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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 slimsag »

emilycook wrote: post #259
ensignavenger wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are actually quite a few complaints on here about GitHub support, the difference is that Gitlab employees are replying to the complaints against their company. Seems like a lot of Gitlab employees follow Hacker News and want to help out. (It appears that Gitlab actually pays some of them to do this as part of their job, whereas for others it is not in their job description).

Hi yes! Someone who gets paid to do this here :P just wanted to give some background on my team (not that you asked for it OP, I just like to talk about myself apparently). But yeah my team (of 3 members lol) was spun up primarily because Sid our CEO wants to make sure that everyone in the company is plugged into what users are saying about us, and he cares about hackernews specifically since GitLab was founded here…

I really appreciate / admire the care you all have for devs by being a part of the conversation on HN. Support is _hard work_. I am a dev at a similar startup (Sourcegraph) and always try to take a page out of your book by being responsive and caring online in a similar manner.

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

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Post by emilycook »

Merad wrote: post #269
emilycook wrote: post #260

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Hi! GitLab employee, thank you for your feedback! I'm going to distribute it to the correct teams, but I wanted to respond to a few points: > when you look at the team list in Gitlab, it shows everyone who has access to the team This has been an ongoing issue for a while, but a fix is currently scheduled for 12.4: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/44958 > server squashing commits You don't have to prov…

Thanks for taking the time to respond! Re squash commits: as a MR author what I want is the ability to set the commit message in advance (even if it's just a check box to say "use the MR title and description". Using a commit message is a sane default behavior, but not extremely helpful most of the time (IMO). If I'm going to rely on it for the message in my squashed commit I'm going to have to remember to check my b…

Ahh gotcha, you seem to have pretty much the same feedback as this comment: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/47149#note_.... Commenting on this issue (and tagging @ntepluhina, one of the owners of the issue) with your feedback would be the best way for someone to see it! I can pass on the info too, but issue comments take precedence when we're prioritizing.

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

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Post by jdoliner »

cfv wrote: post #270

How does this even work? Like, does one plainly submit a form to the govt saying "yeah just double it" or what? I never actually got the hang of how this things are defined; can anyone ELI5?

It occurs as part of a fundraising process in which an investor invests money at a valuation that's double the previous one. As part of that there are forms filed that effectively say: "yeah just double it" but you don't file this forms outside of a fundraising process.

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

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Post by gmiller123456 »

HeavyStorm wrote: post #249
gmiller123456 wrote: post #243

Silly question: What are "CI pipeline minutes"? I read their FAQ which just says it's minutes used on their "runners", which only changes the question to "What are runners, and where do they fit in?" I figured out CI means Continuous Integration, which is something I don't use, nor want to. I'm mainly just interested to know if this comes in to play if I just want to use GitLab to publicly share code like on Github.

But I am curious... Why wouldn't you want to use a CI?

For anything I'd put on Git*b, it's largely unnecessary, as they'd just be tiny pet projects that only I would ever update. I'm surprised when I even get someone looking at my repos, let alone contributing to them.

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

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Post by emilycook »

ubercore wrote: post #257
emilycook wrote: post #234

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Ah sorry to hear that was your take-away, I'm not on support it's just my job to triage feedback [1]. We do have a Slack channel for support managers where I passed along your experience though, so hopefully we can improve! [1] (in case you care at all about my job description lol) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/community-relati...

Thanks for responding! It's one of those things for me that is positive in individual cases, ie your response here, but negative in aggregate. So, no worries!

Well I'm glad to hear this was positive for you at least! Our support managers are very receptive of feedback (and I know they're watching this thread too, hi friends), so I do really appreciate your constructive criticism. Hopefully we can improve on this, no one wants to be a pain-point :P

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

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Post by donmcronald »

dpflan wrote: post #47
s_dev wrote: post #34

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Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.

Microsoft has quite a few things they want to promote via GitHub.

* Azure * Azure * Azure * Azure * Azure

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

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Post by jrochkind1 »

alvern wrote: post #62
hobofan wrote: post #58

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> instead of stealing TravisCIs ideas (cough GitHub Actions Cough) Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Even _if_ that were true, that would probably be a good thing now that TravisCI is on life support.

Forgive my ignorance, but how is TravisCI on lifesupport? Is this because Idera aquired them?

They were purchased by a private equity company. Which does not usually mean any continued development. At it's best, it means keep the thing running well and continue to wring revenue out of it. But few and far between are the private equity purchases that are at their best. It also almost always means significant cost cutting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978251

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

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Post by tomcam »

pm90 wrote: post #37

Kudos to the team. While my current workspace is tied to GitHub, I will most certainly switch to Gitlab given the option to. Why? Only one reason: GitHub support is fucking horrible. It’s insanely bad, even for paying enterprise customers. Open a support ticket, you will get some superficial pointers to documentation, and then be completely ignored. Their Product team is the absolute worst too. There are so many thin…

I pay a princely $7 per month for GitHub and have always had surprisingly speedy, accurate, caring results-including follow ups.
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