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Actually that's least exciting release I saw for some time. Is it just me or are the changes rather minor for non-EE users this month?

by d33 10y ago

josh64 10y ago
There are still a couple of nice CE changes there: * Review apps being complete - https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/22/introducing-review-apps/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/22/introducing-review-apps/ * Prevent merge until Review is done - https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_discussion_resolution.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests/merge... I guess it does seem less exciting considering the huge changes they've made this year. 8.15 will be interesting considering it is meant to close off their "Idea to Production" workflow. edit: changed the merge request URL from the EE one to the CE one even though the content is basically the same.
- mads 10y ago
  > Review apps being complete Thats amazing. I was just thinking this morning on the bus that I needed to build something like this myself for our setup.
  - sytse 10y ago
    Awesome! Glad we got the timing right for you. Once you have them set up it is hard to go back to living without them.
- merb 10y ago
  A lot of people don't need review apps. My company is too damn small to have a Kubernetes/Openshift Cluster/Machines running just idling and waiting till a review app needs to spun up. Also we are using staging pretty heavily and do version based deployments/installers, where it's really not necessary. We actually release more often than Gitlab tough, one non bug fix version every two weeks. For me review apps would've been the EE feature and time tracking the non EE one, especially since time tracking is also the one that many smaller companies might use. I Also think that they should add a way to have -no-ff merges for CE (not all options but -no-ff would be helpful), but actually that's a EE only feature. Well we switched from Stash/BitBucket to it and are still happy since we screwed JIRA also and it's way easier to maintain. I mean JIRA/Bitbucket still have no apt/rpm repository?! Still wondering what happens if gitlab upgrades PostgreSQL, if that will happen automatically...
  - robinhood 10y ago
    When GitLab upgrades PostgreSQL, it will require a manual step (typing a command through the `gitlab-ctl`) as it involves downtime and can take quite some time depending on how big the database is.
  - deleted 10y ago
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wyldfire 10y ago
At some point (now? before?) they'll start to hit feature parity with the market leader (github, presumably) and the releases are bound to be significantly less exciting.
- sytse 10y ago
  We don't plan to stop at feature parity. I think a good example of our vision is shown in https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/14/idea-to-production/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/14/idea-to-production/
  - thewhitetulip 10y ago
    I have found few things to be bad about gitlab, and I am serious, not trolling: 1. When I am already logged in gitlab and I go to gitlab.com, it shows me the landing page and doesn't automatically show me the dashboard. 2. I do not get notifications from the projects that I follow, I get only the "todos". Either this, or I haven't figured out the notification part. 3.The UI is good, but it can have some improvements. I can not put my finger on it, but Github's UI/UX feels more approachable than Gitlab's. Also, on the landing page itself if you can have a login form like Facebook does, it'll be a small but great change.
    - sytse 10y ago
      Thanks for the concrete feedback. 1. This shouldn't happen. Can you please create an issue? 2. What things would you like to see? We have an email on push that we can maybe extend. 3. We just hired a UX researcher but we're open to suggestions. 4. Should be solved with 1
      - thewhitetulip 10y ago
        1. where to raise issue? 2. I want to get notifications as in Facebook/Quora notifications or even github's would be fine 3.If you give me your email, I'll use gitlab and email you about concrete things, I can't yet put a finger to my abstract thoughts. 4. I want a login page in the home page itself, I do not want to be redirected to /login. This is not related to #1

Actually that's least exciting release I saw for some time. Is it just me or are the changes rather minor for non-EE users this month?

by d33 10y ago

Actually that's least exciting release I saw for some time. Is it just me or are the changes rather minor for non-EE users this month?

josh64 10y ago

There are still a couple of nice CE changes there: * Review apps being complete - https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/22/introducing-review-apps/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/22/introducing-review-apps/ * Prevent merge until Review is done - https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_discussion_resolution.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests/merge... I guess it does seem less exciting considering the huge changes they've made this year. 8.15 will be interesting considering it is meant to close off their "Idea to Production" workflow. edit: changed the merge request URL from the EE one to the CE one even though the content is basically the same.

mads 10y ago
> Review apps being complete Thats amazing. I was just thinking this morning on the bus that I needed to build something like this myself for our setup.
- sytse 10y ago
  Awesome! Glad we got the timing right for you. Once you have them set up it is hard to go back to living without them.
merb 10y ago
A lot of people don't need review apps. My company is too damn small to have a Kubernetes/Openshift Cluster/Machines running just idling and waiting till a review app needs to spun up. Also we are using staging pretty heavily and do version based deployments/installers, where it's really not necessary. We actually release more often than Gitlab tough, one non bug fix version every two weeks. For me review apps would've been the EE feature and time tracking the non EE one, especially since time tracking is also the one that many smaller companies might use. I Also think that they should add a way to have -no-ff merges for CE (not all options but -no-ff would be helpful), but actually that's a EE only feature. Well we switched from Stash/BitBucket to it and are still happy since we screwed JIRA also and it's way easier to maintain. I mean JIRA/Bitbucket still have no apt/rpm repository?! Still wondering what happens if gitlab upgrades PostgreSQL, if that will happen automatically...
- robinhood 10y ago
  When GitLab upgrades PostgreSQL, it will require a manual step (typing a command through the `gitlab-ctl`) as it involves downtime and can take quite some time depending on how big the database is.
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]

wyldfire 10y ago

At some point (now? before?) they'll start to hit feature parity with the market leader (github, presumably) and the releases are bound to be significantly less exciting.

sytse 10y ago
We don't plan to stop at feature parity. I think a good example of our vision is shown in https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/14/idea-to-production/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/14/idea-to-production/
- thewhitetulip 10y ago
  I have found few things to be bad about gitlab, and I am serious, not trolling: 1. When I am already logged in gitlab and I go to gitlab.com, it shows me the landing page and doesn't automatically show me the dashboard. 2. I do not get notifications from the projects that I follow, I get only the "todos". Either this, or I haven't figured out the notification part. 3.The UI is good, but it can have some improvements. I can not put my finger on it, but Github's UI/UX feels more approachable than Gitlab's. Also, on the landing page itself if you can have a login form like Facebook does, it'll be a small but great change.
  - sytse 10y ago
    Thanks for the concrete feedback. 1. This shouldn't happen. Can you please create an issue? 2. What things would you like to see? We have an email on push that we can maybe extend. 3. We just hired a UX researcher but we're open to suggestions. 4. Should be solved with 1
    - thewhitetulip 10y ago
      1. where to raise issue? 2. I want to get notifications as in Facebook/Quora notifications or even github's would be fine 3.If you give me your email, I'll use gitlab and email you about concrete things, I can't yet put a finger to my abstract thoughts. 4. I want a login page in the home page itself, I do not want to be redirected to /login. This is not related to #1