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Way easier said than done :) As someone who has been doing product development their entire career, I have found there to be an economy of focus in a software

Way easier said than done :) As someone who has been doing product development their entire career, I have found there to be an economy of focus in a software company when it comes to product development. I think it's a great vision for Gitlab but it's risky because it splits their focus into like 6 beams. The major players in the market (Atlassian, GitHub) already have this vision and they are there already pretty much. The market wants flexibility in their tools in spite of what people on HN tell you. Atlassian has tools for every lifecycle stage but people still mix and match with other tools. Github is missing a few of these stages but I'm sure they are hard at work filling in the blanks. I know people who use GitHub and JIRA together even though GitHub has it's own issue tracker.

sytse 10y ago
I agree it would be risky to go on this path. So when Dmitriy wanted to make CI years ago I told him to keep the main thing the main thing. Why reinvent the CI wheel, our efforts were better spent making our Jenkins integration better. But I didn't stop him. And what I learned was that we were able to do CI and make it a better product that what was on the market. That was counterintuitive for me. But we've since seen the benefits of integrating CI, CD, issue boards, and a docker container registry. We still have lots of work to do integrating Mattermost, Koding, Cog, Prometheus. But we're convinced we can do a better job. If you look at what we shipped last month I hope you can see the rate of improvement https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ And to make sure we have enough capacity going forward we hire remotely, use open source collaboration processes, and just raised more capital.
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sytse 10y ago

I agree it would be risky to go on this path. So when Dmitriy wanted to make CI years ago I told him to keep the main thing the main thing. Why reinvent the CI wheel, our efforts were better spent making our Jenkins integration better. But I didn't stop him. And what I learned was that we were able to do CI and make it a better product that what was on the market. That was counterintuitive for me. But we've since seen the benefits of integrating CI, CD, issue boards, and a docker container registry. We still have lots of work to do integrating Mattermost, Koding, Cog, Prometheus. But we're convinced we can do a better job. If you look at what we shipped last month I hope you can see the rate of improvement https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ And to make sure we have enough capacity going forward we hire remotely, use open source collaboration processes, and just raised more capital.

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