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Gitlab 13.10 Released

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Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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post #29

The Gitlab licensing model was recently change and the lowest tier starter license was removed. Anyone knows which of these new features a customer receives that is still on "starter" (which can be kept for up to one year after the change to the license model)?

You stay on basic until your subscription expires or you upgrade: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/faq-new-product-subscriptio...

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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I feel that Gitlab needs to optimize for the 90% use case instead of adding more features. For example does anyone else find Gitlabs diff lacking? It makes reviewing large patches painful, with the seemingly constant fetching of individual file diffs and inability to show large file diffs. The UI in general feels sluggish, especially when compared to something like Gerrit or GitHub.

So much second this. It actually feels like it is getting slower on each upgrade, and more buggy. Am I the only one who finds that the "go to next unresolved" button now often goes into an inconsistent non-working state that requires a (slow) refresh? Given that I spend most of my time on GitLab reviewing, this is a real pain point for me.

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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post #28

Can we just get a decent unified Notification Center, please? Notifications in GitLab are painful, just copy how GitHub does it and stop trying to make it so complicated.

Not being a gitlab user I'm surprised its notification are worse than github's, because it's not like github's notifications are any good. Between the comment notifications which don't link you anywhere half the time (possibly on inline comments? I never remember) and the update notifications which give you a completely empty diff on a push force, it only serves to signal that something happened on this thing you don't even care about.

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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post #26

I am curious, at what point will the features stop? Do we keep adding features until Gitlab becomes impossibly complex to use or onboard anyone? Why isn't Gitlab built like a modular app - add what you want but core should be simple as possible and feature complete. I am afraid but this is how a lot of applications die. Gitlab is starting to get bulky and obese already.

I think this is a real strategic challenge for Gitlab; I think the answer is "the features never stop", and that is OK, as long as you understand their target customer/market. I first started thinking hard about this when they recently cancelled their bronze tier subscription. Gitlab is clearly ducking out of a brawl with Github for the individual/consumer $5/month tier; that makes sense as there is no way Gitlab can…

Thanks for inviting me to comment. I think we still cater to individual contributors with our Free offering.

It isn't so much about the customer but about the product. Our ambition went from being a source code tool to a complete DevOps platform delivered as a single application.

I think a lot of the changes you see can be explained from that.

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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I feel that Gitlab needs to optimize for the 90% use case instead of adding more features. For example does anyone else find Gitlabs diff lacking? It makes reviewing large patches painful, with the seemingly constant fetching of individual file diffs and inability to show large file diffs. The UI in general feels sluggish, especially when compared to something like Gerrit or GitHub.

The thing I miss the most from the reviewing process is the ability to review diffs per-commit.

This is closer to how git is used in the linux mailing lists but gitlab completely breaks that workflow. Github has added some support for that. And yeah, performance sucks, even for trivial patches.

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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post #27
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On https://gitlab.com/help I see 13.11.0-pre as the version. Maybe you're working on a self-managed version that still needs to be updated?

I'm talking about this: https://i.imgur.com/isbEqn6.png My instance is definitely updated, I did it myself and verified the version number in the Admin section.

Hi Operyl - GitLab Product Leader here. Our process for updating the What's New content is delayed slightly from the release (as we use the release post images that are published on the 22nd for the What's New highlights). They'll show up shortly.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/release-pos...

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

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post #27
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On https://gitlab.com/help I see 13.11.0-pre as the version. Maybe you're working on a self-managed version that still needs to be updated?

I'm talking about this: https://i.imgur.com/isbEqn6.png My instance is definitely updated, I did it myself and verified the version number in the Admin section.

Here is the MR for 13.10 What's New Content. You'll need to update to the first point release after 13.10.0 to get this content. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/57119

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

#39
post #28

Can we just get a decent unified Notification Center, please? Notifications in GitLab are painful, just copy how GitHub does it and stop trying to make it so complicated.

Not being a gitlab user I'm surprised its notification are worse than github's, because it's not like github's notifications are any good. Between the comment notifications which don't link you anywhere half the time (possibly on inline comments? I never remember) and the update notifications which give you a completely empty diff on a push force, it only serves to signal that something happened on this thing you don…

All GitLab notifications are via email unless someone explicitly @s you. Furthermore, there is no api to notification. Basically, unless you monitor email, you don’t get notifications. It’s horrible.

Re: Gitlab 13.10 Released

#40
post #29

The Gitlab licensing model was recently change and the lowest tier starter license was removed. Anyone knows which of these new features a customer receives that is still on "starter" (which can be kept for up to one year after the change to the license model)?

All new features target Free/Premium/Ultimate. Starter customer are still getting new features, improvements and fixes — they are the same features that are also available on the Free tier. For Starter customers who elected to upgrade to Premium for free, they will also have access to the new Premium features.
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