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Junior Community Advocate at GitLab

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Comment · 6 years ago

Hey efiecho, Community Advocate from GitLab here! I'm sorry to hear that you are not a fan of our actions and/or decisions.

Can you please dive into specifics a little bit and explain what parts of GitLab could be improved and what are some high-level things that you don't particularly like?

Comment · 6 years ago

Thank you for the explanation! I just opened an issue proposing this [1]. Please add a comment with any additional feedback that you might have or feel free to ping me if I didn't fully understand what you are proposing.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/216573

Comment · 6 years ago

Community Advocate from GitLab here! If I understand you correctly, you are looking for a way to aggregate analytics across GitLab, so that users can view information across multiple projects and groups in one place.

We have the Analytics feature designed for that [1]. Please be aware of the distinction between Group-level and Project-level analytics described there.

If you have any feedback on how we can improve this feature, or if you have other ideas, please open an issue [2] and share as many details and examples as possible. We'd love to look into it!

[1] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/analytics/index.html.

[2] - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/issues

Comment · 6 years ago

Just wanted to chime in and add following links from our documentation:

Get the diff of a commit - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/commits.html#get-the-diff-of-...

List repository tree - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/repositories.html#list-reposi...

Repository files API - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/repository_files.html

Comment · 7 years ago

Hello all, GitLabber here!

We opened an issue for gathering feedback at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164 and you can find the most up to date information regarding this topic there. Please join the discussion and let us know what you think.

Comment · 7 years ago

Hello, GitLabber here! We’re currently writing an issue explaining the situation, once it’s public I will link it here.

Comment · 7 years ago

Please see how did we start paying team members according to the location in the first place and why we did it here: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/

Comment · 7 years ago

The Debian migration is actually finished.

Comment · 7 years ago

We are offering our top tiers (Ultimate or Gold) for free to open source projects [1]. You can see the complete list in our repo [2]. Some of the most recent projects that received our free license are Arch Linux, the Tor Project, edX (currently migrating). Just to add a few more: Drupal, Haskell, VLC, Kali Linux, Lineage OS, and more on this comment [3].

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/program/

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/marketing/community-relations/...

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724015

Comment · 7 years ago

This was often a hot topic on HackerNews, so we decided to write a blog post explaining why we pay local rates. Please find more information here [1].

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/

Comment · 7 years ago

> Anyhow, I'm looking forward to see a similar feature implemented by Gitlab, even without the matching donations.

You can check out this issue [1]. Please upvote it if you want to see this implemented, or join the discussion if you have any additional ideas.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43468

Comment · 7 years ago

Thank you for pointing this out - we'll try to fix this as soon as possible.

Comment · 7 years ago

You can read why GitLab pays local rates on our blog post [1]

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/2019/02/28/why-we-pay-local-rates/

Comment · 7 years ago

Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here.

GitLab.com was originally announced with free private repos. When you’re starting to program and aren't ready to share your code with the world yet, you don't have to have a paid account to keep it private.

Now, we're focusing on making a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle that can replace a lot of other tools[1]. So instead of a version control system that lets people try out different integrations, GitLab provides an opinionated (yet flexible with key integrations and the option to opt out of anything you don't want) way to run the entire software development and deployment lifecycle.

Or, as Stavros Korokithakis phrased it: "My move to GitLab was basically 'Come for the free repos, stay for the rest of the amazing features.' I will not be moving off it, and my new repos will keep being on GitLab."

[1] - https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/

Comment · 7 years ago

Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here.

We are an open core company. We ship two editions - Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. CE is completely open source and licensed under MIT license. EE is proprietary, closed source code but we try to work in a way similar to GitLab CE: the issue tracker is publicly viewable and the EE license allows modifications.

In conclusion (TLDR), GitLab has an open core business model and ships both open and closed source software.