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Every time I see a post from Gitlab, I worry for them. I haven't used gitlab but have checked it out a few times. On the other hand I use github regularly. But
by winteriscoming 10y ago
Every time I see a post from Gitlab, I worry for them. I haven't used gitlab but have checked it out a few times. On the other hand I use github regularly. But this isn't about github vs gitlab.
Instead this is about gitlab's definition or rather level of transparency and something they seem to be proud of and are even being appreciated very often here at HN. I feel that gitlab have taken the transparency thing to an extreme, to the extent that they even named the engineer that caused a recent downtime. I don't think it matters that the engineer didnt object to it. Then there are posts about why they are choosing some UI framework and why they are moving away from cloud and now this. It's fine to be transparent but in a professional world it's also important to be private about certain things. Trying to please people by being transparent for the sake of it will take a toll on the team eventually. It's much more effective to just get things done instead of constantly being transparent to the external crowd, about every single detail