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2020: 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!
I guess MS will roll out something similar on Github + Azure sometime in the future.
I'm curious about what motivates you such as improving a tool that you use everyday or code quality?
Every time a GitLab's competitor is in the news we get flooded with HN submissions about GitLab. That can't be a good PR strategy.
I 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…
I keep hearing they've improved performance, and maybe they did, but that's also what I heard last time I tried it, so now I'm kind of reluctant to give it another try. Unlike before, now it doesn't just have to be "as fast", for me to switch to it, it has to be noticeably faster. Feature-wise it's easily on par already, but performance is also an important feature, and I don't think codebase being primarily in Ruby inspires a lot of confidence, especially if scale is growing. You're basically running it at 1/10-1/30th the speed it could run if a proper language were used.
Funnily enough paying their employees somewhat competitive market rate still isn’t on there.
This still puzzles me since most other remote companies of similar size and shapes offer much better compensation than Gitlab.
You aren't necessarily losing the top talent because not all the top talent cares only about the money. And by not offering the highest salaries, you are naturally selecting for employees that care more about the culture and work/life balance than having the highest possible salaries.
So if you do hiring right, you are more likely to get employees that stick around rather than jump ship for the first offer of a 10% pay raise.
I 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…
I honestly believe that whoever wrote this probably has a way of looking at it that is not "buy expensive, sell cheap, make it up on volume" but... oh well, seems to be working for the ride-sharing companies.
Why do people contribute to Gitlab and help a for profit company for free? I'm curious about what motivates you such as improving a tool that you use everyday or code quality?
So contributing helps the community whether your contribution also helps the company or not.
Seems kind of like asking "Why would you give money to the Red Cross? They have employees that get paid a salary for running it."
If it's a good cause and you benefit from it, I certainly wouldn't avoid supporting it simply because someone else might profit indirectly from my contribution.
> In CY2015 we became the most popular on-premises software development lifecycle solution [citation needed]
Every time a GitLab's competitor is in the news we get flooded with HN submissions about GitLab. That can't be a good PR strategy.