Having never used Gitlab, is there any advantage over Github?
At the time, a couple of years ago, better management of issues over a large number of projects (dozens) and Gitlab CI.
GitHub has caught on up on a few things since then.
Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
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Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#22We're currently using the starter edition for exactly one reason, ldap integration.
Now we're supposed to pay $240 / employee for an ldap integration?!
Not sure what we'll do but I suspect scripting some ldap integration into our gitlab will be one of the best spent times in terms of ROI for me this year.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#23Wow. Almost feels like a bait and switch. GitLab is now completely uncompetitive with GitHub in terms of price structure. 4-5x on monthly cost.
Github is deeply subsidized by Azure's marketing budget and benefits from larger scale. Gitlab can't compete head-to-head; they'll have to pivot or partner soon.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can self-host GitLab which may be an advantage for some. If you like the colour purple, there's that too!
You can also self-host Github Enterprise I believe.
Self hosted GitHub Enterprise does not allow for public access. So you can't expose your opensource projects to the world using your own instance.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#25> 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...
It is reasonable until corp realizes GitHub might be cheaper. Since the core product is git (ignoring the lock-in with CI/CD and other related GitLab features), organizations with cost constraints could be forced to move and that might be a cause of annoyance.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#26Okay, so I want to give gitlab the benefit of the doubt here. So look:
"GitLab is second only to Microsoft-owned GitHub in this market. GitHub is tough to compete with in part because of Microsoft's financial clout and the fact that GitHub is more a strategic asset to win developers than a profit centre."
Aren't ms kinda dumping the price here. As in selling at loss in order to kill competition. Wouldn't this be illegal in other industries. I get that the open source economy would be a bit confusing at times though.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#27Okay, so I want to give gitlab the benefit of the doubt here. So look: "GitLab is second only to Microsoft-owned GitHub in this market. GitHub is tough to compete with in part because of Microsoft's financial clout and the fact that GitHub is more a strategic asset to win developers than a profit centre." Aren't ms kinda dumping the price here. As in selling at loss in order to kill competition. Wouldn't this be ille…
What about Bitbucket?
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#28Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25918717
I wonder if there will be the notable absence of the CEO in this thread too.
That is remarkable.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#29We're currently using the starter edition for exactly one reason, ldap integration. Now we're supposed to pay $240 / employee for an ldap integration?! Not sure what we'll do but I suspect scripting some ldap integration into our gitlab will be one of the best spent times in terms of ROI for me this year.
$240 a year (per engineer) to keep your engineers focusing on providing product value is beyond paying for itself.
Building custom in house tooling always costs 5x more than engineers believe, and ultimately doesn't improve your end product. This kind of tooling would probably require at least 100 engineers to justify the innate cost of building and maintaining it.
Re: Gitlab removes its 'starter' tier Users must either pay 5x more or lose features
#30We're currently using the starter edition for exactly one reason, ldap integration. Now we're supposed to pay $240 / employee for an ldap integration?! Not sure what we'll do but I suspect scripting some ldap integration into our gitlab will be one of the best spent times in terms of ROI for me this year.
$240 a year (per engineer) to keep your engineers focusing on providing product value is beyond paying for itself. Building custom in house tooling always costs 5x more than engineers believe, and ultimately doesn't improve your end product. This kind of tooling would probably require at least 100 engineers to justify the innate cost of building and maintaining it.
true in general and usually more than 5x. some teams manage to turn it into 10, 20 and 40x
ldap integration sounds pretty simple though, so maybe not in this case