Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab

Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by adam-a on Monday January 18, 2016 @06:28AM (#10923773)

I think they mean you can download the free community edition and host that. Why do you feel you need to pay for the EE version?

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by hobs on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:00AM (#10924110)

While I dont agree with the GP, from the phrasing its clear they mean that the project would be hosted on Gitlab's servers.

In my opinion its nice to have the ability to host it yourself and it was the primary feature attracting me to GL, followed by it looking user friendly for a few people I am working with who are not shell people, and what finally sold me is they clearly have a team which is focused on making the product better.

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by arihant on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:34AM (#10924022)

If I have to host myself, why won't I simply host Git? The point of these services is peace of mind. If I'm managing on-prem, it kind of kills the point.

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by dingo_bat on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:25AM (#10924219)

You get a lot of extra features. Also, I suppose you'd get a lot of things just working, as opposed to plain git.

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