbeausej wrote: post #12

I really like the update pace of Gitlab. Our teams are all based on an on-prem EE (low tier) and it's been a pleasure to receive a steady stream of valuable updates. Passing on all the good things that Gitlab does for us already; I _really_ wish gitlab would push to make more of the Project Management features accessible to the lower tiers (maybe even CE). Epics and Roadmaps linked to Gitlab's SCM and DevOps features…

Thanks for your comment. Glad to hear you like the update pace. Regarding epics we're considering moving them to a more affordable plan while keeping the roadmap in Ultimate. But we're not close to a decision.

Thanks for the update! I really think there's a huge opportunity of growth there that goes beyond SCM/DevOps for medium sized teams.

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by Suri_GitLab »

letientai299 wrote: post #10
Suri_GitLab wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello! Since GitLab is a single application that covers the entire software development lifecycle, we're a bit "bigger" than Gogs, which only tackles SCM. We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources, including forming a team to specialize in this area, and we're really grateful for your feedback. :)

May I know what is the requirements for who would join that team?

Hi! We just opened up hiring for an Engineering Manager and Senior Product Manager - I'd love it if you applied and we became teammates! :)

Engineering Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4201458002

Senior Product Manager: https://boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/4192657002

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by dashundchen »

chmln wrote: post #11
Suri_GitLab wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hello! Since GitLab is a single application that covers the entire software development lifecycle, we're a bit "bigger" than Gogs, which only tackles SCM. We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources, including forming a team to specialize in this area, and we're really grateful for your feedback. :)

> We have a plan to make GitLab use less resources I used to use gitlab at work daily and releases would mention how performance is being tackled consistently. However, I have not seen any large improvements at all, suggesting that there is an impenetrable wall made of the underlying technologies. Gitlab is based primarily on Ruby-on-Rails, which doesn't particularly shine with neither memory usage nor performance. W…

I do think they have made improvments to performance. Project search and loading the issues page used to timeout all the time on Gitlab.com, especially for the gitlab repo itself. Now it works much better, loads and searches at an acceptable speed with no timeouts.

I will say I've never had a problem with performance on self hosted Gitlab because of the smaller scale.

Re: Gitlab 11.8 Released

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Post by btasovac »

orware wrote: post #15

Congrats on the new release! Since GitLab for Education was announced I've been trying to get our college signed up for it, but it's been difficult so I was hoping I might be able to share some GitLab for Education Requests: Working in a community college it's been really tricky to get the agreement signed for us to take advantage of this at all (that's more of an issue with the way we work in particular, but I just…

Thank you for the detailed feedback! We love to hear that we're doing something well, but also like to discuss if there is something that can be improved.

> It would be nice if we could sign up for the licenses completely online without needing to wait and get an agreement signed

That sounds reasonable, and it doesn't seem to be an issue only with your institution. We already have an issue for automating the application process for the educational license. [1] The proposed solution would resolve all concerns described here.

> I originally though the Education licensing would cover usage for our IT Department staff as well

The primary goal of this program is to help students catch up with the latest technology in software development as early as possible, and we think that we managed to do this with the current setup. However, we would love to discuss other options regarding this program's limitations. Please open an issue [2] - we would love to hear your suggestions.

> Is there any work towards building/including some sort of Confluence alternative

Can you please tell us more about what part of Confluence do you think is missing in GitLab? You can use this page as a reference - there are all stages of development that are covered by GitLab. [3]

Thank you again on your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/...

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/...

[3] - https://about.gitlab.com/product/

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