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Thanks for the thinking about how to make this sustainable. Some thoughts of me: 1. RedHat does this business model well but it means not having packages for t
by sytse 10y ago
Thanks for the thinking about how to make this sustainable. Some thoughts of me:
1. RedHat does this business model well but it means not having packages for the open source version. Otherwise people will just start a mirror. We want to have great packages for the open source version.
2. We offer this with GitHost.io but it is not very profitable.
3. We try to make sure all management is automated for all our versions.
4. We still offer paying for features at https://about.gitlab.com/development/ https://about.gitlab.com/development/ There is little interest since if you wait the feature will likely be made at some point anyway. A bit of a bystander effect I think. Also, it is a lot of work to give correct quotes and many didn't get an order because of purchasing processes. Many companies have preferred vendors for software development.
We want the open source version to be easy to use and easy to maintain. So it is not possible for us to charge for that.
- robmv 10y agoWell, we can call CentOS an opensource packaged version of RHEL (binaries not only SRPMS) by Red Hat. CentOS is now (two years iirc) a Red Hat project I love GitLab, and I hope that some day there will be only one version. as Red Hat saw the light supporting CentOS, maybe GitLab could be able someday to see that enterprises will still pay with only one version
- sytse 10y agoI think RedHat lost the server market to Ubuntu by not offering an open source package (server). We want GitLab users to have a great install and upgrade experience with the open source version. The tradeoff is that the open source version won't contain all the features. For more background please see about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship