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Just curious, which one of their competitors is in the news?
Github released a new package registry yesterday.
Got it, thanks.
GitLab Strategy
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#122020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while retaining our independence. We are developers at heart and this is why we want to give developers the source control tools they deserve!
2022: Google is shutting down GitLab.
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#13> In CY2015 we became the most popular on-premises software development lifecycle solution
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#14I imagine that the on-prem and public versions are completely different beasts to operate.
It's quite the engineering feat that they reached the current scale with the same codebase! I believe maintaining one shared codebase will be expensive in the long run: locally you want simplicity, SaaS you want scalability, micro-services and all that.
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#152020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while retaining our independence. We are developers at heart and this is why we want to give developers the source control tools they deserve!
Under Principles : Independence: since we took financing we need to have a liquidity event; to maintain independence we want to become a public company rather than be acquired. At any rate, even if it happens, GitLab CE is open source, which can't be said for some of their competition.
The question is, is that their call to make? Does Goldman Sachs share the same opinion?
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#162020: It has been an amazing ride but all journeys come to an end. Joining the Google family will allow us to offer our customers much better experience while retaining our independence. We are developers at heart and this is why we want to give developers the source control tools they deserve!
Which means Gitlab would likely cease to exist as a standalone product but rather be integrated into GCP or the like (similar to Gemnasium and Gitorious after Gitlab acquired them)
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Under Principles : Independence: since we took financing we need to have a liquidity event; to maintain independence we want to become a public company rather than be acquired. At any rate, even if it happens, GitLab CE is open source, which can't be said for some of their competition.
The question is, is that their call to make? Does Goldman Sachs share the same opinion?
From what I can tell 5 out of 7 board seats are owned by VCs and it's very unlikely the founders retain majority shares given their 5 rounds of funding. So I doubt it's their call to make in any way.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
The question is, is that their call to make? Does Goldman Sachs share the same opinion?
From what I can tell 5 out of 7 board seats are owned by VCs and it's very unlikely the founders retain majority shares given their 5 rounds of funding. So I doubt it's their call to make in any way.
I can promise you they are already in talks with at least one large company. You know those phones started ringing when Microsoft bought Github. I'm not ready to believe that Goldman Sachs is now a principles over profit kind of company.
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#19I feel bad for GitLab.
It's better than GitHub in almost every way. And yet GitHub is more popular both in open-source and enterprise. And in enterprise we are usually left with unholy combination of GitHub and JIRA because GitHub project management is a joke and they haven't done anything useful in that space for years.
But for some reason pushing for anything other than GitHub is always an uphill battle. And the web interface GitHub offers isn't any good either; I can't use it without OctoTree (amazing stuff BTW, works with GH and GL! Kudos!). So what does GitHub really offer that makes it so popular? A friendly name? A cute OctoCat?
And GL leads the way and GH copies their features some years down the line and GL fights and GH is still more successful.
I think this is sad.
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#20I feel bad for GitLab. It's better than GitHub in almost every way. And yet GitHub is more popular both in open-source and enterprise. And in enterprise we are usually left with unholy combination of GitHub and JIRA because GitHub project management is a joke and they haven't done anything useful in that space for years. But for some reason pushing for anything other than GitHub is always an uphill battle. And the we…
A lot of the development ecosystem had integrations with Github, and haven't yet done so with Gitlab. Additionally, network effects matter, especially when if you add collaborators to your repo it's almost a given that they have a Github account.