GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge Conflict Editor

Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by sslalready on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:14PM (#12769515)

Speaking of UX, would you consider improving the look of Markdown rendered text (usually README.md) in the repo browser? On GitHub they look great and it's a pleasure reading Markdown formatted text there. In GitLab it's however not very appealing. Headers, spacing between them and paragraphs doesn't look very good IMO.

Coming from a previous job where we used GitHub and TeamCity, something I miss with GitLab is the ability to create a pipeline that's not connected to a specific Git branch. I'd like to be able to create a pipeline that can be triggered manually, without first having to create a dummy branch to put a .gitlab-ci.yml there. Is that something that's on your roadmap?

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Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by andreasmarc on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:18PM (#12769860)

Regarding Markdown renderering, from my perspective the most important improvement is reducing the line width to a better readable character length. This is already addressed [0] and on the list for the 8.14 release. I agree that the spacing can be improved. In general, my impression is that there is a good awareness for required UI improvements [1] in the GitLab team. So I’m looking forward to the upcoming releases.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13680

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22192

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Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by sytse on Saturday October 22, 2016 @05:07PM (#12770569)

Thanks for posting Andreas. If there are other concrete things we can do to improve markdown rendering issues for them are very welcome.

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Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by foepys on Saturday October 22, 2016 @01:48PM (#12769688)

I find the whole design of GitLab not appealing to my eye. The recent redesign was a step in the right direction but I am still missing visible separators (e.g. boxes, lines, colored background) between/around areas for example on the page of an issue.

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Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by aeharding on Saturday October 22, 2016 @03:06PM (#12770087)

I have to agree. When I first started using Gitlab, it was quite jarring.

I'm much more happy with Gitlab's UI now that I've spent a lot of time with it. At least I don't fight with the interface after becoming familiar with it (it's no iTunes).

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Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by awhildy on Monday October 24, 2016 @10:47AM (#12779244)

Thanks for the feedback, and I'm sorry to hear about the issues. We will continue to iterate and improve upon the design of GitLab based on feedback, and I hope we will address your concerns.

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Re:GitLab 8.13 Released with Multiple Issue Boards and Merge... by manigandham on Sunday October 23, 2016 @10:45AM (#12773769)

UX (and performance in general) is the #1 reason we don't use GitLab.

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