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Just curious, what specifically you mean by "surpass Github"? I mean this with no snarky intention. I'm just wondering what tasks Gitlab doesn't perform as well

Just curious, what specifically you mean by "surpass Github"? I mean this with no snarky intention. I'm just wondering what tasks Gitlab doesn't perform as well as Github for you; unless you were referring to the social awareness that Github has.

whitepoplar 8y ago
I mean surpass GitHub in both usage and revenue.
- TheRealPomax 8y ago
  Revenue? GitHub has been operating at a loss right up to the moment that MS bought them for over a thousand times what they had to start making annually to not run a loss.
  - whitepoplar 8y ago
    You're confusing revenue with profit.
    - TheRealPomax 8y ago
      No, I'm not. Both are business health indicators, with revenue being the more important one, since you can be sustainable without being profitable. However, when you operation on a _loss_ your revenue is not sufficient, and Github has been running a loss right up to when MS bought them. While having no profit does not imply you have insufficient revenue, running your business at a loss absolutely does. So: wanting another company in the same space to have the same kind of revenue profile is extremely questionable; you want them to have a sustainable revenue model, and the ideally on top of that, be profitable.
kasparsklavins 8y ago
Performance and stability? Still yet to have a day where I havent had a 500 error on gitlab cloud.
- kokey 8y ago
  GitLab is pretty impressive with the rate of features that gets shipped, but it does come at the cost of things not always been stable even though I think it's pretty impressive how stable it is considering the volume of changes being shipped. That said I found a way to have it stable is to run GitLab on your own systems using their omnibus installer, and then upgrade around the 20th of each month before the next big release so you upgrade to a version with most of the patch versions instead of the latest bigger version.
- matteeyah 8y ago
  Thanks for bringing this up. We're actively working on making sure GitLab.com is ready for mission-critical workloads. You can see a list of ongoing efforts in [1]. However, we're not quite there yet. At the moment, for mission-critical workloads we recommend self-hosting. [1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=availability https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...

whitepoplar 8y ago

I mean surpass GitHub in both usage and revenue.

TheRealPomax 8y ago
Revenue? GitHub has been operating at a loss right up to the moment that MS bought them for over a thousand times what they had to start making annually to not run a loss.
- whitepoplar 8y ago
  You're confusing revenue with profit.
  - TheRealPomax 8y ago
    No, I'm not. Both are business health indicators, with revenue being the more important one, since you can be sustainable without being profitable. However, when you operation on a _loss_ your revenue is not sufficient, and Github has been running a loss right up to when MS bought them. While having no profit does not imply you have insufficient revenue, running your business at a loss absolutely does. So: wanting another company in the same space to have the same kind of revenue profile is extremely questionable; you want them to have a sustainable revenue model, and the ideally on top of that, be profitable.

kasparsklavins 8y ago

Performance and stability? Still yet to have a day where I havent had a 500 error on gitlab cloud.

kokey 8y ago
GitLab is pretty impressive with the rate of features that gets shipped, but it does come at the cost of things not always been stable even though I think it's pretty impressive how stable it is considering the volume of changes being shipped. That said I found a way to have it stable is to run GitLab on your own systems using their omnibus installer, and then upgrade around the 20th of each month before the next big release so you upgrade to a version with most of the patch versions instead of the latest bigger version.
matteeyah 8y ago
Thanks for bringing this up. We're actively working on making sure GitLab.com is ready for mission-critical workloads. You can see a list of ongoing efforts in [1]. However, we're not quite there yet. At the moment, for mission-critical workloads we recommend self-hosting. [1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=availability https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...