<story><title>Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/09/17/gitlab-doubles-valuation-to-nearly-3-billion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>Does anyone know why GitLab hasn&amp;#x27;t taken off so much amongst open source projects?&lt;p&gt;I have no horse in the race (indeed, I&amp;#x27;d love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I&amp;#x27;ve just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos.&lt;p&gt;Lest you think it&amp;#x27;s just me, compare &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=github.com&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com&lt;/a&gt; .. the first is packed with projects posted here on a daily basis. The latter? 13 project links in about 50 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toupeira</author><text>There are some high-profile FOSS projects using GitLab, but they&amp;#x27;re not as visible as they would be on GitHub because they host their own instances:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.gnome.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.freedesktop.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;salsa.debian.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;salsa.debian.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (AFAIK this is an ongoing migration)&lt;p&gt;Others are considering a migration:&lt;p&gt;- KDE: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;24900&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;24900&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- GNU Emacs: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;28152&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;28152&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe someday we&amp;#x27;ll have federation to work around this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;30672&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;30672&lt;/a&gt; :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/09/17/gitlab-doubles-valuation-to-nearly-3-billion/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>petercooper</author><text>Does anyone know why GitLab hasn&amp;#x27;t taken off so much amongst open source projects?&lt;p&gt;I have no horse in the race (indeed, I&amp;#x27;d love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I&amp;#x27;ve just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos.&lt;p&gt;Lest you think it&amp;#x27;s just me, compare &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=github.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=github.com&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;from?site=gitlab.com&lt;/a&gt; .. the first is packed with projects posted here on a daily basis. The latter? 13 project links in about 50 days.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucideer</author><text>Search friendliness.&lt;p&gt;Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of &amp;quot;marketing site&amp;quot; for developers.&lt;p&gt;Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.</text></comment>