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Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see ho

Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see how it is.

sytse 11y ago
GitLab CEO here, I would love to know what kind of heavy is the problem you're experiencing, hard to setup? hard to upgrade? cpu/ram/disk usage? too many features?
- drewmate 11y ago
  How do people find and respond to any mention of their company on HN? I get why you'd want to, it's fantastic PR to seem/be so engaged with your users, but where do you find the time? Is there some monitoring service that notifies you whenever any keyword is mentioned on social media?
  - thecatspaw 11y ago
    mention.com does that
  - thebouv 11y ago
    2 ways: 1) This thread is about a kinda-competitor to GitLab, so maybe he was just here reading it. 2) There are monitoring services like: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-your-company-name-mentioned-hacker-news/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-...
  - icebraining 11y ago
    Here's an RSS feed of all HN comments: http://hnrss.org/newcomments http://hnrss.org/newcomments Add it on a decent reader, filter for the word "GitLab", and you're done.
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thanks for appreciating our effort. Responding takes a lot of time but it is a lot of fun as well. We use http://notify.ly/ http://notify.ly/ to ping us in a Slack channel to be able to respond fast, highly recommended.
    - bahaagalal 11y ago
      Thanks for recommending notify.ly ^^. Much appreciated :). Bahaa CTO of Notify
      - sytse 11y ago
        Thanks, great service, nice to see you here on HN.
- est 11y ago
  Mostly, RAM problem. We have a budget server with 1G RAM, had to restart Gitlab everyday, otherwise we get constant 500 errors.
  - sytse 11y ago
    I'm sorry to hear that. Just checking, have you added 1GB of swap? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/requirements.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...
- SunShiranui 11y ago
  I've been thinking about buying a Raspberry Pi 2 to run Gitlab on it. Do you think it is feasible or will the performance be too bad for normal use? I'll be hosting about 2-3 repos with 4 users on it.
  - sytse 11y ago
    Thanks for considering GitLab. That will work, please see https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2... for more information.
m4tthumphrey 11y ago
Do you mind if I ask why you think it's "heavy" ? I've been using it for about 3 years now and think it's an awesome tool. It's done me very proud at two different companies, as well as a personal install.

Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see how it is.

sytse 11y ago

GitLab CEO here, I would love to know what kind of heavy is the problem you're experiencing, hard to setup? hard to upgrade? cpu/ram/disk usage? too many features?

drewmate 11y ago
How do people find and respond to any mention of their company on HN? I get why you'd want to, it's fantastic PR to seem/be so engaged with your users, but where do you find the time? Is there some monitoring service that notifies you whenever any keyword is mentioned on social media?
- thecatspaw 11y ago
  mention.com does that
- thebouv 11y ago
  2 ways: 1) This thread is about a kinda-competitor to GitLab, so maybe he was just here reading it. 2) There are monitoring services like: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-your-company-name-mentioned-hacker-news/ https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-...
- icebraining 11y ago
  Here's an RSS feed of all HN comments: http://hnrss.org/newcomments http://hnrss.org/newcomments Add it on a decent reader, filter for the word "GitLab", and you're done.
- sytse 11y ago
  Thanks for appreciating our effort. Responding takes a lot of time but it is a lot of fun as well. We use http://notify.ly/ http://notify.ly/ to ping us in a Slack channel to be able to respond fast, highly recommended.
  - bahaagalal 11y ago
    Thanks for recommending notify.ly ^^. Much appreciated :). Bahaa CTO of Notify
    - sytse 11y ago
      Thanks, great service, nice to see you here on HN.
est 11y ago
Mostly, RAM problem. We have a budget server with 1G RAM, had to restart Gitlab everyday, otherwise we get constant 500 errors.
- sytse 11y ago
  I'm sorry to hear that. Just checking, have you added 1GB of swap? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/requirements.md https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...
SunShiranui 11y ago
I've been thinking about buying a Raspberry Pi 2 to run Gitlab on it. Do you think it is feasible or will the performance be too bad for normal use? I'll be hosting about 2-3 repos with 4 users on it.
- sytse 11y ago
  Thanks for considering GitLab. That will work, please see https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2/ https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2... for more information.

m4tthumphrey 11y ago

Do you mind if I ask why you think it's "heavy" ? I've been using it for about 3 years now and think it's an awesome tool. It's done me very proud at two different companies, as well as a personal install.