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I haven't personally had a compelling enough reason to move from GitHub to GitLab, so I mostly just use it to mirror a couple of my repos there in case people p

I haven't personally had a compelling enough reason to move from GitHub to GitLab, so I mostly just use it to mirror a couple of my repos there in case people prefer to browse various open source projects via GitLab. Regardless, I think competition in the space is a great thing. GitLab has come a long way and there are certain things I really like about the company. For example, I love how they tend to do everything "in the open" and have most of their development work and business documents public. It's a great resource for aspiring entrepreneurs. I have been a bit concerned about some of the architecture of GitLab lately, with quite a few security fixes resulting in unusual edge-case bugs. My only other complaint is that they tend have a very wide but shallow pool of products. They have ambitious goals with their platform, but I hope they are able to build real value and add features to the existing core products. Congrats to everyone on the GitLab team. Keep doing good work.

eftokay83 5y ago
Mind to share a "quick link" to the mentioned documents?
- dcchambers 5y ago
  Sure, the most obvious link is this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com Here's a few examples: Runbooks: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks - which I've used as inspiration for runbooks on my own team. Handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ Roadmap/Product Vision: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ A note in their handbook on transparency: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency
- sm4rk0 5y ago
  https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
base698 5y ago
To me it was very compelling before GitHub actions and only slightly compelling now.
ModernMech 5y ago
I'm the opposite actually. I do all my dev on Gitlab, and mirror on Github for the exposure.
- jupp0r 5y ago
  Maybe this is the time for a big shout out to the creators of git for making use cases like these a first class citizen.
  - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
    And imagine that… it hasn’t stopped other sites from making their successful products around a free and open backbone.

eftokay83 5y ago

Mind to share a "quick link" to the mentioned documents?

dcchambers 5y ago
Sure, the most obvious link is this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com Here's a few examples: Runbooks: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/runbooks - which I've used as inspiration for runbooks on my own team. Handbook: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ Roadmap/Product Vision: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ A note in their handbook on transparency: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#transparency
sm4rk0 5y ago
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

base698 5y ago

To me it was very compelling before GitHub actions and only slightly compelling now.

ModernMech 5y ago

I'm the opposite actually. I do all my dev on Gitlab, and mirror on Github for the exposure.

jupp0r 5y ago
Maybe this is the time for a big shout out to the creators of git for making use cases like these a first class citizen.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
  And imagine that… it hasn’t stopped other sites from making their successful products around a free and open backbone.