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GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by gnomespaceship »

robinhood wrote: post #226

Of course this is happening. Gitlab's values were only there for marketing - just take a look at their massive turnover of employees who get burn so fast they don't have time to update the About page fast enough. Gitlab is a terrible company, period.

You're wrong about the values. Since the start, GitLab's values were real and lived, unlike every other company I've been at. Only after Staples' takeover as CEO and C-suite changes, they started eroding rapidly, starting with Transparency.

Source: I'm ex-GitLab

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by aiscoming »

zmmmmm wrote: post #107

Rather striking statements that have me somewhat concerned: > Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Git itself wasn't designed for that load, and bolting AI onto platforms not built for agents is the biggest mistake of this era. We're doing a generational rebuild of the underlying infrastructure to handle agent-rate work as the d…

steve yegee was saying this in december, that he had multiple people at companies with heavy AI usage telling him that git cant handle 1000+ commits per hour that these companies are producing now, that the agent can't push because between the push command initiation and its finish another push happened

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Post by rwmj »

usernametaken29 wrote: post #34

GitLab never ceases to amaze me in terms of just how bad their product roadmap is. Practical things like CI improvements are put off over UI rebranding on unicorn colours. Yet, good tooling is exactly why people used to pay for GitLab. For better or worse maybe this finally can change and we can get more customer oriented roadmaps again

The new UI is terrible, and the most important change they've done this year is ... drum roll ... renaming merge requests as "work items", because reasons.

Having said that, UI gripes aside, it works fine as a less complicated replacement for github.

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Post by sschueller »

arm32 wrote: post #7

Time to tell everybody about Forgejo, again.

As soon as they support groups/folders I will switch. But I can't as my gitlab is all setup in many folders and sub projects.

Having to rewrite all my CI will suck but will be worth it.

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by gnomespaceship »

simonw wrote: post #182

This title is editorialized - the original title is "GitLab Act 2" and both the workforce reduction and CREDIT values pieces are hidden in among the details.

In this case, you could say the original title is also misleading, or at least it doesn't say what it's really about, so imho the edit was justified

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by IshKebab »

janalsncm wrote: post #97
IshKebab wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm firmly not in Trump's anti-DEI camp but I have seen what can happen when you make it one of your core values. You can end up with a lot of people talking about it a lot, lots of meetings and initiatives rather than doing actual work. And usually those don't go anywhere because the people doing it don't have any power to actually change things. It's unlikely that a company like Gitlab really needs anything changin…

On the one hand, yeah, you should respect people who are different from you. On the other hand, this is really so obvious that I doubt elevating it to a “core value” makes much of a difference. Are there marginal people who wouldn’t respect diversity unless it was a core value? Then again I don’t even know what it means for something to be a core value. What is the practical upshot of “collaboration” being a core val…

> Then again I don’t even know what it means for something to be a core value.

Yeah I think they're mostly useless. At least you definitely don't get core values by just declaring that they are your motto. For example Amazon is pretty widely agreed to have customer satisfaction as a core value. They didn't get it by saying "Our core values are customer satisfaction...".

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