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What a strange post. Considering the timing, it seems like it must have been posted in response to GitHub's announcement of new CI/CD functionality (also on the HN front page): https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-c... But if so, it's quite a backhanded response – the post itself only mentions GitHub in passing.
Every time github releases a feature this is the response. These posts are so pathetic. I’m surprised that they continue to play this angle. It’s a very polarizing way to address the community that will definitely continue to stir up us vs them mentality between GitHub and Gitlab users.
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The arguments for gitlab are that they are open source and that self-hosting isn't an afterthought. We need more of both.
Unless you want their enterprise features. Gitlab is open core.
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Everything I hear about them screams immaturity, from deleting their prod db to smack talking competitors.
Not to heap it on...but ok who am I kidding I am heaping it on: I had a terrible interview experience with them. Basically there was a period on HN where every other post was about stupid hiring practices and how absurd some code interviews were. Well Gitlab embodied all of them. They phone interview quizzed me on several "gotcha" questions, and finally I was asked to describe Prototypical inheritance (JS), in which…
What a strange post. GitLab is under siege from GitHub. The argument for GitLab has always been that they are more feature-rich, the argument for GitHub has been that their uptime is >80% and their UX is excellent. If GitHub achieves feature parity, GitLab is dead.
We use Gitlab for work because the self-hosted version is free. For small companies Github is a pretty steep unnecessary expense, and we appreciate control over our own servers. Unless Github makes a self-hosted version there isn't really a comparison for us. To me Github is about the community. Lots of open source software and forks of that software, you can put your profile on your resume. Gitlab has more features…
- maintaining and updating your servers
- updating the free software
- backups
- recovering from backups in situations where your servers fail?
I don't think you get that for free? If you consider those costs, the price tag for a hosted solutions becomes more and more reasonable.
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GitHub does offer self-hostable enterprise edition, but its price is not publicly available.
Then it's going to lose against the free gitlab, and the pricing page ( https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ ) that doesn't even have a "contact us for a price" option.
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The arguments for gitlab are that they are open source and that self-hosting isn't an afterthought. We need more of both.
Unless you want their enterprise features. Gitlab is open core.
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We use Gitlab for work because the self-hosted version is free. For small companies Github is a pretty steep unnecessary expense, and we appreciate control over our own servers. Unless Github makes a self-hosted version there isn't really a comparison for us. To me Github is about the community. Lots of open source software and forks of that software, you can put your profile on your resume. Gitlab has more features…
I know the "free" price tag seems nice at first. How did you calculate in the cost for: - maintaining and updating your servers - updating the free software - backups - recovering from backups in situations where your servers fail? I don't think you get that for free? If you consider those costs, the price tag for a hosted solutions becomes more and more reasonable.
So far, price was next to nothing relative to mass of functionalities given in free version.
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Everything I hear about them screams immaturity, from deleting their prod db to smack talking competitors.
Not to heap it on...but ok who am I kidding I am heaping it on: I had a terrible interview experience with them. Basically there was a period on HN where every other post was about stupid hiring practices and how absurd some code interviews were. Well Gitlab embodied all of them. They phone interview quizzed me on several "gotcha" questions, and finally I was asked to describe Prototypical inheritance (JS), in which…
I am Liam a Recruiting Lead for Gitlab. I would be very keen to set up a time to talk through your interview experience.