Meanwhile Sourcehut is still twenty quid a year...
Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
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#12Having never used Gitlab, is there any advantage over Github?
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#13Having never used Gitlab, is there any advantage over Github?
You can self-host GitLab which may be an advantage for some. If you like the colour purple, there's that too!
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#14Having never used Gitlab, is there any advantage over Github?
You can self-host GitLab which may be an advantage for some. If you like the colour purple, there's that too!
You can self-host GitHub as well if I remember if you pay for the licenses. Gitlab does have an open source free version but without all the features.
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#15Currently a starter tier user with more than 25 users, and I don't know how I feel.
We had been mulling an upgrade to premium, but the price jump is a tough sell for us. This kind of leaves us in an predicament. Will have to see what GitLab can offer us as per their blog post.
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#16> Existing customers with up to 25 users can renew for one more year at the existing $4.00 rate, or get a free upgrade to Premium along with a staggered discount at the next renewal: $6.00 on year 1, $9.00 year 2 and $15.00 for year 3. This seems reasonable...
The people most annoyed in the last thread were the ones who evangelized GitLab within their companies but hadn't yet convinced the company to pull the plug or transition to a paid plan. They now have egg on their faces as GitLab is no longer a viable option due to pricing.
I worked at a company that only used Gitlab's free tier for production deployments.
But instead of actually paying for their service to resolve various limitations we ran into, my manager decided he "had a bad experience with Gitlab" and so we switched providers.
I honestly don't know what people are thinking using a free tier for some service provider to run their company.
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#19Compare/contrast to my former email provider. They gave 1 month notice to some people before almost doubling prices, and others apparently didn’t get any notice at all. Left them for a more expensive service— large and sudden price increases send a message of instability and bait and switch dynamics whether or not it’s actually the case. Gitlab, on the other hand is using a phase in approach. It gives customers time to adjust and prepare. Whereas they could have just hiked prices and exploited customers who didn’t have time to react. Of course you get pricing wrong sometimes (I guess even by 2-5x). But really you have to be careful with how you raise prices. Personally I’d rather have happy customers, although captive ones pay the same.
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#20Having never used Gitlab, is there any advantage over Github?
Been using it since 2016, and I would say the advantages are mostly related to their DevOps features - there are integrations with k8s, SentryIO, and Prometheus to help you with operations.
Their CI/CD pipelines also seem a bit more refined than GitHub actions - maybe it is just a maturity thing though? That could also just be my inexperience with GitHub Actions.
I think there are also some project management differences in how the items are setup. GitLab, at the premium tier, has epics where I believe GitHub doesn't any distinction.
That being said I believe you kind of trade features with GitHub depending on how much you pay for each platform. Both are pretty good products as far as I am concerned.