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> Am I the only one who thinks gitlab is a poor product? I completely agree. I only use it because it has a CI for private projects for free but that's literal

by Keats 9y ago

> Am I the only one who thinks gitlab is a poor product? I completely agree. I only use it because it has a CI for private projects for free but that's literally the only reason. The UX is not great (Github PRs are light years ahead of Gitlab merge requests), the overall UI is confusing and is hard to find stuff you want to, it is still extremely slow and lots of downtimes. They have some good ideas but the execution is usually not great. The only 2 selling points are the free CI and the fact that is open-source but overall I think Gitlab wouldn't be a hard competitor to beat for newcomers.

dimitrieh 9y ago
> Github PRs are light years ahead of Gitlab merge requests I would love to know more about your thoughts on this statement ;) in order to get to actionable issues on which we can improve!
- Keats 9y ago
  Github pros: - Can see new stuff that happened since the last time I was on the PR - Review mode - Faster - Can view rendered file (like .md) without leaving the page - Commits visible on the main tab And for a more subjective one: the gitlab feels extremely crowded and a general lack of polish. Take the right sidebar on a merge request for examples, they are icons since it is hidden by default even in full screen. Hovering on the + shows a Add Todo dialog but hovering over any other icon does nothing. I had to click to see what the watch and stopwatch were. In general, I wasn't able to guess what any of the icons were, except for the labels icon. On the other hand, Github doesn't use icons: just a bunch of text which is imo nicer in terms of design and more user friendly.
  - dimitrieh 9y ago
    thanks! Will keep these things in mind!
  - cmatija 9y ago
    Hiya, Thanks for leaving some feedback. * Speed GNOME is looking to self-host their own GitLab CE instance. We understand that GitLab.com might have some performance issues. This is specific to our hosted GitLab instance due to its scale. A self-hosted instance on a much smaller scale is much much faster. Also, we're always looking to improve GitLab performance - check out issues labeled "performance" in the GitLab CE repo [1] as well as issues in the infrastructure repo which are about .com specifically [2] * Commits visible on the main tab A list of commits is just a click away in the MR view, in the "Commits" tab. Also commits that are added are also displayed in the main tab. * Can see new stuff that happened The main MR tab lists the actions that happened related to it in a chronological order, from first to last. You can always look at that and see any new MR changes * Sidebar The sidebar is expanded by default on larger screen sizes and collapsed on smaller ones to preserve screen real estate for the MR itself. I opened an issue about the icons themselves, see [3] * View rendered files in MR We have renderers for all kinds of files. But in a MR, we diff the MD source files. If we rendered them, diffing them would be almost impossible. I opened an issue about having toggle-able rendering in the changes tab in MRs. Feel free to chime in in [4] * Review mode Could you explain this in a bit more detail? Maybe we could open a feature proposal for this functionality. Hopefully I addressed all your concerns, feel free to add anything or dive into any of the issues, or even contact me personally. [1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf8=&state=opened&label_name[]=performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf... [2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=all&utf8=&state=opened&label_name[]=performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al... [3] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32413 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32413 [4] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32414 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32414

by Keats 9y ago

dimitrieh 9y ago

> Github PRs are light years ahead of Gitlab merge requests I would love to know more about your thoughts on this statement ;) in order to get to actionable issues on which we can improve!

Keats 9y ago
Github pros: - Can see new stuff that happened since the last time I was on the PR - Review mode - Faster - Can view rendered file (like .md) without leaving the page - Commits visible on the main tab And for a more subjective one: the gitlab feels extremely crowded and a general lack of polish. Take the right sidebar on a merge request for examples, they are icons since it is hidden by default even in full screen. Hovering on the + shows a Add Todo dialog but hovering over any other icon does nothing. I had to click to see what the watch and stopwatch were. In general, I wasn't able to guess what any of the icons were, except for the labels icon. On the other hand, Github doesn't use icons: just a bunch of text which is imo nicer in terms of design and more user friendly.
- dimitrieh 9y ago
  thanks! Will keep these things in mind!
- cmatija 9y ago
  Hiya, Thanks for leaving some feedback. * Speed GNOME is looking to self-host their own GitLab CE instance. We understand that GitLab.com might have some performance issues. This is specific to our hosted GitLab instance due to its scale. A self-hosted instance on a much smaller scale is much much faster. Also, we're always looking to improve GitLab performance - check out issues labeled "performance" in the GitLab CE repo [1] as well as issues in the infrastructure repo which are about .com specifically [2] * Commits visible on the main tab A list of commits is just a click away in the MR view, in the "Commits" tab. Also commits that are added are also displayed in the main tab. * Can see new stuff that happened The main MR tab lists the actions that happened related to it in a chronological order, from first to last. You can always look at that and see any new MR changes * Sidebar The sidebar is expanded by default on larger screen sizes and collapsed on smaller ones to preserve screen real estate for the MR itself. I opened an issue about the icons themselves, see [3] * View rendered files in MR We have renderers for all kinds of files. But in a MR, we diff the MD source files. If we rendered them, diffing them would be almost impossible. I opened an issue about having toggle-able rendering in the changes tab in MRs. Feel free to chime in in [4] * Review mode Could you explain this in a bit more detail? Maybe we could open a feature proposal for this functionality. Hopefully I addressed all your concerns, feel free to add anything or dive into any of the issues, or even contact me personally. [1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf8=&state=opened&label_name[]=performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf... [2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=all&utf8=&state=opened&label_name[]=performance https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al... [3] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32413 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32413 [4] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32414 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/32414