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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by bentlegen »

detaro wrote: post #93
bentlegen wrote: post #80

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> Open source* The Enterprise edition features[1] are closed source, and these aren't strictly "enterprise-y" features like SAML authentication. It includes plenty of "basic" workflow features found on GitHub: - Rebase merge requests before merge - Use fast-forward merges when possible - Create templates for issues and merge requests - Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI [1] https://about.gitlab.com…

Use fast-forward merges when possible GitHub (annoyingly) can't do fast-forward merges from non-squashed PRs either. Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI GitLab implements basically the same API as GitHub for updating build status of commits from external services, or do I misunderstand what feature you mean? But in general I agree, there are some options GitLab reserved for EE that really feel like…

Yeah, I just chose some random features that I may have interpreted incorrectly. There are others; people can read the features page for themselves.

And FWIW, I admire GitLab for their open source work. I just think it's worth distinguishing that it's not entirely open source.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by bentlegen »

Nimimi wrote: post #97
bentlegen wrote: post #80

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> Open source* The Enterprise edition features[1] are closed source, and these aren't strictly "enterprise-y" features like SAML authentication. It includes plenty of "basic" workflow features found on GitHub: - Rebase merge requests before merge - Use fast-forward merges when possible - Create templates for issues and merge requests - Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI [1] https://about.gitlab.com…

Take a look at Phabricator. It's a former Facebook project and been battle-tested at very large companies for years now. Huge open source projects like Blender, Haskell, Wikimedia and LLVM use it since it's the best open source code review tool and issue tracker. Wikimedia had a lengthy decision process and thoroughly vetted the alternatives. It has many enterprise features including code ownership, issue templates,…

I used Phabricator at a former employer, and it was one of the best software tools I've used. I'm always flabbergasted that it doesn't have more mindshare, especially when it's used internally at Facebook.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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matemaz wrote: post #81
kuschku wrote: post #65

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> It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. And that’s exactly why you shouldn’t use it. > Since the open letter to Github with the complaints of feature requests, This, and the answer from GitLab to that letter, is what made GitHub move in the first place. You need competition for a healthy market.

Here is some more competition in the form of a modular integrated tool 100% libre and open source. With a single instance of Tuleap you can have per project wildly different configurations. One project can have a scrum dashboard with GIT and pull requests, while another can be kanban and SVN with Jenkins CI, and a third could even be setup as Waterfall with CVS or other combinations. Issue tracking, or anything track…

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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by nchelluri »

jfim wrote: post #125
nchelluri wrote: post #111

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Where can I find a link about self hosted Github? Just curious to read about it.

It's github enterprise: https://enterprise.github.com/features#pricing

Thanks. I was unaware this existed. Looks like it was launched in 2011[1]. Somehow I thought that with their (presumably, from what little I've gathered over the years) complex infrastructure setup this would be hard or impossible. I wonder if they have an Enterprise team devoted to keeping up with a SaaS mainline and how much work they have to do, or if they made/make some decisions that make this (Enterprise) a fairly self-contained "it just works" sort of thing.

[1] https://github.com/blog/978-introducing-github-enterprise

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by StevePerkins »

elliotec wrote: post #77
lucideer wrote: post #70

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As well as the sibling comments here, one could also argue Gitlab deserves at least partial credit for motivating this pick up in pace.

I think it was more the open letter to Github, which motivated both Github and GitLab (seen as an opportunity to compete). GitLab's roadmap yesterday surely didn't motivate or spawn the "New GitHub Universe," and I wouldn't think that Github is very nervous about GitLab currently due to it's massive lead in the market. Maybe this new round of funding made some of the folks at Github look over at Gitlab, but I doubt t…

> massive lead in the market

Ehh... dominance among open source projects, and Hacker News and Reddit thread cool points, is one thing. But in boring old terms of actually making money, how IS GitHub doing?

"Enterprise" is practically a swear word here, but that's where the meaningful paying customers are. From my anecdotal experience, Atlassian absolutely dwarfs GitHub in the enterprise world... and that's just the enterprises that are willing to host code in the cloud to begin with.

For large shops demanding an on-prem solution, GitLab seems to have a much better story than GitHub since that's really their business model bread-and-butter. For GitLab, the cloud hosting is basically just a marketing tool.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by elliotec »

StevePerkins wrote: post #137
elliotec wrote: post #77

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I think it was more the open letter to Github, which motivated both Github and GitLab (seen as an opportunity to compete). GitLab's roadmap yesterday surely didn't motivate or spawn the "New GitHub Universe," and I wouldn't think that Github is very nervous about GitLab currently due to it's massive lead in the market. Maybe this new round of funding made some of the folks at Github look over at Gitlab, but I doubt t…

> massive lead in the market Ehh... dominance among open source projects, and Hacker News and Reddit thread cool points, is one thing. But in boring old terms of actually making money, how IS GitHub doing? "Enterprise" is practically a swear word here, but that's where the meaningful paying customers are. From my anecdotal experience, Atlassian absolutely dwarfs GitHub in the enterprise world... and that's just the e…

They're doing quite well, and have been pretty much since the beginning.

https://www.quora.com/How-close-is-GitHub-to-returning-to-pr...

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2486-bootstrapped-profitable-...

http://www.businessinsider.com/github-is-now-worth-2-billion...

It's historically been tough to compare them to Atlassian because Atlassian has provided tons of other enterprise services like Jira and Confluence, and an 8 year lead plus going public, but I think Github is definitely working on better squeezing into the enterprise space with this current announcement.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by gohwell »

How about diffs on pull request? The biggest gripe I have with github is the inability to compare my feature branch with the branch I'm merging too. The diff you see is comparing the feature branch with the "base" branch which would be stale when working on a dev team.
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