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GitLab 8.0 released with new looks and integrated CI

257 points by jobvandervoort 11y ago

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Easily the biggest change for GitLab to date. CI is now built-in and it's all easier on the eyes. We also removed the satellites, on which we used to do certain git operations. This frees up space, but also makes merges must more stable and faster. Let us know if you have any questions or comments.
- leejo 11y ago
  With this release is it necessary to migrate to the built in CI or can we still point at a different gitlab-CI server? We have gitlab running privately in a VPC on AWS but have gitlab-CI running locally (dedicated local server for the manager and runners) so, essentially, merging the two isn't going to be trivial.
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    No. We wouldn't be able to support and keep development going while supporting two different CI apps. Only the coordinator moves, so in theory you'd be able to use the same runners. It's not a trivial migration, we know. That is why we do this with a major release. We're also continuously improving the documentation for this migration. Our customers can reach out for online support, of course.
    - leejo 11y ago
      Understandable, thanks! Not sure when we will be updating, but will be in touch should we have any tricky issues migrating.
      - jobvandervoort 11y ago
        Great. Consider sending your upgrade plan ahead of time if there is anything tricky. We're happy to check it.
- myko 11y ago
  This looks awesome! I've been playing with it today and have setup a docker instance for doing Android builds on the same (Linux) machine that I've installed Gitlab on. I'm having trouble setting up Xcode/iOS builds on a Mac Mini over ssh and I don't see any specific documentation on that. Is that something you can point me to?
jsnathan 11y ago
I think I like the menu UI improvements in the screenshots. Those tiny symbols were a major pain for any new user, and it's good to see words next to them now. But is it possible yet to make the project files show up in the default view for projects? Many user interactions with a project don't go beyond browsing the files, and I wish I could enable GH-style default views.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  The text was always there, but is collapsed by choice and on small screens. It's either Activity or Readme now. I don't think it'd be very hard to add Files to that and don't have major problems with it. Consider sending a MR or creating an issue [0] to discuss this further. 0: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
  - sytse 11y ago
    I love this idea and created an issue for it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2655 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2655
qznc 11y ago
When will the Sandstorm package be updated? Will it support CI? https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/zx9d3pt0fjh4uqrprjftgpqfwgzp6y2ena6098ug3ctv37uv6kfh https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/zx9d3pt0fjh4uqrprjftgpqfwgzp6y...
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Not up to us, but I'm sure it will. We have an amazing community of organisations, users, contributors that are often very fast adopting our new releases. It will support CI. GitLab CI works with a central coordinator (now inside of GitLab) and external Runners. The Runner can be anything outside of the instance. This makes it easy to configure them to your liking and doesn't slow down you GitLab instance while builds are running. Documentation on Runners: http://doc.gitlab.com/ci/runners/README.html http://doc.gitlab.com/ci/runners/README.html
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danielsamuels 11y ago
The Mattermost preview screenshot is an odd choice - have a read of the conversation.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Got it from the Mattermost Beta1 announcement. Think it's inappropriate?
  - danielsamuels 11y ago
    Just seems weird for the conversation to be about how someone refuses to switch to it, that's all. :)
    - jasonlotito 11y ago
      > about how someone refuses to switch to it Keep reading.
- it33 11y ago
  Mattermost team here. Sorry if the screenshot is confusing. The text of the screenshot was actually written in Slack, and the goal of the screenshot was to demonstrate the Slack Import feature to GitLab Mattermost. On the GitLab Mattermost page (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost) there was a subtitle describing this, but we could have made it more clear in the screenshot itself.
mtrycz 11y ago
The messaging integration certainly looks really good, we're trying out Let's Chat, but development is kinda slow (and we don't have the time to contribute). How does GitLab CI compare to Jenkins? Will I be able to substitute it for simple and complex projects? Is there a slender version of GitLab for small computers like the RaspberryPi? All of the dependencies kinda hog/slow it down, and I don't really need realtime performance. I've grown fond of the interface (at work), and would like to use it for my hobby projects.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  GitLab CI should be able to replace Jenkins. Obviously, it doesn't have the maturity of Jenkins or the plugin ecosystem, but it's flexible runner system, easy configuration with .gitlab-ci.yml and integration with GitLab make it quite powerful. You can already have multiple, parallel builds, builds on success/failure, trigger builds and thus create pipelines. We don't support build artifacts yet, but you can circumvent this by using something like S3 for output. We'll add this in the future as well. GitLab should run just fine on Raspberry Pi 2. Do you have any data on slow down?
  - sytse 11y ago
    To download for the Raspberry Pi 2 just go to the download page and select that option https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
- mrmondo 11y ago
  We switched to building with Gitlab-CI and haven't looked back. A big bonus over Jenkins is the lack of Java.
transfire 11y ago
"If you runners overload your CI system now both go down" Isn't that a bit worrisome?
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Where does it say that? It should say that they don't both go down! Runners are fully external to GitLab and GitLab CI. This means they will never interfere with GitLab's functioning. You should not host a Runner on a GitLab instance. It was not intended like that and in the documentation we explicitly tell you to not do this.
  - transfire 11y ago
    I feel much better about it now. Thanks. I read it under "advantages and disadvantages".
    - haynes 11y ago
      Ahh I know where that came from. The runners push the build results back to the coordinator (which is now included in gitlab). So in theory, if you have a large number of runners and a very large number of concurrent builds, it could slow down gitlab a little bit. But the numbers you need to reach this are pretty high.
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pwpwp 11y ago
The killer feature (for me) would be if GitLab supported the GitHub API (even if just a subset).
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  In what way?
  - ihsw 11y ago
    GitLab could function (at least somewhat) as a drop-in replacement for GitHub, as existing GitHub API client libraries could point to GitLab instead with minimal/zero modification.
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      Interesting idea. I'm afraid it would cause us to follow their changes, which makes it a brittle strategy that would prevent us from innovating. We prefer people to adopt GitLab itself.
      - pearjuice 11y ago
        You could provide an adapter API which translates Github-like requests to your API. If you want to use specific GitLab API features, developers use the "native" GitLab API.
        bpicolo 11y ago
        I mean, if anybody really wants that they could easily open source it on their own. : P
netcraft 11y ago
Will it take some time to propagate? Using the omnibus AMI on ubuntu and doing sudo apt-get update / sudo apt-get install gitlab-ce doesn't pull the update.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  It should work! I double checked and upgraded my personal instance and it works here. Did apt-get update complete succesfully? Repo is here for double checking: https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce
  - netcraft 11y ago
    It looks like everything is working properly, this is what I get if you are interested: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4792e387f33155308ddf https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4792e387f33155308ddf
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      I think our package repo is not in your sources.list! To add it: `curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitl... | sudo bash`
      - netcraft 11y ago
        I had to curl that file down and then pipe it in in a separate step, but it looks to be working. Thanks for your help!
        sytse 11y ago
        You're welcome.
      - stephenr 11y ago
        Wow that's not terrifying advice at all. /sarcasm If you expect someone to run their own git & ci server, is it so hard to give them a couple of dot-point instructions: - create a .list file with these two lines: <blah> - add the GPG key for Apt - run aptitude/apt-get update Sure enough, you're already listed on curl|sh (http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com), which also includes a link to the https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/install https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/install page which has a "manual" tab. Even with "manual" selected, you still insist that people should make a http request to your server, to generate a .list file, even though the only variables are local variables, which you send as part of the request anyway: distro ID (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, etc) and release codename (Wheezy, Jessie, etc). The most ominous thing to me is that you send the result of `hostname -f` to your server. Even bigger WHY!?
scrollaway 11y ago
Congratulations GitLab team. I've been really thrilled to see the project evolve and I'm super excited to see this update. And I don't even use GitLab :) @jobvo I remember leaving extremely lengthy UX and feature feedback here on HN a few weeks back - Email followup never happened. I hope you guys considered working on mailing list support in the style of a Google Groups / Discourse UI. It'd go really well with the Mattermost integration (which I'm also really excited to see).
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Thanks! I do still owe you a folllowup! Wanted to push this out first before weaving in new suggestions and feedback. My apologies. You can now reply to notifications, which already gives you some of that functionality. We're interested in expanding this. We'll add a feature that allows you to email GitLab to create a new issue in a future release. Shouldn't be far off, now that we laid the groundwork for receiving email.
  - scrollaway 11y ago
    That sounds like some good groundwork. Do you have plans to expand this to a proper ML system? Eg. I have a project and want to coordinate one list for translators, one list for devs, and one list for user support.
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      Once we'd add "new issue by email", you could do this with a workaround: You can mention groups in GitLab. Create a group translators, devs, etc and then mention them: "@translators can you have a look at this?" Would then create a new issue and notify all members in the @translators group. Would that suffice? How else?
      - scrollaway 11y ago
        > Would that suffice? How else? I think it's a great feature and very useful for smaller projects especially, but it doesn't replace mailing lists for larger ones. In open source projects especially, it's standard procedure to create one or more topical mailing lists with archives. Take a look at the Wine lists for example - active lists with forum mirroring: https://www.winehq.org/forums https://www.winehq.org/forums This is something that really improves some workflows - especially FOSS projects with a lot of outside contributions. Email is super friendly to newcomers to a project, and forums/archives let you get a feel for the general social tone as well as look at older issues matching your own. I don't think you can just replace this with a tracker.
Gedrovits 11y ago
Looks promising. Maybe even will try it out.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Try it on GitLab.com for free (no limits).
  - pavanky 11y ago
    It seems to be down at the moment?
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      It's not at the time of writing. http://status.gitlab.com/ http://status.gitlab.com/
      - OMGWTF 11y ago
        "Tweets by @git_lab" -> "Account suspended"
        haynes 11y ago
        That's a bug in the website. The correct and active account is @gitlabstatus
        sytse 11y ago
        Indeed, we'll update the status page to reflect this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/status-gitlab-com/commit/1d4cf89e7db63be6cda1679c92b4d4eec98c5ea9 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/status-gitlab-com/commit/1d4cf...
- patrickaljord 11y ago
  Shameless plug, if you have composehub installed, you can just do "ch run gitlab" and it will download and run gitlab for you on your machine. You just need docker installed on your machine https://composehub.com/package/gitlab https://composehub.com/package/gitlab
nstart 11y ago
I've been following gitlab for some time now. Both as a product and a company. Not only is it an amazing product, but from everything I've read they've made a really interesting culture. Would actually love to work for the company. Congrats to the team on shipping this. I'll be giving it a whirl soon :)
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Thanks, that's nice to hear. Love to hear your feedback. This is where I shamelessly tell you that we're hiring for almost any position.
  - nstart 11y ago
    Nice! Not sure if you are still looking at the the thread, I know Gitlab allows for fully remote (yep, I've read the manifesto :D ) but would you be ok with someone working from Sri Lanka? Time zone differences being main concern?
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      We'll consider all great people =)
      - sytse 11y ago
        That timezone would be especially great for a service engineer since we offer 24/7 support and don't have people in that region yet :)
    - checkyoursix 11y ago
      I just begun my internship at Gitlab and I am on GMT+3. There are people on GMT-7 and a bunch of other time zones. So I think its okay :)
- nadams 11y ago
  Have you looked at other products?
whitenoice 11y ago
Can we run gitlab 8.0 without CI?
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  You can just not use it. There will be a few links in the UI, but it will not cost you anything. Note that you can still integrate with your current CI.
  - sytse 11y ago
    And the links will mostly be in the settings menu's. In GitLab 8.1 there should be zero links added to dashboard/group/project navigation https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594
  - max_peck 11y ago
    How do we point to an existing CI environment? In 7.14 we used GitLab CI service and pointed it to the Jenkins project URL. With the CI integration it appears those options have been removed.
Keats 11y ago
Looks good! One question though, clicking on any of the files on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/config https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/config takes at least 10s to open, is it because the site is being hammered right now?
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Yes. We went from 3 to 50 c4.4xlarge nodes in the past few months and are working hard to keep up with the demand of the growth.
taesu 11y ago
This patch is a game changer. Wow! I really love gitlab, however one thing: I wish you can view people's activity calendar even if the projects are private.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Good to hear! > I wish you can view people's activity calendar even if the projects are private. That would show you private information, which is not what we want.
  - taesu 11y ago
    maybe, just notification (light green to dark green) to indicate the commits. I just wish to show my potential employeers that I work privately in gitlab instead of github. regardless, this integrated CI inhouse is defiantely something that I really really looked for.
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      Even that would be leaking private information, no matter how minor it seems. Good to hear you like the integration of CI.
      - tw04 11y ago
        So make it an optional feature for people to enable on their own accounts?
      - jamie_ca 11y ago
        Agreed, it's leaking private information. It would be awesome if the user could opt in to that leak. I feel the same way about Github - I wish I'd be able to show my full history (top) on my public profile page (bottom) http://take.ms/qiBMm http://take.ms/qiBMm
  - bigtunacan 11y ago
    I'm going to agree with Taesu here, and elaborate a bit. Some potential employers these days are looking at interviewees commit calendars on GitHub; and this is something I can provide to show I'm a very productive coder. "Go look at my commit history; see I sure do a lot of coding." So I agree with you about keeping the information private, but I think this could be solved by doing something like this. - Public Activity: Display detailed information. Commit number, message, repo. (What you are showing today) - Private Activity; (Username) made X(number) of commits to private repo/s today.
Nickoladze 11y ago
The dashboard doesn't show an activity feed anymore, just a giant list of projects? That's pretty lame.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Click 'Activity' for the Activity feed. We welcome feedback and contributions to improve this further. This first step was necessary to clean up clutter in the UI.
  - Nickoladze 11y ago
    Thanks for the help, was just poking around preferences to see if I could enable it.
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InsideTheBox 11y ago
Nice! At work we use self-hosted GitLab for everything. Now I need a private repo (personal project) to deploy on my VPS, any opinions about GitLab vs Bitbucket for this use case? Speed, stability? I'm probably going to use Fabric this time.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Why Fabric over GitLab?
  - InsideTheBox 11y ago
    I mean GitLab/Bitbucket just for the private git repo. Fabric for tasks, atomic deploy (I think that's the word), etc. I'm only experienced with self-hosted, never used their services. > GitLab.com offers free unlimited (private) repositories and unlimited collaborators, please sign up or in on the right.
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- hackerboos 11y ago
  Gitlab or Bitbucket aren't going to handle deploys for you. You need gitlab-ci with the continuous deployment option. For others: Fabric is a python project similar to Capistrano.
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resca79 11y ago
This is my experience in GitLab application as developer. After my application I received an email like this: The code you linked to is all quite basic, could you give me an example of some more complex Ruby code worked on, so that I can make an assessment of your ability in that regard. There are many developers better that me, but I never say to other developers during an hiring process ' your code is all quite basic', it is not elegant. I have commits in ruby on rails framework but sure there are many developers better than me! But understand under the wood of a complex framework like rails is not very simple, for me :) Anyway I send some part of my last works and that was the response: I have reviewed your application and regret to inform you that it has not been selected for further consideration, because I don't think your Ruby/Rails skill is currently at the level that we require. Yes probably it's sure but maybe 'your skill do not fit with our requirements' or ' we're looking for an more experienced developer' ? I think that in two mails like that, there is a lot of arrogance that not match with open source mentality. P.S. I think that gitlab is a great product, it's just my experience in application process.
- rubiquity 11y ago
  This is not the place to post this.
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- Fuxy 11y ago
  Arrogance or honesty? I frankly prefer this direct response that gives you direct addressable things you can work on improving if you want to re-apply. Your skills may be excellent but if you don't have anything complex to prove it with they can't figure that out.
  - resca79 11y ago
    You're right. And I don't think that my skills are great. But there are many ways to say 'you are not good for this job' that's all
- DouweM 11y ago
finalight 11y ago
time for me to upgrade!!
coder006 11y ago
Any free alternative to GitLab? Gogs seems to be an option but it seems to be missing a very important feature of code review.
- Redoubts 11y ago
  GitLab is already free, in both senses.
  - uxp 11y ago
    At my last job I left last week, we were looking for an alternative to the old GitHub/Jenkins setup, tried Stash/Bamboo for a while, but eventually settled on GitLab and GitLab CI (7.1x, with the Ruby-based CI runners) because the integrations with other services were already so mature. It took minimal customization to our Hubot to recreate our devops scripts and was really more of a drop-in replacement for what our Ruby shop needed. Although we eventually bought an Enterprise Edition license, we were still running the Community Edition (mostly because I left and just ran out of time to migrate), but were hardly lacking anything in the choice to stay on community until other more pressing migrations are dealt with (thanks first-gen Rackspace cloud). If you're looking to centralize your devops infrastructure, I'd highly recommend GitLab over anything else unless you have a specific use case that GitLab isn't trying to solve (CF's BOSH, or a tighter integration with Atlasssian in a JVM shop for example).
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thank you very much for sharing this! By the way, we just made a CF tile for GitLab, we'll announce it later. But it is build with GitLab CI and Bosh. So if you have any questions about that please ask support, we'll be happy to give you some bang for your subscription bucks.
- radioact1ve 11y ago
  I really like phabricator (http://phabricator.org/ http://phabricator.org/) with differential (https://phacility.com/phabricator/differential/ https://phacility.com/phabricator/differential/)
cevn 11y ago
Looks good! One small typo: On the Pricing page https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/, instead of " Next-business day support" it should be "Next business day support".
- sytse 11y ago
  Thanks cevn, fixed with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e23e528066cd8eb41286a359b6fcdec85669287e https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e23e5280...
dieseldeegs 11y ago
Congrats on the release! It looks amazing! We've been using GitLab for a little while now and love all the updates that have been coming out recently. Doing the upgrade now though and have run into an issue with the rake command backup:show_secrets. ("Don't know how to build task...") Any ideas?
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  Thanks! That's nice to hear. Can you create an issue with some more information (such as: what command did you run, what was the exact output, etc)? If you're a subscriber, please email support :)
- langolier 11y ago
  See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2660 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2660 Documentation seems to be ahead of current GitLab release. This failing task will be included in a following patch release, very soon.
uxcn 11y ago
Wow, this looks really nice! Are there any plans to expand the CI? The markup looks mostly job oriented, so I think most of the semantics would seem to need to be captured in scripts. For example, building across multiple operating systems. Unless I'm mistaken, I'd have to have the hosts available via SSH, probably copy a script(s), and then call it, etc...
- sytse 11y ago
  You can already define multiple jobs in .gitlab-ci.yml and use labels to assign them to runners (#debian, #osx etc.). We use GitLab CI to build our Omnibus packages and that is a multiple operating system affair (including Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi 2).
  - uxcn 11y ago
    Thanks, I appreciate the response. I started taking a look through the documentation and the CI looks pretty robust. I might try to set GitLab up at home soon. I currently use hosted travis-ci for personal projects, which is nice since I don't have to worry about infrastructure, but it means there are things that can't be done with it. Generally stuff they haven't anticipated is verboten.
    - sytse 11y ago
      Cool, hope you like GitLab when you try it.
pymzor 11y ago
Awesome. Integrated CI is probably the move wich will make me move from gitHub.
- sytse 11y ago
  Cool! Glad to hear you like the CI integration, we'll continue to improve it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594
sebastianconcpt 11y ago
I've flaslessly updated today. Looks awesome. I'm really grateful for such a good software product. Thanks for GitLab!
- sytse 11y ago
  Glad to hear that, thanks for using GitLab!
ckok 11y ago
Wow nice release, it's come miles since I used it years ago, very cool! The only thing I'm missing at this point to make it perfect is a more advanced issue tracker (coming from Phabricator)
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  We're working on it, among other things. Concrete suggestions more than welcome on feedback.gitlab.com or here.
  - ckok 11y ago
    Our use case might be fairly specific, i don't know how others are using bugtrackers, but this is how and what we use in our bugtracker: - Hooks (getting notified of changes in issues in http scripts) - Api to modify them (couldn't find if gitlab has that), we use hooks, apis and custom fields to create issues from our forum and notify customers when one is closed/reopened. - Custom fields (priority, severity, to store where an issue came from, like from our forum, from support, what the customers name is if any, if it's waiting, on what specific input, if it going to need documentation, and if so, what concerns there are) - Custom open/close status like "Needs spec, specing, docs", close: "spam", "not fixable, testcase error" etc - Sorting by more than 1 thing at a time, like due milestone, priority, severity) - Filtering by pretty much all fields/custom fields like finding issues with specific open or closed states, specific categories, specific assignments - Predefined filter/sorting queries (global/per user) so we'd have an "All issues assigned by me", "All new issues"
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thank you for the suggestions. One thing that is under development is filtering by more than one label https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/989 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/989 Many of the other items make sense as well.
markdog12 11y ago
Updating broke my ci builds, :( edit: following advice in this issue worked for me - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/804 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/804
dman 11y ago
Any chance of getting packages for Ubuntu 15.04? There appears to be an open issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160
- sytse 11y ago
  Latest build should work, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160
  - dman 11y ago
    Thats the same ticket that I linked to and as far as I can see it does not provide any more information about the latest build. Perhaps you meant to include another link in your comment in the ticket?
    - sytse 11y ago
      Sorry, I missed that you also linked to that ticket. Anyway, did you try to install and it failed on a fresh machine? In that case I can reopen the issue.
  - dman 11y ago
    I tried following the instructions here https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ but that doesnt work since there is no vivid package. I did not follow the steps listed here - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst... since the text pretty strongly discourages a build from source. Specifically this line "Since an installation from source is a lot of work and error prone we strongly recommend the fast and reliable Omnibus package installation (deb/rpm)."
    - sytse 11y ago
      Can you try using the package for 14.04?
mrmondo 11y ago
It doesn't look like there is any way to have per-receive hooks anymore: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/26 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/26
ksec 11y ago
I really wish Gitlab could create two entities. Gitlab.org and Gitlab.com Much like how Wordpress is run. Gitlab.com's profits and revenue will be used to fund the continue development of Gitlab.org For now the Gitlab.org part ( Or the open source development of Gitlab ) is fine. But Gitlab.com seems like a after thought. It should runs like Github, where you actually paid for Storage, Bandwidth etc for a price. Rather then the current price model which is for support only. This makes me feel Gitlab.com is more like a showcase of Gitlab, rather then a properly run services. Some will bound to come to me, why dont you buy a VPS and set it yourself? Because i dont want the hassle. Should some day Gitlab close or company policy changes i will know there is always a open sources version where you can host it back on site. It will also means those communities, or organization who refuse to host their code on Github due to lock in reason ( like Ruby ) can switch to Gitlab without ( ideally speaking ) the same hesitation.
- sytse 11y ago
  Thanks for your suggestion. I can assure you that our GitLab.com SaaS service is not an afterthought. It is growing so fast that we do have trouble keeping up with that, but we're hiring more people and things are looking up. BTW We actually used .org and .com in the past for the community and the for-profit sites. We combined everything on .com because that removed a lot of duplication in announcements, information and many other things.

257 points by jobvandervoort 11y ago

Easily the biggest change for GitLab to date. CI is now built-in and it's all easier on the eyes. We also removed the satellites, on which we used to do certain git operations. This frees up space, but also makes merges must more stable and faster. Let us know if you have any questions or comments.

leejo 11y ago
With this release is it necessary to migrate to the built in CI or can we still point at a different gitlab-CI server? We have gitlab running privately in a VPC on AWS but have gitlab-CI running locally (dedicated local server for the manager and runners) so, essentially, merging the two isn't going to be trivial.
- jobvandervoort 11y ago
  No. We wouldn't be able to support and keep development going while supporting two different CI apps. Only the coordinator moves, so in theory you'd be able to use the same runners. It's not a trivial migration, we know. That is why we do this with a major release. We're also continuously improving the documentation for this migration. Our customers can reach out for online support, of course.
  - leejo 11y ago
    Understandable, thanks! Not sure when we will be updating, but will be in touch should we have any tricky issues migrating.
    - jobvandervoort 11y ago
      Great. Consider sending your upgrade plan ahead of time if there is anything tricky. We're happy to check it.
myko 11y ago
This looks awesome! I've been playing with it today and have setup a docker instance for doing Android builds on the same (Linux) machine that I've installed Gitlab on. I'm having trouble setting up Xcode/iOS builds on a Mac Mini over ssh and I don't see any specific documentation on that. Is that something you can point me to?

jsnathan 11y ago

I think I like the menu UI improvements in the screenshots. Those tiny symbols were a major pain for any new user, and it's good to see words next to them now. But is it possible yet to make the project files show up in the default view for projects? Many user interactions with a project don't go beyond browsing the files, and I wish I could enable GH-style default views.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
The text was always there, but is collapsed by choice and on small screens. It's either Activity or Readme now. I don't think it'd be very hard to add Files to that and don't have major problems with it. Consider sending a MR or creating an issue [0] to discuss this further. 0: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
- sytse 11y ago
  I love this idea and created an issue for it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2655 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2655

qznc 11y ago

When will the Sandstorm package be updated? Will it support CI? https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/zx9d3pt0fjh4uqrprjftgpqfwgzp6y2ena6098ug3ctv37uv6kfh https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/zx9d3pt0fjh4uqrprjftgpqfwgzp6y...

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Not up to us, but I'm sure it will. We have an amazing community of organisations, users, contributors that are often very fast adopting our new releases. It will support CI. GitLab CI works with a central coordinator (now inside of GitLab) and external Runners. The Runner can be anything outside of the instance. This makes it easy to configure them to your liking and doesn't slow down you GitLab instance while builds are running. Documentation on Runners: http://doc.gitlab.com/ci/runners/README.html http://doc.gitlab.com/ci/runners/README.html

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danielsamuels 11y ago

The Mattermost preview screenshot is an odd choice - have a read of the conversation.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Got it from the Mattermost Beta1 announcement. Think it's inappropriate?
- danielsamuels 11y ago
  Just seems weird for the conversation to be about how someone refuses to switch to it, that's all. :)
  - jasonlotito 11y ago
    > about how someone refuses to switch to it Keep reading.
it33 11y ago
Mattermost team here. Sorry if the screenshot is confusing. The text of the screenshot was actually written in Slack, and the goal of the screenshot was to demonstrate the Slack Import feature to GitLab Mattermost. On the GitLab Mattermost page (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-mattermost) there was a subtitle describing this, but we could have made it more clear in the screenshot itself.

mtrycz 11y ago

The messaging integration certainly looks really good, we're trying out Let's Chat, but development is kinda slow (and we don't have the time to contribute). How does GitLab CI compare to Jenkins? Will I be able to substitute it for simple and complex projects? Is there a slender version of GitLab for small computers like the RaspberryPi? All of the dependencies kinda hog/slow it down, and I don't really need realtime performance. I've grown fond of the interface (at work), and would like to use it for my hobby projects.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
GitLab CI should be able to replace Jenkins. Obviously, it doesn't have the maturity of Jenkins or the plugin ecosystem, but it's flexible runner system, easy configuration with .gitlab-ci.yml and integration with GitLab make it quite powerful. You can already have multiple, parallel builds, builds on success/failure, trigger builds and thus create pipelines. We don't support build artifacts yet, but you can circumvent this by using something like S3 for output. We'll add this in the future as well. GitLab should run just fine on Raspberry Pi 2. Do you have any data on slow down?
- sytse 11y ago
  To download for the Raspberry Pi 2 just go to the download page and select that option https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
mrmondo 11y ago
We switched to building with Gitlab-CI and haven't looked back. A big bonus over Jenkins is the lack of Java.

transfire 11y ago

"If you runners overload your CI system now both go down" Isn't that a bit worrisome?

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Where does it say that? It should say that they don't both go down! Runners are fully external to GitLab and GitLab CI. This means they will never interfere with GitLab's functioning. You should not host a Runner on a GitLab instance. It was not intended like that and in the documentation we explicitly tell you to not do this.
- transfire 11y ago
  I feel much better about it now. Thanks. I read it under "advantages and disadvantages".
  - haynes 11y ago
    Ahh I know where that came from. The runners push the build results back to the coordinator (which is now included in gitlab). So in theory, if you have a large number of runners and a very large number of concurrent builds, it could slow down gitlab a little bit. But the numbers you need to reach this are pretty high.

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pwpwp 11y ago

The killer feature (for me) would be if GitLab supported the GitHub API (even if just a subset).

jobvandervoort 11y ago
In what way?
- ihsw 11y ago
  GitLab could function (at least somewhat) as a drop-in replacement for GitHub, as existing GitHub API client libraries could point to GitLab instead with minimal/zero modification.
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    Interesting idea. I'm afraid it would cause us to follow their changes, which makes it a brittle strategy that would prevent us from innovating. We prefer people to adopt GitLab itself.
    - pearjuice 11y ago
      You could provide an adapter API which translates Github-like requests to your API. If you want to use specific GitLab API features, developers use the "native" GitLab API.
      - bpicolo 11y ago
        I mean, if anybody really wants that they could easily open source it on their own. : P

netcraft 11y ago

Will it take some time to propagate? Using the omnibus AMI on ubuntu and doing sudo apt-get update / sudo apt-get install gitlab-ce doesn't pull the update.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
It should work! I double checked and upgraded my personal instance and it works here. Did apt-get update complete succesfully? Repo is here for double checking: https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce
- netcraft 11y ago
  It looks like everything is working properly, this is what I get if you are interested: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4792e387f33155308ddf https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4792e387f33155308ddf
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    I think our package repo is not in your sources.list! To add it: `curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitl... | sudo bash`
    - netcraft 11y ago
      I had to curl that file down and then pipe it in in a separate step, but it looks to be working. Thanks for your help!
      - sytse 11y ago
        You're welcome.
    - stephenr 11y ago
      Wow that's not terrifying advice at all. /sarcasm If you expect someone to run their own git & ci server, is it so hard to give them a couple of dot-point instructions: - create a .list file with these two lines: <blah> - add the GPG key for Apt - run aptitude/apt-get update Sure enough, you're already listed on curl|sh (http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com http://curlpipesh.tumblr.com), which also includes a link to the https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/install https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/install page which has a "manual" tab. Even with "manual" selected, you still insist that people should make a http request to your server, to generate a .list file, even though the only variables are local variables, which you send as part of the request anyway: distro ID (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, etc) and release codename (Wheezy, Jessie, etc). The most ominous thing to me is that you send the result of `hostname -f` to your server. Even bigger WHY!?

scrollaway 11y ago

Congratulations GitLab team. I've been really thrilled to see the project evolve and I'm super excited to see this update. And I don't even use GitLab :) @jobvo I remember leaving extremely lengthy UX and feature feedback here on HN a few weeks back - Email followup never happened. I hope you guys considered working on mailing list support in the style of a Google Groups / Discourse UI. It'd go really well with the Mattermost integration (which I'm also really excited to see).

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Thanks! I do still owe you a folllowup! Wanted to push this out first before weaving in new suggestions and feedback. My apologies. You can now reply to notifications, which already gives you some of that functionality. We're interested in expanding this. We'll add a feature that allows you to email GitLab to create a new issue in a future release. Shouldn't be far off, now that we laid the groundwork for receiving email.
- scrollaway 11y ago
  That sounds like some good groundwork. Do you have plans to expand this to a proper ML system? Eg. I have a project and want to coordinate one list for translators, one list for devs, and one list for user support.
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    Once we'd add "new issue by email", you could do this with a workaround: You can mention groups in GitLab. Create a group translators, devs, etc and then mention them: "@translators can you have a look at this?" Would then create a new issue and notify all members in the @translators group. Would that suffice? How else?
    - scrollaway 11y ago
      > Would that suffice? How else? I think it's a great feature and very useful for smaller projects especially, but it doesn't replace mailing lists for larger ones. In open source projects especially, it's standard procedure to create one or more topical mailing lists with archives. Take a look at the Wine lists for example - active lists with forum mirroring: https://www.winehq.org/forums https://www.winehq.org/forums This is something that really improves some workflows - especially FOSS projects with a lot of outside contributions. Email is super friendly to newcomers to a project, and forums/archives let you get a feel for the general social tone as well as look at older issues matching your own. I don't think you can just replace this with a tracker.

Gedrovits 11y ago

Looks promising. Maybe even will try it out.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Try it on GitLab.com for free (no limits).
- pavanky 11y ago
  It seems to be down at the moment?
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    It's not at the time of writing. http://status.gitlab.com/ http://status.gitlab.com/
    - OMGWTF 11y ago
      "Tweets by @git_lab" -> "Account suspended"
      - haynes 11y ago
        That's a bug in the website. The correct and active account is @gitlabstatus
        sytse 11y ago
        Indeed, we'll update the status page to reflect this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/status-gitlab-com/commit/1d4cf89e7db63be6cda1679c92b4d4eec98c5ea9 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/status-gitlab-com/commit/1d4cf...
patrickaljord 11y ago
Shameless plug, if you have composehub installed, you can just do "ch run gitlab" and it will download and run gitlab for you on your machine. You just need docker installed on your machine https://composehub.com/package/gitlab https://composehub.com/package/gitlab

nstart 11y ago

I've been following gitlab for some time now. Both as a product and a company. Not only is it an amazing product, but from everything I've read they've made a really interesting culture. Would actually love to work for the company. Congrats to the team on shipping this. I'll be giving it a whirl soon :)

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Thanks, that's nice to hear. Love to hear your feedback. This is where I shamelessly tell you that we're hiring for almost any position.
- nstart 11y ago
  Nice! Not sure if you are still looking at the the thread, I know Gitlab allows for fully remote (yep, I've read the manifesto :D ) but would you be ok with someone working from Sri Lanka? Time zone differences being main concern?
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    We'll consider all great people =)
    - sytse 11y ago
      That timezone would be especially great for a service engineer since we offer 24/7 support and don't have people in that region yet :)
  - checkyoursix 11y ago
    I just begun my internship at Gitlab and I am on GMT+3. There are people on GMT-7 and a bunch of other time zones. So I think its okay :)
nadams 11y ago
Have you looked at other products?

whitenoice 11y ago

Can we run gitlab 8.0 without CI?

jobvandervoort 11y ago
You can just not use it. There will be a few links in the UI, but it will not cost you anything. Note that you can still integrate with your current CI.
- sytse 11y ago
  And the links will mostly be in the settings menu's. In GitLab 8.1 there should be zero links added to dashboard/group/project navigation https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594
- max_peck 11y ago
  How do we point to an existing CI environment? In 7.14 we used GitLab CI service and pointed it to the Jenkins project URL. With the CI integration it appears those options have been removed.

Keats 11y ago

Looks good! One question though, clicking on any of the files on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/config https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master/config takes at least 10s to open, is it because the site is being hammered right now?

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Yes. We went from 3 to 50 c4.4xlarge nodes in the past few months and are working hard to keep up with the demand of the growth.

taesu 11y ago

This patch is a game changer. Wow! I really love gitlab, however one thing: I wish you can view people's activity calendar even if the projects are private.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Good to hear! > I wish you can view people's activity calendar even if the projects are private. That would show you private information, which is not what we want.
- taesu 11y ago
  maybe, just notification (light green to dark green) to indicate the commits. I just wish to show my potential employeers that I work privately in gitlab instead of github. regardless, this integrated CI inhouse is defiantely something that I really really looked for.
  - jobvandervoort 11y ago
    Even that would be leaking private information, no matter how minor it seems. Good to hear you like the integration of CI.
    - tw04 11y ago
      So make it an optional feature for people to enable on their own accounts?
    - jamie_ca 11y ago
      Agreed, it's leaking private information. It would be awesome if the user could opt in to that leak. I feel the same way about Github - I wish I'd be able to show my full history (top) on my public profile page (bottom) http://take.ms/qiBMm http://take.ms/qiBMm
- bigtunacan 11y ago
  I'm going to agree with Taesu here, and elaborate a bit. Some potential employers these days are looking at interviewees commit calendars on GitHub; and this is something I can provide to show I'm a very productive coder. "Go look at my commit history; see I sure do a lot of coding." So I agree with you about keeping the information private, but I think this could be solved by doing something like this. - Public Activity: Display detailed information. Commit number, message, repo. (What you are showing today) - Private Activity; (Username) made X(number) of commits to private repo/s today.

Nickoladze 11y ago

The dashboard doesn't show an activity feed anymore, just a giant list of projects? That's pretty lame.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Click 'Activity' for the Activity feed. We welcome feedback and contributions to improve this further. This first step was necessary to clean up clutter in the UI.
- Nickoladze 11y ago
  Thanks for the help, was just poking around preferences to see if I could enable it.

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InsideTheBox 11y ago

Nice! At work we use self-hosted GitLab for everything. Now I need a private repo (personal project) to deploy on my VPS, any opinions about GitLab vs Bitbucket for this use case? Speed, stability? I'm probably going to use Fabric this time.

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Why Fabric over GitLab?
- InsideTheBox 11y ago
  I mean GitLab/Bitbucket just for the private git repo. Fabric for tasks, atomic deploy (I think that's the word), etc. I'm only experienced with self-hosted, never used their services. > GitLab.com offers free unlimited (private) repositories and unlimited collaborators, please sign up or in on the right.
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hackerboos 11y ago
Gitlab or Bitbucket aren't going to handle deploys for you. You need gitlab-ci with the continuous deployment option. For others: Fabric is a python project similar to Capistrano.

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resca79 11y ago

This is my experience in GitLab application as developer. After my application I received an email like this: The code you linked to is all quite basic, could you give me an example of some more complex Ruby code worked on, so that I can make an assessment of your ability in that regard. There are many developers better that me, but I never say to other developers during an hiring process ' your code is all quite basic', it is not elegant. I have commits in ruby on rails framework but sure there are many developers better than me! But understand under the wood of a complex framework like rails is not very simple, for me :) Anyway I send some part of my last works and that was the response: I have reviewed your application and regret to inform you that it has not been selected for further consideration, because I don't think your Ruby/Rails skill is currently at the level that we require. Yes probably it's sure but maybe 'your skill do not fit with our requirements' or ' we're looking for an more experienced developer' ? I think that in two mails like that, there is a lot of arrogance that not match with open source mentality. P.S. I think that gitlab is a great product, it's just my experience in application process.

rubiquity 11y ago
This is not the place to post this.
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Fuxy 11y ago
Arrogance or honesty? I frankly prefer this direct response that gives you direct addressable things you can work on improving if you want to re-apply. Your skills may be excellent but if you don't have anything complex to prove it with they can't figure that out.
- resca79 11y ago
  You're right. And I don't think that my skills are great. But there are many ways to say 'you are not good for this job' that's all
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finalight 11y ago

time for me to upgrade!!

coder006 11y ago

Any free alternative to GitLab? Gogs seems to be an option but it seems to be missing a very important feature of code review.

Redoubts 11y ago
GitLab is already free, in both senses.
- uxp 11y ago
  At my last job I left last week, we were looking for an alternative to the old GitHub/Jenkins setup, tried Stash/Bamboo for a while, but eventually settled on GitLab and GitLab CI (7.1x, with the Ruby-based CI runners) because the integrations with other services were already so mature. It took minimal customization to our Hubot to recreate our devops scripts and was really more of a drop-in replacement for what our Ruby shop needed. Although we eventually bought an Enterprise Edition license, we were still running the Community Edition (mostly because I left and just ran out of time to migrate), but were hardly lacking anything in the choice to stay on community until other more pressing migrations are dealt with (thanks first-gen Rackspace cloud). If you're looking to centralize your devops infrastructure, I'd highly recommend GitLab over anything else unless you have a specific use case that GitLab isn't trying to solve (CF's BOSH, or a tighter integration with Atlasssian in a JVM shop for example).
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thank you very much for sharing this! By the way, we just made a CF tile for GitLab, we'll announce it later. But it is build with GitLab CI and Bosh. So if you have any questions about that please ask support, we'll be happy to give you some bang for your subscription bucks.
radioact1ve 11y ago
I really like phabricator (http://phabricator.org/ http://phabricator.org/) with differential (https://phacility.com/phabricator/differential/ https://phacility.com/phabricator/differential/)

cevn 11y ago

Looks good! One small typo: On the Pricing page https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/, instead of " Next-business day support" it should be "Next business day support".

sytse 11y ago
Thanks cevn, fixed with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e23e528066cd8eb41286a359b6fcdec85669287e https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/e23e5280...

dieseldeegs 11y ago

Congrats on the release! It looks amazing! We've been using GitLab for a little while now and love all the updates that have been coming out recently. Doing the upgrade now though and have run into an issue with the rake command backup:show_secrets. ("Don't know how to build task...") Any ideas?

jobvandervoort 11y ago
Thanks! That's nice to hear. Can you create an issue with some more information (such as: what command did you run, what was the exact output, etc)? If you're a subscriber, please email support :)
langolier 11y ago
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2660 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2660 Documentation seems to be ahead of current GitLab release. This failing task will be included in a following patch release, very soon.

uxcn 11y ago

Wow, this looks really nice! Are there any plans to expand the CI? The markup looks mostly job oriented, so I think most of the semantics would seem to need to be captured in scripts. For example, building across multiple operating systems. Unless I'm mistaken, I'd have to have the hosts available via SSH, probably copy a script(s), and then call it, etc...

sytse 11y ago
You can already define multiple jobs in .gitlab-ci.yml and use labels to assign them to runners (#debian, #osx etc.). We use GitLab CI to build our Omnibus packages and that is a multiple operating system affair (including Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi 2).
- uxcn 11y ago
  Thanks, I appreciate the response. I started taking a look through the documentation and the CI looks pretty robust. I might try to set GitLab up at home soon. I currently use hosted travis-ci for personal projects, which is nice since I don't have to worry about infrastructure, but it means there are things that can't be done with it. Generally stuff they haven't anticipated is verboten.
  - sytse 11y ago
    Cool, hope you like GitLab when you try it.

pymzor 11y ago

Awesome. Integrated CI is probably the move wich will make me move from gitHub.

sytse 11y ago
Cool! Glad to hear you like the CI integration, we'll continue to improve it https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2594

sebastianconcpt 11y ago

I've flaslessly updated today. Looks awesome. I'm really grateful for such a good software product. Thanks for GitLab!

sytse 11y ago
Glad to hear that, thanks for using GitLab!

ckok 11y ago

Wow nice release, it's come miles since I used it years ago, very cool! The only thing I'm missing at this point to make it perfect is a more advanced issue tracker (coming from Phabricator)

jobvandervoort 11y ago
We're working on it, among other things. Concrete suggestions more than welcome on feedback.gitlab.com or here.
- ckok 11y ago
  Our use case might be fairly specific, i don't know how others are using bugtrackers, but this is how and what we use in our bugtracker: - Hooks (getting notified of changes in issues in http scripts) - Api to modify them (couldn't find if gitlab has that), we use hooks, apis and custom fields to create issues from our forum and notify customers when one is closed/reopened. - Custom fields (priority, severity, to store where an issue came from, like from our forum, from support, what the customers name is if any, if it's waiting, on what specific input, if it going to need documentation, and if so, what concerns there are) - Custom open/close status like "Needs spec, specing, docs", close: "spam", "not fixable, testcase error" etc - Sorting by more than 1 thing at a time, like due milestone, priority, severity) - Filtering by pretty much all fields/custom fields like finding issues with specific open or closed states, specific categories, specific assignments - Predefined filter/sorting queries (global/per user) so we'd have an "All issues assigned by me", "All new issues"
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thank you for the suggestions. One thing that is under development is filtering by more than one label https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/989 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/989 Many of the other items make sense as well.

markdog12 11y ago

Updating broke my ci builds, :( edit: following advice in this issue worked for me - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/804 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/issues/804

dman 11y ago

Any chance of getting packages for Ubuntu 15.04? There appears to be an open issue at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160

sytse 11y ago
Latest build should work, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2160
- dman 11y ago
  Thats the same ticket that I linked to and as far as I can see it does not provide any more information about the latest build. Perhaps you meant to include another link in your comment in the ticket?
  - sytse 11y ago
    Sorry, I missed that you also linked to that ticket. Anyway, did you try to install and it failed on a fresh machine? In that case I can reopen the issue.
- dman 11y ago
  I tried following the instructions here https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ but that doesnt work since there is no vivid package. I did not follow the steps listed here - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst... since the text pretty strongly discourages a build from source. Specifically this line "Since an installation from source is a lot of work and error prone we strongly recommend the fast and reliable Omnibus package installation (deb/rpm)."
  - sytse 11y ago
    Can you try using the package for 14.04?

mrmondo 11y ago

It doesn't look like there is any way to have per-receive hooks anymore: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/26 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/26

ksec 11y ago

I really wish Gitlab could create two entities. Gitlab.org and Gitlab.com Much like how Wordpress is run. Gitlab.com's profits and revenue will be used to fund the continue development of Gitlab.org For now the Gitlab.org part ( Or the open source development of Gitlab ) is fine. But Gitlab.com seems like a after thought. It should runs like Github, where you actually paid for Storage, Bandwidth etc for a price. Rather then the current price model which is for support only. This makes me feel Gitlab.com is more like a showcase of Gitlab, rather then a properly run services. Some will bound to come to me, why dont you buy a VPS and set it yourself? Because i dont want the hassle. Should some day Gitlab close or company policy changes i will know there is always a open sources version where you can host it back on site. It will also means those communities, or organization who refuse to host their code on Github due to lock in reason ( like Ruby ) can switch to Gitlab without ( ideally speaking ) the same hesitation.

sytse 11y ago
Thanks for your suggestion. I can assure you that our GitLab.com SaaS service is not an afterthought. It is growing so fast that we do have trouble keeping up with that, but we're hiring more people and things are looking up. BTW We actually used .org and .com in the past for the community and the for-profit sites. We combined everything on .com because that removed a lot of duplication in announcements, information and many other things.