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Re:GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CRE... by IshKebab on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:11AM (#48105190)
That's a really crazy number of employees considering they have one product that barely seems to change and is at best on par with similar products created by comparatively miniscule teams (Phabricator, Forgejo).
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Re:GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CRE... by feisty0630 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:59PM (#48111848)
It would be interesting to see the breakdown on technical vs non-technical roles. I can't imagine it takes even 50% of that to actually develop the product.
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Re:GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CRE... by malaproping on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:38PM (#48124982)
There are 800 on the engineering team
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Re:GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CRE... by malaproping on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:40PM (#48125014)
GitLab is a way more complex product
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Re:GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CRE... by 20after4 on Saturday May 16, 2026 @11:52PM (#48165919)
Phabricator (now Phorge) was developed by a team of 2-3 people for most of it's life, with a little help from several moderately active contributors like myself.

Gitlab is a really big conglomeration of services and daemons and tools written in multiple languages. It's approximately an order of magnitude more complicated than the relatively straightforward and (IMO) well designed Phabricator architecture.

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