brodock

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   by brodock 7y ago

   Also GitLab employee here. I work for the Geo team (geographical replication and disaster recovery), and funny thing is we are also sparsely geographically distributed. No single person in the same country. We have people spread out with al
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   by brodock 7y ago

   You would be surprised by how big the entry barrier is when you have to use a mailing list to do anything. Just as an example, when inkscape project migrated to GitLab [1] , I've noticed something that was not optimal in their CI defin
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   by brodock 7y ago

   GitHub doesn't provide you with any standard way to migrate the related metadata, but unlike Atlassian's Bitbucket, which doesn't make everything accessible with their APIs, it's possible to get all the data with GitHub&
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   by brodock 7y ago

   GitLab Community Edition is being used by major FOSS communities like Debian [1], GNOME [2] and Freedesktop [3]. [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/help [2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/help [3]: https:/&#x2F
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   by brodock 7y ago

   There is an ongoing effort to get us migrated to latest stable first. So we just upgrade from 5.0.x to 5.1.x https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/27480 there are still lots of warnings and d
6. 126.▲
   by brodock 8y ago

   There are more planned. You can read it here: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/package/
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   by brodock 8y ago

   We also provide an Export tarball with everything inside you project, including the repo, issues, merge request content, etc. We do not lock you up in a walled garden. It's also easy to import the whole project/group from one inst
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   by brodock 8y ago

   We are also running ruby 2.5.3 on master, and it's even possible to run 2.6.0-preview3 on your local machine with a few caveats
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   by brodock 8y ago

   As you may have guessed there is already an issue for that: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21485
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    by brodock 8y ago

    Hi, I don't think we have anything ready out-of-the-box to work with spot instances. I found a related issue and cross-linked with the article as suggestion for the use-case / need for better support: https://gitlab.com
11. 131.▲
    by brodock 8y ago

    huge opportunity for Mattermost and Rocket.Chat folks
12. 132.▲
    by brodock 8y ago

    Did anyone fill a CVE already?
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    by brodock 8y ago

    Regarding the displaying of public activity in your public profile: While we don't use any page tracking or anything like Google Analytics (or equivalents like Piwik) in the application, nor the activity is generated from that, we unde
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    by brodock 8y ago

    The offer is valid for both the SaaS and for On-Premise installations. (Gold refers to the SaaS plan, and Ultimate is the license level for on-premise)
15. 135.▲
    by brodock 8y ago

    There is no limitation on resources / seats etc on the free plan. The plans are all feature based
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    by brodock 8y ago

    I think this is the price of being the first, there is the cost of decisions on uncharted territories. The next competitor if they are smart they will learn from any mistake you had made.
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    by brodock 8y ago

    > BUT here is the question I have. What is the best way to UPDATE the software on the back end? GitLab has the Omnibus packages. We build it for few major linux distributions and you can get the package from here: https://pack
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    by brodock 8y ago

    You still have the source code. If big Google tries to take over you can always fork
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    by brodock 8y ago

    We are using it already in omnibus install.
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    by brodock 8y ago

    for the one step curl | bash glory: curl -s https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitl... | sudo bash For EE: curl -s https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories&#x
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    by brodock 8y ago

    You have the source, and people can always fork.
22. 142.▲
    by brodock 8y ago

    Except for issues and pull request metadata, which are important part of the project knowledge.
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    by brodock 8y ago

    They had a decent Android app, then someone saw that it was too fast/responsive and was using too little memory and took that as a challenge, how can I make skype worst? React Native! Obviously that didn't pleased people (see rati
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    by brodock 8y ago

    Also you are not allowed to use GitHub Enterprise in the "public facing internet" without "Private Mode" which means only people with an account on the system can access that. https://enterprise.github.com&#x2
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    by brodock 9y ago

    It's like a nuclear race, you are funding it not because you want to nuke someone but because you don't want to be nuked. So the incentive here is to continue to make it viable in order to have an argument against someone trying t
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    by brodock 9y ago

    There is a lack of APIs from bucket to allow that kind of operation. You should consider the lockin each platform have, before jumping in
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    by brodock 9y ago

    rocket.chat is the best alternative
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    by brodock 9y ago

    and 11.50 doesn't include traffic, which can get you even higher.
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    by brodock 9y ago

    Can't you use a hybrid strategy and use the cloud only to handle the peak load? Handling variable load is not free in the cloud, so if you are going to pay it anyway, you can keep your predictable cost down and use the cloud when you h
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    by brodock 9y ago

    the companies that pay the foundation bills.