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Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by jmcguire-gitlab »

jka wrote: post #133
gargasm777 wrote: post #37

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Code search, Gitlab doesn't have a code search feature. Paraphrasing The code search functionality can be achieved by adding Elasticsearch. We haven't added elasticsearch yet so cannot comment on the experience of using it.

It looks like code search is available for self-hosted GitLab instances, and also for paid groups on gitlab.com. It could be a little while before global code search is available to non-paid users, according to their search roadmap documentation[1]. [1] - https://about.gitlab.com/direction/global-search/

Our current approach is to make code search available for Bronze/starter and above. We appreciate your feedback on enabling it for non-paid. This is the Epic we are working on, feel free to leave feedback here as well. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1736

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by emilycook »

fermienrico wrote: post #40

I find Gitlab UI quite a bit bloated and slow compared to Github. They have some amazing features but I can't get past how many (2-5 seconds) to load a page and sometimes upto 10 seconds (analytics). I hope that's being addressed in future. Usually, I spend at least 2 hours on Github in a given day - and probably access the website about 50 times a day or more. These UI issues add up tremendously.

We do have a performance team who is working on continuously improving the speed, so hopefully that is improved in the future! https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by jka »

jmcguire-gitlab wrote: post #141
jka wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like code search is available for self-hosted GitLab instances, and also for paid groups on gitlab.com. It could be a little while before global code search is available to non-paid users, according to their search roadmap documentation[1]. [1] - https://about.gitlab.com/direction/global-search/

Our current approach is to make code search available for Bronze/starter and above. We appreciate your feedback on enabling it for non-paid. This is the Epic we are working on, feel free to leave feedback here as well. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1736

Thanks for the link and engaging with the community. That led me to https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/429 which sounds like a challenge.

Although not at GitLab.com scale, I've worked on a few search-related projects (often using Elasticsearch) in the past and would consider offering some ideas.

Does GitLab have a policy for attribution/licensing of technical design input from external contributors? (this is partly out of curiosity in general -- I don't know for sure whether I'd have anything to add that your team wouldn't already have thought of themselves)

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by jmcguire-gitlab »

jka wrote: post #143
jmcguire-gitlab wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our current approach is to make code search available for Bronze/starter and above. We appreciate your feedback on enabling it for non-paid. This is the Epic we are working on, feel free to leave feedback here as well. https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1736

Thanks for the link and engaging with the community. That led me to https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/429 which sounds like a challenge. Although not at GitLab.com scale, I've worked on a few search-related projects (often using Elasticsearch) in the past and would consider offering some ideas. Does GitLab have a policy for attribution/licensing of technical design input from external contributors? (this i…

We have made some solid progress on reducing the index size recently. This comment has a nice summary on the preliminary results of what we are working on. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/27918#note_353...

We always welcome the sharing of ideas and feedback. Just tag me on anything I should review. GitLab ID is @JohnMcGuire

We love external contributions. This page should help answer questions about contributing. https://about.gitlab.com/community/contribute/

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by fermienrico »

emilycook wrote: post #142
fermienrico wrote: post #40

I find Gitlab UI quite a bit bloated and slow compared to Github. They have some amazing features but I can't get past how many (2-5 seconds) to load a page and sometimes upto 10 seconds (analytics). I hope that's being addressed in future. Usually, I spend at least 2 hours on Github in a given day - and probably access the website about 50 times a day or more. These UI issues add up tremendously.

We do have a performance team who is working on continuously improving the speed, so hopefully that is improved in the future! https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/performance/

Hi Emily, can you guys do an upper limit, say maximum 1.5 seconds load time for any page? Ruthelessly disapprove features unless it meets this spec time.

When a website or service becomes too slow, it is on its way to an impending death. Then people wonder why some service fell apart? Put users and usability first and foremost before features.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by jka »

jmcguire-gitlab wrote: post #144
jka wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the link and engaging with the community. That led me to https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/429 which sounds like a challenge. Although not at GitLab.com scale, I've worked on a few search-related projects (often using Elasticsearch) in the past and would consider offering some ideas. Does GitLab have a policy for attribution/licensing of technical design input from external contributors? (this i…

We have made some solid progress on reducing the index size recently. This comment has a nice summary on the preliminary results of what we are working on. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/27918#note_353... We always welcome the sharing of ideas and feedback. Just tag me on anything I should review. GitLab ID is @JohnMcGuire We love external contributions. This page should help answer questions about con…

Great, thank you!

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by lillecarl »

jcelerier wrote: post #87
lillecarl wrote: post #57

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This fragmentation between what works on what dists makes me sad. Philosophically I've always admired BSD for the consistency, considering how there's just 3-ish of them, realistically I'm a Manjaro user as I don't have enough Linux-fu to set Arch up.

> This fragmentation between what works on what dists makes me sad. Philosophically I've always admired BSD for the consistency, what use is that consistency if even all combined together they only support a percent of the consumer hardware support that the average Linux distro has though ?

Absolutely none in practice, which is why I run Linux on my machine while hoping dearly for systemd, networkmanager and some distro agnostic package manager to succeed and make "distros" more OS less redundant.

The year of the Linux desktop will be 2021! /s

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by BlackLotus89 »

christina_hupy wrote: post #140
BlackLotus89 wrote: post #74

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The community edition is a castrated mess with ads in it. I administrate a gitlab instance for a university and gitlab is hurting me in so many ways. 1) it had a message that tells you that the elastic search is so much better and that your admin can enable it (if he would only switch to enterprise) 2) it pretends to have functionality only to have it hidden behind an "available in ee" banner 3) it has a new function…

Thanks for the feedback on the GitLab for Education program. In the spirit of iteration, we started the program as an MVC - offering free licenses for teaching and learning related purposes. The program has grown significantly since then and through meaningful feedback from our members, we’ve come to realize the structure is not ideal for Universities to implement at an enterprise level. We have an epic open to restr…

Thanks for reaching out through hn. I will take a look at the epic you linked. Those are indeed many issues we faced (and other universities as well. there was even a discussion of somehow trying to license one github instance for all universities in the state although I'm not sure if this ever amounted to anything)

I'm really interested in the development of this issue so thank you again for reaching out.

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