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Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by mydigitalself »

scrollaway wrote: post #6

Pricing feedback: Like kcorbitt said you're providing a lot of value to free users but here's some super weird stuff in the silver plan that I don't think should be there: - Block secret file push - Fast-forward merge with option to rebase - Squash and merge - Multiple assignees for issues - Issue Boards with Milestones Aside from the first one those are all features provided by free from Github which also don't make…

Hi there, those features are all available for free for public projects, it's only for private projects where we limit some functionality.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#32

Post by davidgl »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

But to be fair, Gitlab does a lot more than these. We use it at work for all the issue tracking, pipeline and CI, pages and wiki features beyond the simple GIT hosting.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by zschuessler »

This makes me slightly worried.

I'm fine with paying for a service like Gitlab's hosted instance (and will start paying for it), it's a pretty good service. The UI isn't amazing but the tools are better IMO than GitHub's.. last time I checked, anyway.

What worries me is that as a heavy user of self-hosted CE, I see frequently that many features that I would like are enterprise (EE) only. Something like doing an IP whitelist/banlist on your server in the nginx config is surprisingly difficult unless you are an EE customer. It's a common use case that shouldn't be EE-only.

This change on their values (the very generous free private hosting) makes me wonder what the future holds.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#34

Post by ComputerGuru »

davidgl wrote: post #32
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Mandatory heads-up for those that haven't come across them: gogs [0] and its fork gitea [1] are zero config, download-and-run, self-hosted alternatives to GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab that won't suck the life out of your server, are efficiently written, and very fast even on underpowered (read: RPi) hardware or shared VPS nodes. 0: https://gogs.io/ 1: https://gitea.io/en-US/

But to be fair, Gitlab does a lot more than these. We use it at work for all the issue tracking, pipeline and CI, pages and wiki features beyond the simple GIT hosting.

I don't know about CI, but gogs/gitea does issues and wiki.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#35

Post by petepete »

brianwawok wrote: post #28
koolba wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Either you really have no clue what you're talking about (GitLab CE is totally free, both as in beer and speech) or this is some clever guerilla marketing by GitLab. If it's the latter, color me impressed!

Gitlab EES and EEP are not free

Clue's in the name.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#36

Post by sicklysweet »

dimitrieh wrote: post #12
fny wrote: post #2

God bless you all. I was on the verge of setting up a Gitlab CI instance on a local box for our projects since we're about to outstrip the free tier. Upgrading will be way less expensive for my client and me.

Happy to hear so! GitLab.com should be able to offer all the features you need if you wish not to self-host! Happy GitLabbing!

Super! That's really super, and awesome! Happy internetting!

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by connorshea »

jasonrhaas wrote: post #19
jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

While I'm at it, I may as well offer some other feedback as well: Pros - UI is top notch - Love the built in features (pipelines, CI/CD, docker registry) - Private repos, free stuff Cons - Performance is improving, but still seems a bit slow at times - Pipelines could be a bit faster. The build and test times seem to vary a lot per commit. - Better documentation on pipelines and the .gitlab-ci.yml file. It seems a bi…

We do have project templates now for a few web frameworks, and the web editor can give you .gitignore templates, but yeah we don't currently have a way of adding these files by default when creating a project.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#38

Post by Snappy »

jasonrhaas wrote: post #19
jasonrhaas wrote: post #13

I have been using the free hosted plan for about a month now, which includes the "Silver" tier features. I'm really happy about their Early Adopter program! They are keeping my current Silver capability for free for another 12 months. I have to say, I really like gitlab.com. The UI is slick, and you get a ton of features right out of the box (for free). Bravo gitlab.com, keep up the good work!

While I'm at it, I may as well offer some other feedback as well: Pros - UI is top notch - Love the built in features (pipelines, CI/CD, docker registry) - Private repos, free stuff Cons - Performance is improving, but still seems a bit slow at times - Pipelines could be a bit faster. The build and test times seem to vary a lot per commit. - Better documentation on pipelines and the .gitlab-ci.yml file. It seems a bi…

Thanks for the feedback!

As you know, we're constantly improving the performance.

There's an issue for CI performance (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21624), please add any specific feedback you have there.

For pipeline documentation, please consider creating an issue if you have any specific feedback. We'd love to know what we can improve there.

We do offer .gitignore templates, so I assume you mean to offer them during project creation. Please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19468 and add any feedback.

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

#39

Post by ValentineC »

mydigitalself wrote: post #31
scrollaway wrote: post #6

Pricing feedback: Like kcorbitt said you're providing a lot of value to free users but here's some super weird stuff in the silver plan that I don't think should be there: - Block secret file push - Fast-forward merge with option to rebase - Squash and merge - Multiple assignees for issues - Issue Boards with Milestones Aside from the first one those are all features provided by free from Github which also don't make…

Hi there, those features are all available for free for public projects, it's only for private projects where we limit some functionality.

From the pricing page:

> Public projects get all paid features and unlimited CI/CD for free.

I think this needs to be more obvious. ;) Perhaps the price tiers should be separated out into a Private Repo-only section?

Re: Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans

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Post by brainfire »

zschuessler wrote: post #33

This makes me slightly worried. I'm fine with paying for a service like Gitlab's hosted instance (and will start paying for it), it's a pretty good service. The UI isn't amazing but the tools are better IMO than GitHub's.. last time I checked, anyway. What worries me is that as a heavy user of self-hosted CE, I see frequently that many features that I would like are enterprise (EE) only. Something like doing an IP wh…

There's a configuration option in the omnibus CE config file to add additional lines to the built-in nginx configuration, it seems pretty straightforward to me - although we use a different web server so that we can integrate with our SSO, so I haven't tried it.
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