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One thing stopping me from moving my company's code to gitlabs cloud offering is the storage sizes for repos being extremely small. I heard from a rep that this

One thing stopping me from moving my company's code to gitlabs cloud offering is the storage sizes for repos being extremely small. I heard from a rep that this will change in November. I'm wondering if this purchase-more-storage change come relates to this?

detaro 6y ago
They're hosting Gitlab themselves.
alex_reg 6y ago
Wikimedia will self-host Gitlab. They can use whatever limits they want.
- q3k 6y ago
  They are still very limited when it comes to functionality though - only the first column in https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-comparison/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-compar... , right?
  - Grimm1 6y ago
    My understanding is you can self host and pay a sub and get access to all the other features. I may be wrong.
    - boleary-gl 6y ago
      That's correct - with the GitLab Enterprise Edition you can self-host GitLab and get access to all of the features - both those from the Core open source version as well as our proprietary features.
    - mikey_p 6y ago
      Yes, but that's only if you self-host the Enterprise Edition which contains non-free code, not the Community Edition which only contains free code.
  - alex_reg 6y ago
    All of those are self-hosted. "Core" is the free community edition. The others are not open source/free and require payment. Core is plenty for most use cases. That table makes it look like it has almost no features, but most items in the list are either advanced or pretty niche.
    - q3k 6y ago
      Right, so is Wikimedia going to pay $$$ to GitLab for one of the more advanced licenses?
      - jonp888 6y ago
        According to their pricing page: "We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions. Find out more by visiting our GitLab for Open Source and GitLab for Education program pages." I'm sure Wikimedia has the dosh to pay for licenses themselves, but it's hard to see how the per/user pricing model would work for any open source project.
      - boleary-gl 6y ago
        No, Wikimedia is going to be using the Community Edition (CE) of GitLab, which is free and open source under an MIT license. This decision and the reasons for it are described in more detail in the FAQ section of the linked article.
    - deleted 6y ago
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  - Deukhoofd 6y ago
    They probably use the free Open Source option, which gives access to the top tiers for free. https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/
    - mikey_p 6y ago
      That means they are running non-free code, which seems to be one of their main points against Github.
      - 20after4 6y ago
        It's community edition.
        mikey_p 6y ago
        The community edition doesn't have any tiers or features, those are only in the Enterprise Edition.
    - 67868018 6y ago
      This requires asking for a specific number of license seats for your open source project and that's impossible to work with. Every possible user account/contributor takes up a license. How many contributors will I have tomorrow? Don't know. How many spam accounts will I have that waste license seats? Too many, and they're impossible to clean up.
BerislavLopac 6y ago
Where can one find the repo sizes?
SparkyMcUnicorn 6y ago
The limit is 10GB, while GitHub's limit is "ideally less than 1 GB, and less than 5 GB is strongly recommended". I don't consider 10GB to be "extremely small", especially since that's a larger than usual limit for a hosted solution.
- naavis 6y ago
  You can buy tons more space for Git LFS on GitHub. 10GB seems to be a hard limit on Gitlab.
YorickPeterse 6y ago
The repository storage size is 10GB [1]. I wouldn't consider that "extremely small". [1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/index.html#account-and-limit-settings https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/index.html#accoun...
- gravypod 6y ago
  That's for container registry, packages, code, artifacts, everything. I have a single project in my monorepo that produces a 512MB binary file and stores it as an asset. In 20 CI runs, assuming there was 0 code in repo or anywhere else, we'd use up the entire budget. We make more than 20 commits/day.
  - remram 6y ago
    I don't know about those other features, but that definitely does not include the container registry.

detaro 6y ago

They're hosting Gitlab themselves.

alex_reg 6y ago

Wikimedia will self-host Gitlab. They can use whatever limits they want.

q3k 6y ago
They are still very limited when it comes to functionality though - only the first column in https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-comparison/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-compar... , right?
- Grimm1 6y ago
  My understanding is you can self host and pay a sub and get access to all the other features. I may be wrong.
  - boleary-gl 6y ago
    That's correct - with the GitLab Enterprise Edition you can self-host GitLab and get access to all of the features - both those from the Core open source version as well as our proprietary features.
  - mikey_p 6y ago
    Yes, but that's only if you self-host the Enterprise Edition which contains non-free code, not the Community Edition which only contains free code.
- alex_reg 6y ago
  All of those are self-hosted. "Core" is the free community edition. The others are not open source/free and require payment. Core is plenty for most use cases. That table makes it look like it has almost no features, but most items in the list are either advanced or pretty niche.
  - q3k 6y ago
    Right, so is Wikimedia going to pay $$$ to GitLab for one of the more advanced licenses?
    - jonp888 6y ago
      According to their pricing page: "We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions. Find out more by visiting our GitLab for Open Source and GitLab for Education program pages." I'm sure Wikimedia has the dosh to pay for licenses themselves, but it's hard to see how the per/user pricing model would work for any open source project.
    - boleary-gl 6y ago
      No, Wikimedia is going to be using the Community Edition (CE) of GitLab, which is free and open source under an MIT license. This decision and the reasons for it are described in more detail in the FAQ section of the linked article.
  - deleted 6y ago
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- Deukhoofd 6y ago
  They probably use the free Open Source option, which gives access to the top tiers for free. https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/
  - mikey_p 6y ago
    That means they are running non-free code, which seems to be one of their main points against Github.
    - 20after4 6y ago
      It's community edition.
      - mikey_p 6y ago
        The community edition doesn't have any tiers or features, those are only in the Enterprise Edition.
  - 67868018 6y ago
    This requires asking for a specific number of license seats for your open source project and that's impossible to work with. Every possible user account/contributor takes up a license. How many contributors will I have tomorrow? Don't know. How many spam accounts will I have that waste license seats? Too many, and they're impossible to clean up.

BerislavLopac 6y ago

Where can one find the repo sizes?

SparkyMcUnicorn 6y ago

The limit is 10GB, while GitHub's limit is "ideally less than 1 GB, and less than 5 GB is strongly recommended". I don't consider 10GB to be "extremely small", especially since that's a larger than usual limit for a hosted solution.

naavis 6y ago
You can buy tons more space for Git LFS on GitHub. 10GB seems to be a hard limit on Gitlab.

YorickPeterse 6y ago

The repository storage size is 10GB [1]. I wouldn't consider that "extremely small". [1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/index.html#account-and-limit-settings https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/index.html#accoun...

gravypod 6y ago
That's for container registry, packages, code, artifacts, everything. I have a single project in my monorepo that produces a 512MB binary file and stores it as an asset. In 20 CI runs, assuming there was 0 code in repo or anywhere else, we'd use up the entire budget. We make more than 20 commits/day.
- remram 6y ago
  I don't know about those other features, but that definitely does not include the container registry.