<story><title>Beyond CI/CD: GitLab&apos;s DevOps Vision (2017)</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/04/devops-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eadz</author><text>I like gitlab, but a mixed open source &amp;#x2F; closed source product is always going to be a challenge in terms of hearts and minds. Take this quote from the article.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.&lt;p&gt;So is all the stuff that gitlab builds on, like git, or ruby, or linux, that&amp;#x27;s all pretty advanced stuff I&amp;#x27;d say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>d33</author><text>&amp;gt; The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.&lt;p&gt;Did they actually say that...? I only went to the page to confirm this and it appears true. Sounds like next time I choose self-hosted Github alternative, I should exclude Gitlab from my options - based on their approach so far, it feels like they really do mean this kind of contemptuous attitude of &amp;quot;only basic stuff should be free software&amp;quot;. 
I used to cheer for Gitlab, but this is just way over the line.&lt;p&gt;And despite what some say, I really don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s that great a product - they seem to be focused on getting a million of things poorly than get their core fixed. Performance is still terrible, see what happens to your browser when you view a diff for a large merge request. Also, you there&amp;#x27;s a limit to the number of commits in the history you can browse - come on, my `git log` loads the whole history in a split second but you can&amp;#x27;t render it? And they clearly don&amp;#x27;t care - I reported many issues to them that got confirmed and most of the time those were just shrugged off. As long as you&amp;#x27;re not an EE user, you won&amp;#x27;t really get much more than the annoyance of having odd version numbers make the sidebar sticky and even ones undo that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Beyond CI/CD: GitLab&apos;s DevOps Vision (2017)</title><url>https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/04/devops-strategy/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eadz</author><text>I like gitlab, but a mixed open source &amp;#x2F; closed source product is always going to be a challenge in terms of hearts and minds. Take this quote from the article.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The other way to look at it is that this is pretty advanced stuff, and frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be, free, open source.&lt;p&gt;So is all the stuff that gitlab builds on, like git, or ruby, or linux, that&amp;#x27;s all pretty advanced stuff I&amp;#x27;d say.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cthulhu_</author><text>Wow that really is a poorly worded phrase. If someone from GL is reading this, please fix that, it makes you look pretty bad.&lt;p&gt;Just be honest and say you want to charge for advanced features, because there&amp;#x27;s little money to be made in open source and you&amp;#x27;re a business after all and want to pay your employees a living wage.</text></comment>