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

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

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Post by toupeira »

btasovac wrote: post #145
toupeira wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are some high-profile FOSS projects using GitLab, but they're not as visible as they would be on GitHub because they host their own instances: - https://gitlab.gnome.org/ - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ - https://salsa.debian.org/ (AFAIK this is an ongoing migration) Others are considering a migration: - KDE: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/24900 - GNU Emacs: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/i…

The Debian migration is actually finished.

Awesome, as a long-time Debian user myself that makes me very happy :)

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

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Post by jtwaleson »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #209

Related question. Is it possible to use Gitlab CI with a runner running on your own hardware to get unlimited CI time? I'd like to take a machine at my home and use it to run automated tests/etc, especially because some of the integration tests can be quite long (ie, chewing up CI minutes) . I thought this was possible, but after searching I was often confused. I imagine I'm using poor terms during my search. Thought…

Yes, have been doing this for a year in autoscaling configuration on gitlab.com

Edit: see https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/docker_machine.html

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Post by tortasaur »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #209

Related question. Is it possible to use Gitlab CI with a runner running on your own hardware to get unlimited CI time? I'd like to take a machine at my home and use it to run automated tests/etc, especially because some of the integration tests can be quite long (ie, chewing up CI minutes) . I thought this was possible, but after searching I was often confused. I imagine I'm using poor terms during my search. Thought…

I'm not sure about gitlab.com, but you could always run a self-hosted instance.

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Post by gabeweaver »

rossmohax wrote: post #202
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…

We are Gitlab customers since 2017 and I can tell you that your expectations for what support can do for you are very unrealistic. Per their own policy all they do is finding relevant tickets and send you there, from there on you are not their problem anymore. You as customers is also not a developer/product manager problem either, they do their planning and priotization using their own ideas and unless ticket is in…

Hi. GitLab PM here. I'm really sorry that this is your experience. Can you point me to this policy? I would like to propose a change to it given that's not reflective of how most teams do planning and prioritization.

We care very much about support issues, regularly prioritize a large portion of each release to addressing them, and can not do it effectively without ongoing involvement and feedback from the wider community.

I will say that it is sometimes hard to separate the signal from the noise, given my team currently has 3k+ open issues. Please ping me (@gweaver) on issues that are relevant to you and I'll do my best to provide a status update / more information or bring in the relevant PM who can.

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Post by bamboozled »

ubercore wrote: post #204
emilycook wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! GitLab employee, if you wanna reach out to me directly, I can try to triage to the right team: ecook@gitlab.com

It's awesome that you're willing to help out, but increasingly these kind of interactions leave me with a bad impression -- I don't want to have to complain in a public forum to get some kind of meaningful response. Not calling you out on this personally, just noting a general trend that's become really common the last few years.

I feel the same when I see Gitlab posts on HN, always seems to be a lot of apologetic behaviour after the fact, it’s a bit cringe worthy.

I don’t see it from competitors nor do I see the long string of terrible complaints, handle your business in advance this doesn’t have to happen.

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Post by dkns »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #209

Related question. Is it possible to use Gitlab CI with a runner running on your own hardware to get unlimited CI time? I'd like to take a machine at my home and use it to run automated tests/etc, especially because some of the integration tests can be quite long (ie, chewing up CI minutes) . I thought this was possible, but after searching I was often confused. I imagine I'm using poor terms during my search. Thought…

It absolutely is. That's what we do at company I work for. We use free gitlab mintues and when it runs out we use runner running on one of our own local machines.

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Post by n42 »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #209

Related question. Is it possible to use Gitlab CI with a runner running on your own hardware to get unlimited CI time? I'd like to take a machine at my home and use it to run automated tests/etc, especially because some of the integration tests can be quite long (ie, chewing up CI minutes) . I thought this was possible, but after searching I was often confused. I imagine I'm using poor terms during my search. Thought…

You can also do this with Buildkite without having to drag along the rest of the cruft that is GitLab. It’s free for individuals, if I recall.

Buildkite is an excellent CI tool.

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Post by Arathorn »

dijit wrote: post #71

While my org uses perforce extensively; we also have a gitlab premium license (with far too many seats than we have users due to a fuck-up deploying mattermost org wide then promptly disbanding the effort after the damage was done) which we use enjoyably. Despite the fact the people who host our gitlab internal do not update it often or support it well I do think it’s a great product at the enterprise level. So much…

what happened with the MM deploy ooi?

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Post by boleary-gl »

asdkhadsj wrote: post #209

Related question. Is it possible to use Gitlab CI with a runner running on your own hardware to get unlimited CI time? I'd like to take a machine at my home and use it to run automated tests/etc, especially because some of the integration tests can be quite long (ie, chewing up CI minutes) . I thought this was possible, but after searching I was often confused. I imagine I'm using poor terms during my search. Thought…

GitLab employee here.

Yes - if you bring your own runner to GitLab.com you can run unlimited build minutes on it - the build minutes we count are only those on our shared compute (2000 minutes for free, etc.).

The other huge benefit is that you can put that runner behind your firewall without poking any holes - itbjust needs access to GitLab.com and it can run your builds.

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