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Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by moby »

sgarrity wrote: post #16

Some nice improvements here. It appears, though, that Projects suffer from the same problem we've had with Issues: they are limited to one repo. I know there are some tools to manage Issues across repos, but for the most part, the tools seem to assume you work on only one repo, or that milestones only affect a single repo. I would love to see projects/milestones become more capable when dealing with cross-repo issues…

Thanks for providing the feedback here - I've passed it along to the Engineering team building out Projects.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by sytse »

bentlegen wrote: post #131
detaro wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for the admiration. If there are features that people think that should belong in the open source edition we're all ears. We've done so before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931347 A feature comparison between CE and EE can be found on about.gitlab.com/features/#compare

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by tav »

If anyone from GitHub reads this, it would be great if you could use Task Lists [1] within Notes, e.g.

    Note Title.

    - [ ] Some subtask.
    - [x] Another subtask.
You could then group subtasks within a single note and tick them off as you go without having to edit the note every time. Cheers and thank you for the fantastic new features!

[1] https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-...

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by moby »

nchelluri wrote: post #136
jfim wrote: post #125

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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 fai…

Hi there - GitHub Enterprise definitely has a devoted team focused on building features tailored to the needs of customers requiring/requesting an on-premise solution, as well as making it entirely self-contained. We typically release a new version of GitHub Enterprise on a quarterly basis - you can see the latest additions we shipped with GitHub Enterprise 2.7 here: https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.7.0/notes

We have companies scaling their GitHub Enterprise instance up to 25,000 users, and we also have a dedicated Enterprise Support team available 24/5 to resolve any technical issues.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by frontendless »

elliotec wrote: post #55
captn3m0 wrote: post #17

This is a rough summary of what all I read in the blog post: 1. projects. replaces trello, waffle.io, zenhub and many other similar services. 2. code reviews allow approval/request changes as sunny's screenshot shows 3. reviews can be made mandatory. 4. github platform integrations is getting a roadmap 5. a graphql api to query their database 6. enforce 2fa in organizations (much love for this one) 7. summarized time…

I agree with you that the pick up in pace of Github's lacking features has been phenomenal, and I don't really quite understand all the love of GitLab except rooting for the underdog. Github is the clear industry leader, has been since essentially it's creation. It is very fast and feature-filled. It is the central location for the vast majority of code I use and see. Since the open letter to Github with the complain…

Very fast? Maybe in the US, but rest of the world still has oceans in between of them. Adding 200msec+ of latency to every request makes it feel very sluggish.

Maybe they should start looking into global rollout like Google, Facebook and basically every serious company having world-wide audience.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

#146

Post by nchelluri »

moby wrote: post #144
nchelluri wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fai…

Hi there - GitHub Enterprise definitely has a devoted team focused on building features tailored to the needs of customers requiring/requesting an on-premise solution, as well as making it entirely self-contained. We typically release a new version of GitHub Enterprise on a quarterly basis - you can see the latest additions we shipped with GitHub Enterprise 2.7 here: https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.7.0/notes…

Thanks for the answer straight from the horse's mouth! I'd often heard about companies storing their code on GH and didn't understand how they could get away with using a SaaS app available on a public cloud; now I know, they can just run a self-hosted version on their own private network.

I am not your target market, FWIW, but just a curious developer.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by moby »

tav wrote: post #143

If anyone from GitHub reads this, it would be great if you could use Task Lists [1] within Notes, e.g. Note Title. - [ ] Some subtask. - [x] Another subtask. You could then group subtasks within a single note and tick them off as you go without having to edit the note every time. Cheers and thank you for the fantastic new features! [1] https://github.com/blog/1375-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-...

Reading, and passing that feedback along to our Engineering team. Thanks!

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by dr_win »

rogerbinns wrote: post #44
sgarrity wrote: post #16

Some nice improvements here. It appears, though, that Projects suffer from the same problem we've had with Issues: they are limited to one repo. I know there are some tools to manage Issues across repos, but for the most part, the tools seem to assume you work on only one repo, or that milestones only affect a single repo. I would love to see projects/milestones become more capable when dealing with cross-repo issues…

This has been why we don't use github's issues, wikis, and why we won't use their projects. For example if the overall product has a web site repo, server repo, iOS repo and an Android repo then they need to be used as a coherent whole. An issue might be reported against iOS but the cause is in the server, so the ticket would need to be moved. Rinse and repeat for all the other interactions of piece, and that collabo…

I would put all projects under one repo as orphan branches. With some branch-naming conventions you can easily separate those.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by moby »

nchelluri wrote: post #146
moby wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there - GitHub Enterprise definitely has a devoted team focused on building features tailored to the needs of customers requiring/requesting an on-premise solution, as well as making it entirely self-contained. We typically release a new version of GitHub Enterprise on a quarterly basis - you can see the latest additions we shipped with GitHub Enterprise 2.7 here: https://enterprise.github.com/releases/2.7.0/notes…

Thanks for the answer straight from the horse's mouth! I'd often heard about companies storing their code on GH and didn't understand how they could get away with using a SaaS app available on a public cloud; now I know, they can just run a self-hosted version on their own private network. I am not your target market, FWIW, but just a curious developer.

No worries - glad to provide the additional details!

We also recognize that having a SaaS solution like GitHub Organizations meets the needs of many companies (over 75,000 at last count), and our announcement of 2FA enhancements today is an indication of our desire to continue that approach.

Re: Announcing new tools, forums, and features

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Post by imsodrunklol »

scrollaway wrote: post #11

Impressive. I have to think that this is all competition fostered by Gitlab - all those features were present in Gitlab. Competition at work :)

I have been a huge pusher for GitLab, and my basic reasoning was that GitHub isn't open sourced like GitLab. GitHub was going awfully slow and no communication to its customers in new features. Looks like GitLab lit a fire underneath them. I wonder which one is "better". Nevertheless, at least there is competition now. SCM is the biggest component in any coding practices, I'm that it is finally getting attention.
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