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ok, this might suck. We are on bronze right now and yes there where some things in silver that would have been nice to have it was never worth the costs per us

ok, this might suck. We are on bronze right now and yes there where some things in silver that would have been nice to have it was never worth the costs per user to upgrade (especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need), this might mean we either switch to free or abandon gitlab if there is an alternative.

mikepurvis 6y ago
> especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need This has been my org's issue as well. We use dedicated, external products for project management, CI, binary asset storage, container registry, wiki, etc etc. I get that a one-stop shop might be really valuable for a small org with basic needs that align well to what GitLab supplies, but I don't know if it scales up all that well. I would worry about getting partly migrated and then discovering some functionality gap, and maybe finding out that the GitLab team that built that feature no longer exists and there was basically no one maintaining it any more. Spreading themselves so thin does have a real cost— here's an example of recently-resolved ticket for something that I would consider core "repository" functionality (LFS content inclusion in the tarball) but that sat unfixed and unnoted-in-docs for almost four years: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15079 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15079
- wdb 6y ago
  Yeah, there are a lot of these kind of tickets imho
jrochkind1 6y ago
What are the things in bronze you did need/want, vs free?
- thepill 6y ago
  Multiple Issue Assignees for me
- rpadovani 6y ago
  For me: - issue weights - iterations - multiple issue assignees - issue dependencies We did evaluate silver (now premium), and it wasn't worth it. We will probably upgrade, but this is a 5x increase on the price, and as a long term contributor of Gitlab, this does definitely make me angry.
  - scaladev 6y ago
    >multiple issue assignees >issue dependencies FWIW these are available in Gitea, along with some other Gitlab features that require payment. It's a much more lightweight alternative, though. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/

mikepurvis 6y ago

> especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need This has been my org's issue as well. We use dedicated, external products for project management, CI, binary asset storage, container registry, wiki, etc etc. I get that a one-stop shop might be really valuable for a small org with basic needs that align well to what GitLab supplies, but I don't know if it scales up all that well. I would worry about getting partly migrated and then discovering some functionality gap, and maybe finding out that the GitLab team that built that feature no longer exists and there was basically no one maintaining it any more. Spreading themselves so thin does have a real cost— here's an example of recently-resolved ticket for something that I would consider core "repository" functionality (LFS content inclusion in the tarball) but that sat unfixed and unnoted-in-docs for almost four years: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15079 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15079

wdb 6y ago
Yeah, there are a lot of these kind of tickets imho

jrochkind1 6y ago

What are the things in bronze you did need/want, vs free?

thepill 6y ago
Multiple Issue Assignees for me
rpadovani 6y ago
For me: - issue weights - iterations - multiple issue assignees - issue dependencies We did evaluate silver (now premium), and it wasn't worth it. We will probably upgrade, but this is a 5x increase on the price, and as a long term contributor of Gitlab, this does definitely make me angry.
- scaladev 6y ago
  >multiple issue assignees >issue dependencies FWIW these are available in Gitea, along with some other Gitlab features that require payment. It's a much more lightweight alternative, though. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/ https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/