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Gitlab is so featureful it's insane to me that it doesn't get more press, so I figured I'd create some. I don't work for Gitlab or anything but I certainly love
by hardwaresofton 9y ago
Gitlab is so featureful it's insane to me that it doesn't get more press, so I figured I'd create some. I don't work for Gitlab or anything but I certainly love the tool they work on, and the attitudes they take towards lots of things.
Here's a quick list of features that make me think you should be using Gitlab at your org:
1. Fully self-hostable, actually F/OSS
2. Gitlab registry included for free
3. Private repos free
4. CI runners usable for free, integrated easily into your project
5. Auto deploy (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/topics/autodevops/index.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/topics/autodevops/index.html), where they're moving in the future is awesome as well, the whole of Auto DevOps (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/topics/autodevops/index.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/topics/autodevops/index.html)
6. Issue boards (Gitlab had this first)
7. Wiki included
8. Repo metrics
9. Cycle Analytics (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/cycle_analytics.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/cycle_analytics.html)
Some of these things might also be in Github now, but I don't think they all are just yet.
Here are the most common complaints about Gitlab:
1. Slowness (this is normally because people use Gitlab.com and judge based on that. It's absolutely a fact that Gitlab.com is not as fast as Github.com)
2. Badly designed UI/navigation (they've just gone through a push to fix these things, and I love the new interface)
3. Doing too much (can't argue with this of course, but I don't particularly care that something does a lot of things until it starts doing things I care about really badly)
- sytse 9y agoThanks for the love! We're working on making GitLab.com faster and more available, it is already a lot faster than a year ago, but still lots of work to do.