williamchia

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by williamchia 7y ago
GitLabber here, one of our core values is iteration and our mission statement is "Everyone can contribute" https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/values/#iteration Honestly, you could submit and merege reques
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by williamchia 7y ago
I work at GitLab and can shed some light here. As a 100% remote company we work in all timezone. Writing things down actually helps make things more efficient. At my last job, to get anything done I needed to call a meeting because state li
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by williamchia 7y ago
GitLab has 736 team members - https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/
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by williamchia 7y ago
I've been at GitLab about 2 years. While I've worked remote and on teams with remote members, there is a huge difference when everyone is remote. I'd estimiate that I am 2x-3x more productive than any job I've had before
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by williamchia 8y ago
Funny thing, when I joined the team at GitLab over a year ago I was really annoyed by this since I'd been using PR for the better part of a decade. Now I'm so used to saying MR that PR sounds very strange. All in all, "merge
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by williamchia 8y ago
Yes, you've touched on a key difference between Jenkins and GitLab in general: Jenkins: only does CI/CD, needs to be integrated with a suite of other tools. GitLab: end-to-end DevOps in one application that has native project plan
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by williamchia 8y ago
GH Enterprise pricing is $21 /user/mo [1] GL Ultimate pricing is $99 /user/mo [2] [1] https://github.com/pricing/enterprise [2] https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#self-managed
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by williamchia 8y ago
I'm curious how you came to this conclusion about GitLab's business model? GitLab is pretty clear on the homepage. The business model is to compete in 9 different categories, only one of which is GitHub. (GitLab pricing is also
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by williamchia 8y ago
> Bosses never expect an email to be answered immediately. Sounds like wherever you were working before was doing it wrong. I work remote and no one ever expects immediate email or slack. It is because the whole company is remote that th
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by williamchia 8y ago
GitLab the open source project was started in 2011. GitLab the company didn't start until 2014. GitHub is 6 years older than GitLab.
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by williamchia 8y ago
Not likely according to CNBC interview [1]: > Rometty told CNBC that the deal should not be interpreted as part of any plan for her to transition out of her position as CEO at IBM. > "I'm still young and I'm not going a
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by williamchia 8y ago
GitLabber here. GitLab publicly states our goal is to IPO on Wednesday, November 18. 2020 and that we don't want to be acquired so we can preserve our values: https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals
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by williamchia 8y ago
Hi, GitLabber here. There are several inaccuracies in your comment. Hopefully, I can clarify and comment. > Google is an investor in GitLab Not true. GV invested in GitLab. GV != Google. (Just do a web search to learn the difference.) &g
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by williamchia 8y ago
GV operates independently of Google (part of why the name changed officially form “Google Ventures” to GV) GitLab parters with and supports multiple clouds - e.g. GitLab announced official support for Amazon EKS, and IBM Cloud runs GitLab C
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by williamchia 8y ago
Note, it's only a paid feature for private projects on GitLab.com. Public projects get all features of Gold for free: https://about.gitlab.com/open-source/
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by williamchia 8y ago
For every release GitLab gives an MVP award to the community member who contributes in an impactful way to that release. Stan has earned it the most times: https://about.gitlab.com/mvp/
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by williamchia 8y ago
Hi Simon, I work at GitLab. Sorry for the radio silence. I do know we prioritize follow up based on company size & order size. If a smaller company requests a few licenses it can slip through the cracks. I've tracked down your reco
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by williamchia 8y ago
As a transparent company, our roadmap (what we spend time on) along with our strategy (why we spend it there) is public. https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/ T
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by williamchia 9y ago
It seems like you should be able to do this, but there may need to be an update to work with already-mirrored repos since the feature was designed to have a flow that expects a new project to be created. I've logged an issue to track d
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by williamchia 9y ago
No, I'm sorry, your comment is correct. It is free on GitLab.com for public repos. It is also free for private repos on GitLab.com for the next year.
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by williamchia 9y ago
Edit: I see clearly now in the top-level comment you mention self-hosting Ah, my apologies, didn't realize you were self-hosting GitLab vs using GitLab.com. Yes, this is the case for self-hosted instances it is part of the Premium fea
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by williamchia 9y ago
Hi - with GitHub everything is configured automatically. A future feature may implement this for BitBucket as well, but you can get a similar experience today by manually configuring the component parts (mirroring, webhook to GitLab on comm
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by williamchia 9y ago
Hi Eslaught - So the new CI/CD for GitHub feature should be solving the pain points of the old manual mirroring process. When you set up a project and Oauth to GitHub it should automatically implement 3 components: - Bidirectional M
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by williamchia 9y ago
Hi Kuschku - I think this is misunderstanding, we are offering GitLab CI/CD for free for GitHub.com projects. It'll be free for private repos for a year, and it will be free for public repos forever. See the "Open source pro
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by williamchia 9y ago
Also available for free for "anyone using GitHub" - not just enterprises :) https://about.gitlab.com/features/github/#anyone-using-githu...
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by williamchia 9y ago
Thank you for your candid feedback - we've updated our homepage to include a more accurate headline: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...