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Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by frenchyatwork » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #92

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #68

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I haven't tried Gitlab sites yet - what makes it better than Github's?

Note: I haven't yet looked into Github Actions in depth, so if there's GH Pages integration there, some of the below may no longer be true. Github's is tightly coupled to Jekyll, and—more specifically—to this single Gem https://github.com/github/pages-gem Also, this might have changed, but last time I interacted with it, it lacked any real control over your source repo structure: there's some arcane rules about eithe…

> automatic LetsEncrypt renewal for custom domains

Really, is this new? I wasn't aware of it.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by dvlsg » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

danpalmer wrote: post #80

tbrock wrote: post #72

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In my experience CircleCI is an excellent alternative.

In my experience CircleCI feels like an excellent alternative for the first few weeks/month, until you realise all the missing features, unreliability, and issues, at which point you contact support and find their support is very poor and mostly just ask you to go and "vote" for which bugfixes you want to see on their community site, where product ideas go to die.

Which features were missing for you with CircleCI? My experience with CircleCI has been almost entirely positive so far.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by deskamess » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #171

Is Sytse on vacation? It's the first time I don't see a response from him :p

Possibly SEC rules and/or advice from lawyers to only say anything when needed - they are at or getting to a critical point in the journey. The PR/support staff can run the comments for now.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by stormtv » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

kardos wrote: post #175

Ajedi32 wrote: post #142

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It's the network effect. GitHub was first-to-market. Almost all open source contributors have a GitHub account these days. Many older projects started there long before GitLab was a viable competitor. Now assume you're starting a new open source project. Most of the other open source projects you've seen are hosted on GitHub. Most of the other developers you interact with have GitHub accounts. GitLab has all the same…

I disagree that signing up for an account at gitlab.com is a barrier. Anyone willing and capable to make contributions won't be stymied by that step. There's even a "Sign in with GitHub" button..!

I think the biggest thing is the context switching between different projects. I have open source projects that I wouldn't be able to move to GitLab as I would have to coordinate the move with all the other collaborators and make sure the users of the repository are aware that the new code will be in GitLab.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by notyourday » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:24 PM UTC

taftster wrote: post #168

petercooper wrote: post #82

Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects? I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos. Lest you think it's just…

On-premise hosting. This is so important to organizations that can't use internet hosted services, for all sorts of various reasons.

Github Enterprise.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by NewbyCoderrr » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:26 PM UTC

I would die for Gitlab. Such a great tool.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by johnsea » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC

ryanmcbride wrote: post #157

At my last job Gitlab was in the stack and I had never used it before so I was expecting it to be a real pain. It was actually a perfectly pleasant experience. I don't think it'll make me leave Github but I put them at the same level now. Merge Requests never felt right saying over Pull Requests, even though it's more descriptive of what's actually happening.

As I understand they won't give up 'Merge Request'. But couldn't they at least make it configurable? 'Pull Request' was first and, as I suppose, is the preferred terminology by many.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by notyourday » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC

dpflan wrote: post #6

I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?

> I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?

FOMO from the VCs. It will implode.

The only company that could potentially be the one to pay the money already bought the valedictorian of the class.

The ones that are left are Google, Apple and Amazon. Google does not buy those kind of companies. Apple is not in that business and Amazon is... well... Amazon.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by oh_boy » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:27 PM UTC

pm90 wrote: post #37

Kudos to the team. While my current workspace is tied to GitHub, I will most certainly switch to Gitlab given the option to. Why? Only one reason: GitHub support is fucking horrible. It’s insanely bad, even for paying enterprise customers. Open a support ticket, you will get some superficial pointers to documentation, and then be completely ignored. Their Product team is the absolute worst too. There are so many thin…

Not sure what exact experience you made with the GitLab support but I can tell you our experience is different. It took over two months to resolve a license request we made to their support (or sales team) with multiple pushes from our side, every week. There are bugs with the CI system like an issue with the cache retrieval when multiple jobs run in different pipelines parallel to each other, that is actually blocking us from using the cache to it's meant extend and that was issued in 2016. You will find a dozens of those tickets.

Just some examples. Wouldn't say GitLab is the heaven on earth GitHub isn't. It just has it's own, different issues.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by notyourday » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 5:28 PM UTC

dpflan wrote: post #47

s_dev wrote: post #34

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Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.

> Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub?

MSFT integrated sales channel. LinkedIn data + Github data is pretty much everyone who buys any "IT"/"software" services.