GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by knownothing on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:27PM (#17224070)

I'd like to point out that GitLab is not independent. They are owned by investors, including Google Ventures. So anyone who thinks they're giving GitHub/MS the finger by migrating their repos, please be ready to move everything again when GitLab disappoints you.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by DouweM on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:52AM (#17225788)

GitLab engineer here: our CEO has responded to exactly that concern in https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003415290368028672 and https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1003337681668005888. To quote:

> We'll have a liquidity event. We're aiming for an IPO https://about.gitlab.com/strategy/#goals but we can't rule out an acquisition.

And it's worth pointing out that you can run GitLab on your own server, so even if GitLab.com ever ends up disappointing you, you don't need to go through the trouble of migrating to the next best thing.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by deadcast on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:36PM (#17224115)

Or then I could just host it myself using their open tech and everything would be fine again. :)

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by naiveai on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:49PM (#17224448)

Google has done a lot of shit before, but I sure as hell trust them more than Microsoft at the moment when it comes to acquisitions.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by nojvek on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:30AM (#17224915)

Care to explain what? Satya Microsoft is day/night different between Ballmer MIcrosoft.

Meanwhile Sundar Pichai Google hasn’t been the friendliest.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by mort96 on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:39AM (#17226094)

Windows is still doing a lot of bullshit with ads in the start menu and forced updates. A bunch of their open source stuff which has included spyware has been less than upfront about including spyware.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by zik on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:21AM (#17225622)

I think what happened to Skype is a case in point. It doesn't matter who's running Microsoft, after that disaster I don't think anyone's going to be trusting them.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by cygned on Monday June 04, 2018 @07:16AM (#17226676)

Skype has basically become unusable for professional communication. It’s getting worse with every update. I kind of expect the same for Github then. That’s my concern.

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by simonlc on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:18AM (#17225604)

What about Windows 10?

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by rambojazz on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:25AM (#17224899)

This. Thank you for pointing this out. Also I have a hard time trusting the "community + proprietary" model...

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Re:GitLab sees huge spike in project imports by malinens on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:43AM (#17237090)

They are actually advertising google cloud platform in self-hosted versions now:

https://i.imgur.com/OgrNMxn.png

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