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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by umvi »

toong wrote: post #97
umvi wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

Jenkinsfile + BitBucket works just nicely here. Getting that to work with GitHub is more painful (pain mostly related to automated webhook-management) I can't compare to GitLab right now ;-)

Are you using any of the paid Jenkins plugins in the Atlassian Marketplace? Does BitBucket show CI build status on PRs? Can you retry builds from BitBucket or do you have to visit Jenkins dashboard to retry a build? (Just curious, we recently switched, and I'm finding Jenkins to have a much steeper learning curve than GitLab CI had)

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by tikkabhuna »

lucideer wrote: post #105
petercooper wrote: post #82

Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects? I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos. Lest you think it's just…

Search friendliness. Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of "marketing site" for developers. Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.

Search in general in Gitlab is painful. Searches seem to require 3 or more characters, but if you put two you just don't see any results. No warning saying add more. Pretty intuitive.

The file name search is pretty rapid though.

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Post by danShumway »

Townley wrote: post #17
cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

I want to say it's the freedom to self-host, but really it's the CI. Throwing a .gitlab-ci.yml file into my repo is by far the easiest way to get CI/CD incorporated into a product. The configuration of test runners (or lack thereof) is both a breeze and extremely powerful. I'm not even talking about the auto-devops thing that I haven't tried; writing your own gitlab-ci file worked in frictionless ways that CircleCI,…

Agreed. The big thing is that when I'm starting a Node project, Gitlab's CI setup is like 5 lines in a text file and takes me literally about 30 seconds to set up. It's stupidly easy.

This has been a huge influence in me doing more automatic testing on personal projects and using merge-based workflows more often.

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Post by eternalny1 »

dpflan wrote: post #47
s_dev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.

It's being tightly integrated with Azure and the new Azure DevOps.

From my experience working with that, it's very nice. But there is always the anti-Microsoft bias around, so GitLab may do well for that reason alone.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by PretzelFisch »

dpflan wrote: post #47
s_dev wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.

GitHub should help azure compete with amazon's aws offerings as well as Google's. GitHub is also where MS hosts many of their open source projects so brining that "in house" was probably a large part of the acquisition strategy.

How GitLab can have this kind of high evaluation is beyond me when they sale only one part of what Atlassian( bitbucket) offers.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by packetlost »

petercooper wrote: post #82

Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects? I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos. Lest you think it's just…

Looks like freedesktop.org hosts their code on a private GitLab instance now: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/explore/groups

I'm guessing GitLab will slowly gain more and more traction in the OSS community. It hasn't been around for nearly as long as GitHub, and has several compelling reasons to be used over GitHub specifically for open source projects.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho »

Please give gitlab some more money so they can enhance development. My experience with gitlab has not been the best. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20923559 But congrats to the team too. It's good to see another startup succeeding for delivering real value.

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Post by jansan »

s_dev wrote: post #34
dpflan wrote: post #6

I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?

Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

This may be the one big reason.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by ndarwincorn »

lucideer wrote: post #105
petercooper wrote: post #82

Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects? I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos. Lest you think it's just…

Search friendliness. Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of "marketing site" for developers. Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.

When was the last time you found a project organically on GitHub?
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