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Try discovering a project/package on GitLab vs GitHub. They really need to add proper search / explore mechanism.
I'm ok with a git hosting platform that has absolutely zero social media elements to it.
Gitlab has enabled China's censorship of foreign content and free speech: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_ga...
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I'm ok with a git hosting platform that has absolutely zero social media elements to it.
This also affects self hosted instances in a company where you want to find other packages though. It's not a "social network" feature.
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This also affects self hosted instances in a company where you want to find other packages though. It's not a "social network" feature.
You're telling me there are cases where a company has so many projects in it's gitlab instance that employees routinely have to search for things? That seems odd to me. I'd expect there to be a naming scheme for most things, and even if there's some oddball project, I'd think somebody else you work with knows about it and where it is. My company has maybe 20-30 projects, and I can find any of them easily if I know th…
Ever worked in a company with micro services or a company that has a bunch of employees? You'll have hundreds of projects easily if it's a bunch of teams. If someone tells me "it's in our SRE libs package" I'll go ahead and search that. (Usually I can't find it because it's in a separate namespace on our Gitlab instance. Doing that is an Enterprise only feature on Gitlab right now: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_global_searc...)
The point is that search is important and not a social network gimmick.
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You're telling me there are cases where a company has so many projects in it's gitlab instance that employees routinely have to search for things? That seems odd to me. I'd expect there to be a naming scheme for most things, and even if there's some oddball project, I'd think somebody else you work with knows about it and where it is. My company has maybe 20-30 projects, and I can find any of them easily if I know th…
> My company has maybe 20-30 projects Ever worked in a company with micro services or a company that has a bunch of employees? You'll have hundreds of projects easily if it's a bunch of teams. If someone tells me "it's in our SRE libs package" I'll go ahead and search that. (Usually I can't find it because it's in a separate namespace on our Gitlab instance. Doing that is an Enterprise only feature on Gitlab right no…
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This also affects self hosted instances in a company where you want to find other packages though. It's not a "social network" feature.
You're telling me there are cases where a company has so many projects in it's gitlab instance that employees routinely have to search for things? That seems odd to me. I'd expect there to be a naming scheme for most things, and even if there's some oddball project, I'd think somebody else you work with knows about it and where it is. My company has maybe 20-30 projects, and I can find any of them easily if I know th…