"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well." Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
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Gitlab from YC to IPO
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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#12I recently wanted to try adding some diagrams to a markdown-formatted README file in a Github Enterprise repo. I saw a few solutions but they all seemed to require me to roll some kind of service or automation to generate a raster image of the diagram and reference that from the markdown. There's an outstanding feature request for Github to integrate this kind of thing in their markdown rendering. But it's been langu…
I agree with the general thrust of your comment (and I've been happy to see that GitHub's feature development pick up over the past few years), but I don't know if Markdown is the best example: I've lost track of how many times I or someone else I work with has written some Markdown, only to discover that it's a GH or GL extension and that our deployed documentation (or package index pages) don't render our hard work correctly.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#13"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well." Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#14"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well." Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#15Another big win for Joe Montana, but this time via Liquid 2 Ventures.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#16Oh geez. This most likely means the frequency of their updates will get even faster and their somewhat dubious quality will plummet.
Who knows, maybe I’ll be wrong and their auto devops pipelines might actually get rid of kubernetes namespaces for branches that don’t exist! :0
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#17"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well." Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
Thank you everyone.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#18I haven't used gitlab much, but I was shocked to hear GitHub's CTO (at the time of the interview, he has moved on since) state that GitHub didn't consider them a competitor. "I do think that people still, to this day, think of GitLab as one of our main competitors, and I never have ever saw GitLab as a competitor." https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud... Anyone have thoughts on that? Or pointe…
GitHub has stronger 'social' features and it's better for people who want to connect to other devs or build portfolios.
GitLab is years ahead of GitHub for certain stuff (e.g. CI/CD) and IMO it has a better commercial offering for business.
I use GitHub as my portfolio profile for free and GitLab in my $JOB.
That's my opinion tho, I'm just a person who uses both.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#19I recently wanted to try adding some diagrams to a markdown-formatted README file in a Github Enterprise repo. I saw a few solutions but they all seemed to require me to roll some kind of service or automation to generate a raster image of the diagram and reference that from the markdown. There's an outstanding feature request for Github to integrate this kind of thing in their markdown rendering. But it's been langu…
I think it is fair to say Gitlab is already eating Github's lunch. For some time.
Are they? What's the Gitlab market share?
Also, it sounds to me like Github is leaving the old lunch of "Git hosting + issue tracking" on the table, and moving on to being a kind of web-based all-in-one full-service collaboration/dev platform with a social network built in. So even if Gitlab picks up some single-digit-percentage market share, that's not what Github cares about anyway.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#20I haven't used gitlab much, but I was shocked to hear GitHub's CTO (at the time of the interview, he has moved on since) state that GitHub didn't consider them a competitor. "I do think that people still, to this day, think of GitLab as one of our main competitors, and I never have ever saw GitLab as a competitor." https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud... Anyone have thoughts on that? Or pointe…
GitHub has stronger 'social' features and it's better for people who want to connect to other devs or build portfolios. GitLab is years ahead of GitHub for certain stuff (e.g. CI/CD) and IMO it has a better commercial offering for business. I use GitHub as my portfolio profile for free and GitLab in my $JOB. That's my opinion tho, I'm just a person who uses both.
Yeah they’re similar feature-wise but the communities that exists on GitHub vs. GitLab aren’t remotely comparable.