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Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by connorshea »

bovermyer wrote: post #107
btcmike wrote: post #100

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I did the same last month and then transferred back to bitbucket. The response time on gitlab.com was painfully slow. That extra 2-3 seconds waits for each commit was enough to drive me back. I still use github for professional projects and bitbucket for personal ones.

I had the same experience. The other thing I would add is that the social side of Gitlab is not as refined as GitHub's. There's no "timeline," for example. I pay for GitHub and enjoy it.

By "timeline" do you mean the GitHub activity feed on the home page when you're logged in?

We have an Activity feed which you can set as your homepage if you'd like, though maybe it's missing features you'd like?

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by zeveb »

explorigin wrote: post #197
pille wrote: post #176

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Someone had to design that automation. And it sounds like the message was at least made to look like it came from a person.

Go read up on Github user: CoralineAda [1][2] Then consider that GitHub hired her. I would not be surprised if the this automated script and her employment were directly related. [1] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/954 [2] https://github.com/CoralineAda?tab=activity

> Then consider that GitHub hired her.

I'm not terribly surprised. GitHub is, after all, a company which changed its logo to celebrate a highly political U.S. Supreme Court decision and which has had issues with left-wing racism (http://www.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-...).

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by uremog »

cloverich wrote: post #129
pille wrote: post #121

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Maybe she actually could've read the text and figured it out herself before sending out the note? Just firing off a warning based on a simple text match seems high-handed and/or incompetent enough to consider leaving.

Just to be clear, you're saying: "If large company x hires a single incompetent person, that is a good reason to never deal with said company again." I think that's the parents interpretation of OP and hence the "seems like a disproportionate response." (I agree it was absurd to flag the content).

I don't really want my code repo judging me for my word choice.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by zthall »

If GitLab's issues allow you to mark as unread or flag it in any way to come back to it, then I'm sold.

I can't believe this still isn't a Github feature. I don't know how many times I've lost track of issues or forgotten because I can't flag them.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by zeveb »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #227
justinpombrio wrote: post #208

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"retard" is also a correct word to use here; it means "to delay". > If you would like to know why it's offensive to some people, I could educate you. Could you educate us as to why it's offensive in this context ? I think we all know why calling a mentally handicapped person "retarded" offends some people, but no one did so.

Since you asked, Words are powerful and stir up emotions. In this context, someone stigmatized as "slow" or "dumb" by society, reading a sentence with the word "retard" in it has to deal with bad memories from the past rather than understanding the concepts in this sentence. Clearly, an alternative word choice exists. That's one reason why it's offensive.

> Words are powerful and stir up emotions.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Yes, words do stir up emotions, but well-adjusted adults learn as children to control and channel their emotions in healthy, constructive ways, rather than permitting themselves to be debilitated by seeing a perfectly correct word used perfectly correctly — and inoffensively.

> In this context, someone stigmatized as "slow" or "dumb" by society, reading a sentence with the word "retard" in it has to deal with bad memories from the past rather than understanding the concepts in this sentence.

Someone so emotionally fragile would be offended even by reading your sentence about the original sentence!

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by gknoy »

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #227
justinpombrio wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"retard" is also a correct word to use here; it means "to delay". > If you would like to know why it's offensive to some people, I could educate you. Could you educate us as to why it's offensive in this context ? I think we all know why calling a mentally handicapped person "retarded" offends some people, but no one did so.

Since you asked, Words are powerful and stir up emotions. In this context, someone stigmatized as "slow" or "dumb" by society, reading a sentence with the word "retard" in it has to deal with bad memories from the past rather than understanding the concepts in this sentence. Clearly, an alternative word choice exists. That's one reason why it's offensive.

It's a completely different word, though.

"retard" (pronounced "RE-tard") is the derogatory term, but the context used in this sentence (to slow something down) is pronounced "re-TARD". The only people who would be offended by that are those who have never been introduced to the other word with the same spelling (but different sound).

Indeed, the _primary_ listed meaning for this word [0] is the verb form, not the derogatory meaning.

    [ri-tahrd, for 1–3, 5; ree-tahrd for 4]
0: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/retard

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by connorshea »

zthall wrote: post #234

If GitLab's issues allow you to mark as unread or flag it in any way to come back to it, then I'm sold. I can't believe this still isn't a Github feature. I don't know how many times I've lost track of issues or forgotten because I can't flag them.

You'll be very happy to hear about Todos[1] then! You can add a todo or mark it as done from the sidebar on any issue or merge request. It'll stay in your Todo list until you mark it as done or comment on the issue/MR.

We'll be waiting for you at https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in :P

[1]: http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/todos.html

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by senthil_rajasek »

gknoy wrote: post #236
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you asked, Words are powerful and stir up emotions. In this context, someone stigmatized as "slow" or "dumb" by society, reading a sentence with the word "retard" in it has to deal with bad memories from the past rather than understanding the concepts in this sentence. Clearly, an alternative word choice exists. That's one reason why it's offensive.

It's a completely different word, though. "retard" (pronounced "RE-tard") is the derogatory term, but the context used in this sentence (to slow something down) is pronounced "re-TARD". The only people who would be offended by that are those who have never been introduced to the other word with the same spelling (but different sound). Indeed, the _primary_ listed meaning for this word [0] is the verb form, not the de…

recede is less ambiguous.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by kmonsen »

AWildDHHAppears wrote: post #111

Interesting. For projects that don't need a "community" we've been using Amazon CodeCommit. We don't like to use Github anymore because of the politics there. Example: We had a project involving software filters that included this sentence in the description: > Phase is related to time, but a pure time delay does not involve any phase shift. A pure time delay or "group delay" is constant with frequency. Phase shift v…

Why are you specifying it was a woman?

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by senthil_rajasek »

zeveb wrote: post #235
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since you asked, Words are powerful and stir up emotions. In this context, someone stigmatized as "slow" or "dumb" by society, reading a sentence with the word "retard" in it has to deal with bad memories from the past rather than understanding the concepts in this sentence. Clearly, an alternative word choice exists. That's one reason why it's offensive.

> Words are powerful and stir up emotions. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Yes, words do stir up emotions, but well-adjusted adults learn as children to control and channel their emotions in healthy, constructive ways, rather than permitting themselves to be debilitated by seeing a perfectly correct word used perfectly correctly — and inoffensively. > In this context, someone stigm…

Yes, society can also help by being kind to one another.
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