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Re: GitLab Pages

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post #25

Yes. I lobbied several companies to terminate their enterpise contracts with github because of their racist attitudes. All switched within 2 weeks. Some to VS Team Services, some to Gitlab. My work projects went to MSFT, but I think I will transfer my side projects to gitlab from bitbucket, since they have pages now.

> racist attitudes Do you mind explaining this a little bit?

Here is a whole thread about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067

Re: GitLab Pages

#42
post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Racist attitudes? Interesting - not sure what you're talking about. Could you link a source?

Their new 'social impact team' isn't a fan of white people https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/690601512813367297 http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/08/report-anti-white-a...

Wow, that tweet is blatantly racist. I'm somewhat surprised that this wasn't made into a bigger deal. Or, if it was, that I somehow missed it.

Re: GitLab Pages

#44

Great start. The obvious missing feature is Let's Encrypt support. I would like to see hosting companies like GitLab implement HTTPS for 100% of their served pages, and Let's Encrypt is a key enabling technology to do so.

This is a great idea.

I believe we've looked into this before, but I couldn't find anything, so I've created an issue[0].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14926

edit:

Found the original issue:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/1096

Re: GitLab Pages

#45
post #10

I really like GitLab, we use it and they follow the business model I wish GitHub had. But as they become bigger and bigger I have to wonder how much longer until they start antagonizing GitHub with these feature clones, and who should have my support when that day comes.

You could support both of them. Support GitHub in defending their product from blatantly being copied, and support GitLab in preserving their momentum while making changes to their product so it doesn't look and behave quite so much like GitHub.

Re: GitLab Pages

#46
post #32

The custom runners and the ability to view the results of a build are killer features. I really hate GitHub's cryptic "something went wrong" emails.

Glad to hear you like this model!

We want you to be able to run anything. Any static site generator, any kind of script. Using our own CI seemed to make sense.

Re: GitLab Pages

#48
Congrats on new major feature. One thing I'd like to see developed further is support for per-branch pages. Right now it looks like you could jerryrig a build script that builds each branch in its own subdirectory, but that sounds bit suboptimal considering that any commit will trigger full rebuild of all branches.

Re: GitLab Pages

#49

This is great news, Gitlab really is coming along very, very fast. Does it say anything about where the sites are going to be hosted? Are they using AWS underneath or something? It's curious timing since literally just the other day I moved my Hugo site to Bitbucket + Aerobatics. But since I have all my other stuff on Gitlab already, it'd be kinda convenient.

I believe they are using Azure underneath, but someone from the gitlab team should probably confirm.

GitLab.com is running on Azure, so are GitLab Pages.

Re: GitLab Pages

#50
post #26
post #10

I really like GitLab, we use it and they follow the business model I wish GitHub had. But as they become bigger and bigger I have to wonder how much longer until they start antagonizing GitHub with these feature clones, and who should have my support when that day comes.

I'd say that it's a pretty easy choice. Pick the open source one.

Only Gitlab CE is OSS, GitLab EE is "publicly viewable" but neither FOSS/OSS [1].

It's really a shame because I would pay good money to have GitLab EE under a FOSS license.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/license-faq/

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