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Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Re: Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Post by afandian »

nicoburns wrote: post #6
cabalamat wrote: post #4

Does this mean I can ewrite a web app, put the source on GitLab and have GitLab run the web app (ideally with very minimal hassle)? If not, what does it mean? What is Gitlab letting me do now than (a) it didn't do before (b) Github doesn't do?

It means that a big part Gitlab's offering is now things like CI, whereas originally it was just code hosting.

They haven't sold them selves as 'just code hosting' for some time. I almost wish they did. They've negleted basic stuff yet their marketing sells them as an all-in-one solution. A thousand dollars per seat per year (no fractions!) for the WHOLE organization just for nested Epics? No thanks. This 2 year old thread just keeps on giving:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/213185

I'd join many participants in advising anyone to think very carefully before adopting GitLab.

Re: Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Post by tomtheelder »

lekevicius wrote: post #5

Old logo was probably the cleverest rendering of a fox using very few lines. The new logo is a lot less smart, much more standard. Typography is also uninspiring: seems to be using Inter, which is designed to not have any character (pun not intended). Although, to be fair, old logo also had very basic typography.

I was never a fan of the almost like gemstone like angularity of the old one. For me the new one does a good job capturing the spirit and the silhouette while just feeling a bit... nicer. I don't really know how else to put it, it just feels a lot more pleasant to look at.

Re: Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Post by cityzen »

john_cogs wrote: post #10
lekevicius wrote: post #5

Old logo was probably the cleverest rendering of a fox using very few lines. The new logo is a lot less smart, much more standard. Typography is also uninspiring: seems to be using Inter, which is designed to not have any character (pun not intended). Although, to be fair, old logo also had very basic typography.

The GitLab logo/mascot is actually a tanuki, a Japanese racoon dog. It symbolizes our values as a smart animal that works in a group to achieve a common goal.

Be honest, you picked it because Tanuki Mario is the best Mario.

Re: Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Post by _joel »

cabalamat wrote: post #4

Does this mean I can ewrite a web app, put the source on GitLab and have GitLab run the web app (ideally with very minimal hassle)? If not, what does it mean? What is Gitlab letting me do now than (a) it didn't do before (b) Github doesn't do?

Not exactly gitlab but a cloud provider via https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/index.html - bonus is you get feature branch hosting if you want too. I've used it and it worked well, even wrote an Elixir/Pheonix custom buildpack (but most common frameworks supported)

Re: Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Post by prepend »

As much as I love the mustache fox, I struggle with GitLab being at the center of devops. I think source is more powerful to non-devs and hitching everything to devops might present some challenges.

I work with lots of scientists and they don’t care about devops much now and may never need to. But they love GitHub because they collaborate on scripts, manuscripts, demos, small data files, etc. They pay $4/month or whatever and don’t care about devops. There’s lots of people like this.

I think there’s a smaller amount of proper software devs making software that require devops and will pay for devops.

If GitLab is really about devops, then they should be repo agnostic and work with lots of repos. But their core is still source management that they do really well. So their marketing is out of sync with their identity.

Re: Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab

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Post by kretaceous »

I love it.

- I like little quirks in logos like the infinity here.

- It's much more minimal. The old logo had too many unnecessary lines in my opinion.

- I quickly associate the canine appearance and the color orange as a fox so I'm not sure why people are not identifying as one.

- The subtle borders are chef's kiss.

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