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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 dpflan »

jacquesm wrote: post #10
boldslogan wrote: post #4

A cool part from the article >> part of a shadow program in which employees spend two weeks sitting in on their CEO’s meetings, feedback sessions and media or analyst calls Does anyone know of companies that do this "internship" / shadowing / mentoring built into the company?

We are nowhere near as valuable or successful as Gitlab but we also practice radical transparency, which means that all of our material conversations happen out in the open. This saves a lot of time and makes it much easier to stay on top of what is happening. Because many of our co-workers are remote we publish a once-per-month update that goes into substantial detail about the state of the business. I'm a firm beli…

Interesting. Who is "we" (which company)?

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

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Post by ndarwincorn »

willis936 wrote: post #25
trumbitta2 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "Create merge request" (from issue) button. It creates a new branch, with a smart name like 123-my-issue-title, and a new "pull request" for that issue and branch.

This sounds similar to Atlassian’s Jira/Bitbucket integration without the jira.

GitLab's value prop can be more or less summed up as 'everyone else gives you ala carte tools, we give you one that's unified'.

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

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Post by btasovac »

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…

We are offering our top tiers (Ultimate or Gold) for free to open source projects [1]. You can see the complete list in our repo [2]. Some of the most recent projects that received our free license are Arch Linux, the Tor Project, edX (currently migrating). Just to add a few more: Drupal, Haskell, VLC, Kali Linux, Lineage OS, and more on this comment [3].

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/program/

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/...

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724015

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

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Post by timwayne16 »

I am a huge fan of gitlab. We are in the process of moving our github org over. We love!! the gitlab ci tools. We use them extensively for mobile cicd. The gitlab ci runner is super easy to get running and coordinates well with a host and vm setup. We run it on a mac min sitting on my desk and have never had any issues with it. My only nitpick is the regex matching they do to mask protected environment variables from ci logs is not sufficient. It won't match + scrub aws secret keys in the logs, which seems like a pretty glaring problem in a cicd setup.

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

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Post by ndarwincorn »

trumbitta2 wrote: post #12
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?

The "Create merge request" (from issue) button. It creates a new branch, with a smart name like 123-my-issue-title, and a new "pull request" for that issue and branch.

A neat hidden feature (AFAIK, maybe it's buried in documentation) is that if you branch locally and name it [issue number]-branch-name, pushing that branch and opening an MR from it will automatically tie it to [issue number] for the same workflow.

Handy for those situations where you started writing code before opening an MR.

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

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Post by beilabs »

umvi wrote: post #111
toong wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Using all free plugins in our place. There is a free bitbucket status notifier that will update the CI build status on a branch / PR. You have to retry via the Jenkins dashboard.

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

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Post by ndarwincorn »

lucideer wrote: post #126
ndarwincorn wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Well, organically is a vague term. My usage of it was: go to GitLab/Hub and type into global site search box to find a project. This seemingly simple action does not work on Gitlab. To answer your question, I do the above often on Github. Probably found projects that way as recently as last week.

Interesting. Site-wide search in both cases has almost always been next-to-useless for me.

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

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Post by mroche »

lucideer wrote: post #49
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?

Reasons for initially switching to Gitlab: - Pricing structure made much more sense than Github's at the time. I would've been willing to pay for Github, but their pricing for private repos (now unlimited on the free plan) scaled steeply for any reasonable number. - In addition to private repos, their free plan still offers many features that Github's free plan lacks, and their paid plans have many more features agai…

Same here, though I can’t say I’ve seen the same issues with performance as others. Maybe because I’m not reading through several thousand line files, but loading the site and files is pretty snappy over here. It’s not like a static site, but I’m never twiddling my thumbs. The GitLab site itself is a bit slow, but self hosted never seen wait times.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

dpflan wrote: post #131
jacquesm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are nowhere near as valuable or successful as Gitlab but we also practice radical transparency, which means that all of our material conversations happen out in the open. This saves a lot of time and makes it much easier to stay on top of what is happening. Because many of our co-workers are remote we publish a once-per-month update that goes into substantial detail about the state of the business. I'm a firm beli…

Interesting. Who is "we" (which company)?

The Modular Company, a small group of people providing technical due diligence services to VC and PE.

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

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Post by the_jeremy »

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?

Gitlab-CI is easy(ish) to learn and extremely well documented. The built-in container registry and artifact repo are super useful.
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