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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 ensignavenger »

bamboozled wrote: post #215
ubercore wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are actually quite a few complaints on here about GitHub support, the difference is that Gitlab employees are replying to the complaints against their company. Seems like a lot of Gitlab employees follow Hacker News and want to help out.

(It appears that Gitlab actually pays some of them to do this as part of their job, whereas for others it is not in their job description).

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

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Post by gmiller123456 »

Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?"

I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.

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Post by [deleted] »

en-us wrote: post #125
aeonflux wrote: post #45

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I can totally relate to that. In flood of notifications I missed information about expiring CC. Instead of somehow soft-locking the account they just downgraded it and all my integrations, hooks and god knows what just blowed. I managed to fix the CC in 5 minutes, but many months after I am still recovering from that disaster. Support replied that they did send warning so I should just FO.

IMO at that point since you have to rebuild everything anyway, just rebuild it with a different vendor. No reason to stay with a company that treats you like that.

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

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Post by spike021 »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #243

Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?" I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.

Just an assumption, but maybe the time each stage/step takes? Maybe there are improvements that can be made to Gitlab to speed them up, or something to that affect. (I don't know the specifics so this is completely a guess)

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Post by _ikke_ »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #243

Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?" I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.

The runner is the piece of software that executes pipelines. You can install it on any machine and connect that to a gitlab instance. On hosted gitlab, they provide the runners, but limit how long you can these runners execute, which they measure in minutes.

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Post by HeavyStorm »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #243

Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?" I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.

Entirely optional. You can just use it for code, connect your own CI/CD or use theirs.

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

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Post by aspaceman »

emilycook wrote: post #236
prepend wrote: post #173

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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

I think the point they were making (in a mean way) is that it sounded like robotic PR speak, the thing any PR person would say. The support page doesn't say much about the quality of support, so the message was received poorly.

Sometimes the very friendly PR tone is considered out of place and obviously forced. Especially on a developer forum.

[PR for devs must be so much "fun" - you have my sympathies]

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

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Post by HeavyStorm »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #243

Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?" I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.

But I am curious... Why wouldn't you want to use a CI?

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Post by edaemon »

hobofan wrote: post #58
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…

> instead of stealing TravisCIs ideas (cough GitHub Actions Cough) Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Even _if_ that were true, that would probably be a good thing now that TravisCI is on life support.

That sentence seemed particularly strange considering GitHub Actions is pretty openly based on Azure DevOps, which makes sense considering GitHub's owner. Actions bears little resemblance to Travis.
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