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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Our University recently moved from SVN to self-hosted Gitlab for internal projects It integrates nicely with our LDAP server so that you can easily search for collegues and students to add them to projects. I totally love it.

It's probably not a coincidence, as Gitlab used to be Utrecht-based if I recall correctly.

Just want to thank you guys for not having to use SVN for my graduate project.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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One example would be KDE, who considered Gitlab but ended up going with Phabricator because they are one of those 100+ developer projects that wanted the LDAP, analytics, logging, etc but also being a major open source software community wouldn't settle to not dogfood free software, and the CE was missing too much at the time. Personally, I much prefer Gitlabs project -> code / issues / milestones / etc workflow over…

Currently GitLab has LDAP, analytics, and logging. I'm glad you like the UX of GitLab. I'm not sure what essential features are still missing from it in your opinion. Can you elaborate?

I'm not one of the KDE web devs that run their infrastructure, I'm just a project contributor / maintainer. There has been some historical recording of the process that led to KDE having to give up on the idea, though:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.community/61... https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2014q1/000667.h... https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=292&t=130854&p=350671#...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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I'm wondering if github and gitlab implemented their own version of git under the hood, or if they just use the vanilla git everyone else uses on their server.

AFAIK github implemented Libgit2 (or are at least a major contributor), which is an independent implementation. Am on mobile, so sorry for lack of sources.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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So is there built-in CI for free open source project hosting?

GitLab CE is the free edition, so the answer to your question is yes.

Nice, I need to copy one of my projects from github and try the CI (with Windows) support then. Sounds too good to be true.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Our local instance is only a version back but we find gitlab to be terrifically slow, and regularly have to kick the server as we find it stops tracking updates, then simply stops responding at all. Also, the diffing on merge requests is simply awful. It regularly shits itself on spacing changes and the like making most merge requests almost useless from a code review perspective. Searching just doesn't work. At all.…

I have to agree regarding the slowness, and although we do have many repositories (~100) and the machine only has 2GiB of RAM, it does feel slow for a service that sits idle 90% of the time, and almost never gets concurrent user access. We're on 8.0.0, so maybe it has gotten better.

That said, are you sure you don't have a very old version? There is a simple path for accessing code in a branch, you can just click the repo, then on the button that shows the number of branches ("N branches"), then click on the branch you want. If you want to see the files in an older commit of that branch, just click on "History" and then "browse files" on the commit line.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Digging through the site I see you endorse the Contributor Covenant, a prime example of entry-ism written by serial harasser and radical feminist Coraline Ada Ehmke. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3ab802/warr... Unfortunately until this Code of Conduct is withdrawn and links with serial Harasser and political entriest Coraline Ada Ehmke are removed I can not endorse or contribute to GitLab. I do hop…

I followed the link, and though I did see Caroline Ada trying to bully someone out of a community, I didn't see any evidence GitLab CEO supports the Contributor Covenant.

As you can see from the link the real intent of the creators of the Contributor Covenant and there 'inclusive' contract is really to attack, bully and exclude people who do not convert to there cult like sudo-religion.

Codes of conduct will not increase participation in your project they will reduce participation. No one wants to be part of a nanny state where political ideologues like Coraline Ada Ehmke poor over social media and attack you when they read things that disagree with there personal political and religious beliefs.

Project leaders and Platform providers can remove the door for entry-ism by simply removing third party codes of conduct. If you still feel the need to have some community guidance keep it simple to the point and honest.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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I've been using Bitbucket for 3 years now and i absolutely love the fact that you can create private repos and have many tools available for free, highly recommended.

I agree, and I also love that for students you get unlimited everything. You get to have 5 team members per repository for free, which is great for smaller development teams. If BitBucket wasn't where I house some of my private projects already I would move to GitLab.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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The elasticsearch feature is EE only, it was released in 8.4 https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/22/gitlab-8-4-released/

Hi, I'm planning on migrating away from stash to most likely gitlab in the next few weeks. One thing that keeps coming back among my team is where is the real search power. I followed the work your team did with EE and Elastic and was curious if you will plan to back port it into CE? all i read is that it's EE, but will it be brought to CE is the bigger question, and how does that fall into your current roadmap for u…

I'm at Sourcegraph. We have code intelligence for more languages coming soon and have improved performance, etc., by quite a bit lately. Email me for more info (we're waiting a bit longer to announce the improvements publicly).

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Concerned about the long term implications of the high growth startup model... Gitlab is awesome and all that, but how can I be sure the free version will stay that way in the long run? Is the free (free as in beer, I'm not an open source zealot otherwise) Gitlab not just a part of the conversion funnel, eventually made unsustainable once growth plateaus?

Thanks for your question! We're a VC backed startup so we have to have a so called liquidity event at some point. As explained on https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ our goal is to IPO instead of being aquired. This will ensure we can preserve our culture, mission and goals. There will always be an open source version of GitLab, more than 1000 people contributed and it the most popular self-hosted option, used on-prem…

> IPO

> preserve our culture, mission and goals.

Pick one. Or is there a historic precedent I'm unaware of?

On a serious note, the shift in the latter parameters can be smaller than in an acquisition, but to "preserve" would imply actively managing employee (and founder) expectations in the build-up to IPO.

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