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Re:GitLab 8.5 released by jobvandervoort on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:08AM (#11151248)
We're super excited with GitLab 8.5. It's much faster, no matter the size of your instance (but especially for larger instances).

The Todos, ability to revert commits and CNAME support for Pages, are things that have been much requested and we're happy to have now.

As always, we're here if anyone has any questions about anything.

Re:GitLab 8.5 released by eadz on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:45PM (#11153673)
Pages are an EE feature, but one which is useful for open source projects. Would you accept a pull request for a community implementation of Pages? or would a fork be needed in this case? How do you see this sort of issue playing out?
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by ywecur on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:48PM (#11155314)
This is a very good question and something I'm always concerned about when it comes to open core products.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Monday February 22, 2016 @08:58PM (#11155897)
Good question, how we deal with that is detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship Please let me know if you have any questions.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by fsiefken on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:34PM (#11152578)
Hi Job, does this mean it is also faster in low memory environments like 512M? ToDo integration is a great feature!
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:44PM (#11152661)
No, unfortunately not. We recommend 2GB of memory to run GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...

If 512MB is a requirement for you please consider using Gogs.

Glad you like the Todos feature!

Re:GitLab 8.5 released by tshannon on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:28PM (#11153547)
I just wanted to say how awesome it is that you mention Gogs, a competing platform. It shows that you're focused on your domain, not closed-mindly discounting every competitor, and are open about any shortcomings in Gitlab.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sdesol on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:43PM (#11155293)
It also makes sense from a business point of view. The three strong points that I've taken from business school are:

1) You can overtake an incumbent if you can offer twice the value at half the price. If you can produce a drill that works two times better than existing drills at half the price, you'll overtake the drill market.

2) You can't compete with "as good as". Winning here is more marketing than anything and this is where companies like Apple and Coco-Cola shine. You can't beat Coke with point one, since it is impossible to produce something that is better than Coke. You can measure the performance differences between drills, but you can't measure the psychological value of Coke and Apple

3) You can't compete by price, unless you are dealing with a commodity product, which brings me to my point for posting.

Turning "Git hosting" into a commodity product is not a bad situation for GitLab and I honestly think this is where it's heading. In a year or two, we'll probably see less tangible/understood things become the main selling point. Such as intelligent code reviews, better code management metrics, defect predictions and so forth.

Edit:

Forgot to mention that point 3 is also where Atlassian deserves a lot of credit. They are leveraging point 3 and trying to parlay it into point 1.

Re:GitLab 8.5 released by tedmiston on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:25PM (#11154815)
Perhaps this is what you were thinking too -- it'd be stellar to be able to run on a t2.nano or the DO $5/mo box, but it's also easy to understand why that wouldn't be a major priority for the GL team.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:07PM (#11155941)
We would love to make this happen but there is so much functionality in GitLab it needs a ton of memory to run.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by gpc on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:26AM (#11151394)
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by jobvandervoort on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:29AM (#11151426)
It seems not, unfortunately, I'm sorry if you were waiting for it.

I'll discuss if we can ship it in a patch [0], otherwise it'll land in a month in CE.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/11489#note_38...

Re:GitLab 8.5 released by gpc on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:35AM (#11151468)
Thanks, Looking forward to it.

otherwise, congrats on another release!

Re:GitLab 8.5 released by jobvandervoort on Monday February 22, 2016 @10:51AM (#11151595)
Thanks!

Consensus seems to be we can ship it somewhere this week.

Re:GitLab 8.5 released by gpc on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:46PM (#11152680)
I've been keeping an eye on that issue thread throughout the morning and although it doesn't seem appropriate for me to make a comment over there just to say this, I wanted to communicate it somewhere: the gitlab team is really impressing me in terms of responsiveness and flexibility. I really hope to see you keep that culture as you continue to grow and succeed. It doesn't go unnoticed!
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:56PM (#11152758)
Thanks, glad to hear that. We're doing everything we can to keep and improve upon that culture. Being remote first and having a public issue tracker certainly helps, less difference between a comment of a co-worker and of a user.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by orless on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:01PM (#11154624)
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:04PM (#11155924)
Sorry about that. There was a brief interruption to GitLab pages while we fixed a vulnerability. It is back now https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus/status/701897151790653440
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by hinkley on Monday February 22, 2016 @11:21PM (#11156528)
Is this release going to make any significant difference on the hosted projects? The last time I asked about Gitlab.com in a thread people mentioned that it's not more popular due to performance issues.
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:13AM (#11156746)
Yep, so that is what we solved in this release. Title of the OP: "GitLab's fastest release ever". For more details see the announcement and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by dogweather on Monday February 22, 2016 @03:30PM (#11154028)
Have you deployed it to gitlab.com?
Re:GitLab 8.5 released by sytse on Monday February 22, 2016 @09:07PM (#11155945)
Not yet, from the OP: "For GitLab.com users: We plan to enable custom domains on GitLab.com in the following week, so stay tuned!"