Earlier this week I had a family member get spooked by a web site with a fake blue screen tech support scam, the one where they tell you your computer has dire issues and you must pay them $300 to fix it. The page was taken down as of yesterday, but what is Gitlab doing to address this type of abuse in general?
Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
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Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#52Phabricator is a great alternative, by the way. Really stable and has the best code review interface / workflow I've ever used.
+1 for phabricator
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#53Gitlab users: How many hours per year do you spend on doing maintenance for your setup? (servers, updating, backups, troubleshooting, etc.)
Originally rigging gitlab-ce took a couple of hours, including standing up a VM, and setting up an S3 bucket for fire storage.
Checking backups once a week, 3 min.
Updates twice a month (using apt-get upgrade) 10 min counting integrity checks.
Nuisance factor: updating gitlab-ce drops a tiny little backup file in the backups folder.
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#54They can argue rationally all they like; GitHub is the Oracle of VC hosting ... nobody will get fired for choosing GitHub.
So far every early stage startup I've seen was using GitLab unless they only have open source / public projects and can use GitHub for free or need GitHub because of the community (it's still easier to get traction on GH as an open source project because so many developers already have a GH account).
GitLab has seen steady growth for years and has recently been gaining an increasing level of attention (in part because of the pricing changes and dodgy politics at GitHub). It's here to stay.
I hope GitLab.com will become more performant and stable. I would love to see GitHub for open source be replaced with a company actually built around open source rather than proprietary tech and catchy marketing.
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#55Earlier this week I had a family member get spooked by a web site with a fake blue screen tech support scam, the one where they tell you your computer has dire issues and you must pay them $300 to fix it. The page was taken down as of yesterday, but what is Gitlab doing to address this type of abuse in general?
You seem to have left out some context. What does this have to do with Gitlab?
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#56I was pretty impressed with how easy it was to get free CI runs on pushes and merge requests with my OSS game: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/commit/73e84d11ed33ff...
This made GitLab hosted repos well worth it for me over github or bitbucket:
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#57Earlier this week I had a family member get spooked by a web site with a fake blue screen tech support scam, the one where they tell you your computer has dire issues and you must pay them $300 to fix it. The page was taken down as of yesterday, but what is Gitlab doing to address this type of abuse in general?
You seem to have left out some context. What does this have to do with Gitlab?
Hosted by Gitlab.
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#58I recently moved my personal project from GitHub to GitLab and the whole process took me less than a minute, with a simple git remote set-url on the client side. The future is amazing.
Not wanting to diminish what GitLab is doing, but what you mention is an inherent characteristic of git itself that applies the same way to GitHub, Bitbucket and a self hosted git bare repository. Any git host should expose a git interface for it to work as a git repository.
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll leave the marketing talk to less biased people here, but do note that: - you can use GitLab.com for free: unlimited public and private repositories, unlimited collaborators, free hosting of your Docker images, free hosting of your static site with any static site generator and free CI / CD - GitLab CE is fully open source (MIT Expat). You can easily install it anywhere you want.
Nothing is free in life. You should define free because it's border line a buzz word now.
You can use GitLab.com with no charge. It's free in the same sense as GitHub is free, except it also runs on open source software (well, GitLab EE, which is a superset of CE and has a proprietary license but is still developed and supported in the open unlike GitHub).
AFAICT the "cost" is that you're effectively load-testing GitLab EE and help guiding the development of a commercial product. Plus you're giving GitLab free marketing. But to the extent that anything in life can be considered "free" (as in "gratis"), GitLab.com can be used for free.
Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
#60I was pretty impressed with how easy it was to get free CI runs on pushes and merge requests with my OSS game: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/commit/73e84d11ed33ff...
We're working hard on making CI super easy to use and setup.
If you want to give it a spin, check out our recent blog post on starting from 0: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/29/the-basics-of-gitlab-ci/