GitLab 8.15 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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Post by sytse » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #81

connorshea wrote: post #28

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We've spent quite a bit of time this year improving performance, GitLab.com is still slower than it should be but it's a lot better now than it was in January. Self-hosted instances that meet the recommended specs are already fairly performant, though we're always working to improve things regardless. As mentioned in the blog post, this release we decreased page size a lot (from 1800kb to 718kb for a given Merge Requ…

This probably sounds like a strange comment/question, but one of the reasons I haven't moved over to gitlab is that I know that it is unlikely that I will every be a paying customer. I actually don't mind that much about the performance issues (because I really just want cloudy git storage), but I don't like to take something for free unless I know the person giving it really wants to give it... So as strange as it s…

We're very happy with people moving to GitLab.com. We just want to warn them that it will take us time to sort out the performance problems.

And over time we'll start monetizing it more, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/#free-forever for more information.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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Post by sytse » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 2:02 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #100

mikekchar wrote: post #81

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This probably sounds like a strange comment/question, but one of the reasons I haven't moved over to gitlab is that I know that it is unlikely that I will every be a paying customer. I actually don't mind that much about the performance issues (because I really just want cloudy git storage), but I don't like to take something for free unless I know the person giving it really wants to give it... So as strange as it s…

Networking effects are serious stuff. If you use it, you’re more likely to recommend it to others—or for public stuff, others will see you using it—and then they’ll start using it. And some of them will pay.

Exactly, free users can create familiarity with your product and awareness of your brand. We have a section about how to overcome the network effects https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#sequence

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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Post by sytse » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 2:03 PM UTC

Keats wrote: post #65

connorshea wrote: post #28

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We've spent quite a bit of time this year improving performance, GitLab.com is still slower than it should be but it's a lot better now than it was in January. Self-hosted instances that meet the recommended specs are already fairly performant, though we're always working to improve things regardless. As mentioned in the blog post, this release we decreased page size a lot (from 1800kb to 718kb for a given Merge Requ…

It's a bit better but still extremely slow (didn't try on premise). We're still using it instead of github because of the CI though

On-premises should be fast. Glad to hear you like CI. We're working on improving GitLab.com in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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Post by sytse » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 2:04 PM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #106

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Thanks for leaving a comment Sam. Glad to hear the upgrade went smooth and people are happy. People that experience problems are more likely to let us know about it so we greatly appreciate your comment.

and just upgraded to 8.15.1 flawlessly :)

Yay! And we got some great news coming out in the next few minutes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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Post by sytse » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #107

anhtran wrote: post #87

Gitlab has too many downtimes for upgrading. When I got a failed push I was saying: Oh gitlab has a new version... :meh:

We have a great deal of repos on our GitLab private server and even a major upgrade only results in 2 minutes or so of downtime. What spec hardware are you running this on?

I think this user meant the downtime on GitLab.com for upgrades. Self hosted installations indeed should be fast.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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Post by mikekchar » Tue, Dec 27, 2016, 12:03 AM UTC

sytse wrote: post #111

mikekchar wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This probably sounds like a strange comment/question, but one of the reasons I haven't moved over to gitlab is that I know that it is unlikely that I will every be a paying customer. I actually don't mind that much about the performance issues (because I really just want cloudy git storage), but I don't like to take something for free unless I know the person giving it really wants to give it... So as strange as it s…

We're very happy with people moving to GitLab.com. We just want to warn them that it will take us time to sort out the performance problems. And over time we'll start monetizing it more, see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/#free-forever for more information.

Thanks for that. Your link was actually useful because I didn't realise that you do builds as well. It is entirely possible that at some point this will be useful to me, so maybe I will become a paying customer after all.

And if I can just say, the more actual services you add to your system (as opposed to SaaS features), the more likely I am to become a paying customer. For me, I really value free software. I'm not so interested in paying for proprietary SaaS features, and receiving free services. I'd much, much rather pay for services and use free software.

Whether you can build a business around customers like me, I don't know, but I just wanted to make sure that you know there are at least some of us out there.

Re: GitLab 8.15 Released

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