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"GitLab is beautifully designed. Just look at it" Thanks to the GitHub designers for saving GitLab a lot of work, I guess? Most of the GitLab design, almost al

"GitLab is beautifully designed. Just look at it" Thanks to the GitHub designers for saving GitLab a lot of work, I guess? Most of the GitLab design, almost all of the abstractions and interaction patterns, and even some of the UI text comes straight out of GitHub. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but GitLab feels like the webapp version of one of those GPL clones of a Microsoft app.

jobvandervoort 12y ago
GitLab is being build using Bootstrap, in part so it makes it easy for our hundreds current and potential thousands of other developers to contribute. I'm sure everyone has inspirations, but a quick look at GitLab and GitHub makes it clear that the two have diverged considerably in terms of design. Lastly, we do believe that we have much to learn in terms of design and UX. We'd love to receive contributions and concrete feedback that help us with this.
- ThatGeoGuy 12y ago
  While this doesn't add much to the discussion, I found your package pricing to be somewhat confusing (perhaps this is a typo?) [1]. I highlighted the sentence within the image, but effectively it says "$9.90 per per user/year in multiples of 20 users". I think the "per per user/year" reads strangely, since I translate that as "per per user per year". As another side question, suppose I sign up for a GitLab account and have repositories there. Is it possible to import / move them easily if I later decide to host my own instance? I noticed that you said it's easy to migrate from Bitbucket / Github, but can repos be moved between GitLab instances easily? [1] http://i.imgur.com/C9rFh0K.png http://i.imgur.com/C9rFh0K.png
  - jobvandervoort 12y ago
    Thanks for spotting the typo, fixed. It should be per user, per year. > As another side question, suppose I sign up for a GitLab account and have repositories there. Is it possible to import / move them easily if I later decide to host my own instance? I noticed that you said it's easy to migrate from Bitbucket / Github, but can repos be moved between GitLab instances easily? If you have a large amount of repositories, you can import them directly, rather than simply pushing them to the new server. Of course, we're happy to help you with this if needed.

jobvandervoort 12y ago

GitLab is being build using Bootstrap, in part so it makes it easy for our hundreds current and potential thousands of other developers to contribute. I'm sure everyone has inspirations, but a quick look at GitLab and GitHub makes it clear that the two have diverged considerably in terms of design. Lastly, we do believe that we have much to learn in terms of design and UX. We'd love to receive contributions and concrete feedback that help us with this.

ThatGeoGuy 12y ago
While this doesn't add much to the discussion, I found your package pricing to be somewhat confusing (perhaps this is a typo?) [1]. I highlighted the sentence within the image, but effectively it says "$9.90 per per user/year in multiples of 20 users". I think the "per per user/year" reads strangely, since I translate that as "per per user per year". As another side question, suppose I sign up for a GitLab account and have repositories there. Is it possible to import / move them easily if I later decide to host my own instance? I noticed that you said it's easy to migrate from Bitbucket / Github, but can repos be moved between GitLab instances easily? [1] http://i.imgur.com/C9rFh0K.png http://i.imgur.com/C9rFh0K.png
- jobvandervoort 12y ago
  Thanks for spotting the typo, fixed. It should be per user, per year. > As another side question, suppose I sign up for a GitLab account and have repositories there. Is it possible to import / move them easily if I later decide to host my own instance? I noticed that you said it's easy to migrate from Bitbucket / Github, but can repos be moved between GitLab instances easily? If you have a large amount of repositories, you can import them directly, rather than simply pushing them to the new server. Of course, we're happy to help you with this if needed.