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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 emilycook »

alipang wrote: post #228
umvi wrote: post #63

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> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

My company is currently considering switching away from GitLab CI/CD as well as we've found no way to increase the number of available minutes (2000 on our tier I believe, doesn't last very long) without upgrading many tiers before we can even scale it at all. Can I ask what plan you're on? I'm assuming since your company wants to pinch pennies you're also fairly small?

Hello! GitLab employee, could you elaborate? You should be able to purchase additional minutes without upgrading what tier you're on: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/37081#note_...

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

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Post by lkozloff »

alipang wrote: post #228
umvi wrote: post #63

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> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

My company is currently considering switching away from GitLab CI/CD as well as we've found no way to increase the number of available minutes (2000 on our tier I believe, doesn't last very long) without upgrading many tiers before we can even scale it at all. Can I ask what plan you're on? I'm assuming since your company wants to pinch pennies you're also fairly small?

Hi @alipang - Back in April we released the ability to purchase additional minutes for CI runners without upgrading to a more expensive tier.

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/22/gitlab-11-10-released/#p...

You can purchase directly from the customers portal at https://customers.gitlab.com and apply them to your group.

Hope that helps!

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

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Post by umvi »

alipang wrote: post #228
umvi wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

My company is currently considering switching away from GitLab CI/CD as well as we've found no way to increase the number of available minutes (2000 on our tier I believe, doesn't last very long) without upgrading many tiers before we can even scale it at all. Can I ask what plan you're on? I'm assuming since your company wants to pinch pennies you're also fairly small?

> Can I ask what plan you're on? I'm assuming since your company wants to pinch pennies you're also fairly small?

We are small compared to FAANG, but not "small" small (~4000 employees total).

We run our own self-hosted GitLab EE instance, so we have "infinite" CI minutes in that the runners are on all our own hardware. So CI is "free" (but we pay for and maintain our own hardware/VMs so I'm not sure how much that costs).

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

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Post by emilycook »

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

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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.

Ah sorry to hear that was your take-away, I'm not on support it's just my job to triage feedback [1]. We do have a Slack channel for support managers where I passed along your experience though, so hopefully we can improve!

[1] (in case you care at all about my job description lol) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...

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

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Post by lucideer »

_coveredInBees wrote: post #197
lucideer wrote: post #105

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Search friendliness. Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of "marketing site" for developers. Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.

A related note is that Github repos have much better SEO than gitlab repos. It is probably a combination of Github being weighted more heavily by search algorithms, but also because Github has a far better network effect. I've tried searching for a repo that is hosted on Gitlab, that is an extremely well written Pytorch library with hosted HTML documentation, etc, and it wouldn't even show up on the first page of Goo…

It's worth mentioning that Gitlab does facilitate mirroring to Github in quite an easily configurable, pretty zero-maintenance way.

This of course won't benefit Gitlab's SEO in the long run, but it does allow using Gitlab with less of the cons.

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Post by emilycook »

prepend wrote: post #173
dsumenkovic wrote: post #156

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I am sorry if it sounds like that, as my intention was just to provide some more data while waiting for the real case feedback. Hopefully, some users will provide their personal experiences.

Still sounds like chatbot :) I appreciate you’re trying to be helpful but don’t really have any useful info.

Hi! I'm on Djorde's team, just in case anyone stumbles across this and thinks you're literally talking to a bot (not saying you are OP, just preventative), he is a non-native English speaker but definitely a real person. You're talking to this guy :) https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/#sumenkovic

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

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Post by Already__Taken »

frenchyatwork wrote: post #181
lucideer wrote: post #92

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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.

I want to say this is about 6/mo new guessing from when I wanted it to when I realised it had been added.

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

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Post by dorsatum »

jakeogh wrote: post #224
mstade wrote: post #143

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That's interesting, my experience with GH support is the polar opposite – they've been stellar. Particularly their enterprise support went above and beyond when we had issues and never did I feel I got either a canned response or even had to wait particularly long to receive an answer. At one point we had an issue with a flaky load balancer sometimes dropping connections, but the folks maintaining the load balancer w…

I sent them a msg about 2FA recently and got a real reply that didnt sidestep the question/problem.

same, issues with 2FA and not considered at all

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

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Post by notyourday »

zeeZ wrote: post #194
notyourday wrote: post #185

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Github Enterprise.

The pricing for GitHub Enterprise is "Contact Sales", which as a smallish yet privacy focused company we don't even bother with anymore. That uncertainty plus the keyword "Enterprise" have always amounted to "ridiculously expensive".

That I agree certainly agree with. However, the other approach is the one that certainly should put a damper onto the valuation.

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

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Post by zymhan »

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…

> This time we are likely not going to renew and be switching to CE version after our current license expires.

I can strongly recommend against doing that, GitLab almost seems to punish you if you rely on CE, just to force you to pay.

It was honestly the bane of deployments.

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