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Kind of unrelated, but I'm super happy to be working at GitLab.

Nearly everything we do is out in the open, and most features are available in CE, which is fully open source (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce). I've wanted great, open source tools that don't look like dung for a long long time, and GitLab is definitely reaching that goal. Can't help but gush about the product we're building. :D

Here are some of my favorite upcoming features: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17575, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14661, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15337

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Damn, you are one lucky person! Getting paid to work on OSS is a dream come true.

Keep up the awesome work everyone :)

Thanks! And I think Connor created his own luck. People were assuming he already worked at GitLab since he was so active on social media and on our issue trackers. If you consistently contribute to GitLab it is very hard for us not to hire you.

It's such a crazy effective way to hire people. Luckily most companies don't understand it ;-)

That's a pretty effective hiring method in my opinion. You guys should publish a blog post or something on your hiring practices and results - I'm sure the HN crowd would enjoy it.

Thanks, our hiring practices are detailed on https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/hiring/ what kinds of results should we include?

I'm also thinking about writing about an open organization, where the handbooks and issue trackers are public. Would that be interesting?

Yeah, definitely. It's an interesting concept, I didn't know about the handbooks being public, seeing employees interacting on issues in the open and seeing the company's strategy be posted publicly is very cool.

Not to jump on to the gitlab bandwagon here. Adam from Skymind (YC W16) here

I just want to say the last 4 hires we've made (we're only 11 soon 12) have been from around the world (we're in 4 countries) and this has worked great for us. A thriving open source community is key to hiring for us. A lot of our team does some sort of traveling.

I myself will be working from tokyo (currently in korea actually..) moving from SF.

We make the time zones work :D. Key to that for us has been gitter where we can collaborate/support the open source community while also being able to use it for collaborating with partners and running things like training classes.

Just wanted to provide another example to prove gitlab isn't an anomaly. The same is true for a lot of the larger open source organizations (eg: canonical,redhat,automattic)

Thanks for chiming in Adam. Good to hear you're making it work. I think having a HQ is overrated. Technology is shrinking distance and making it easier to avoid the commute.

I want to work on growth for Gitlab. Where are you guys seeing problems in market penetration so I can fill out an application[0].

[0] pun intented.

edit: To anyone interested, this is the public haml file that generates their website, to which they encourage contributions. So a pull request job application it is.

I'm running GitLab CE off a NAS to host my projects, and it works really well. Thank you all for making it freely available.

Glad to hear that, thanks for using GitLab! For other people, I think there are Synology packages on https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/app_packages/Docker-GitLa...

Unfortunately only for the Intel processor units. I didn't realize this until my ARM-powered device arrived and the package wasn't available.

Not to mention the awesome team at GitLab and the Core Team from the community. Awesome progress and quite transparent and with an amazingly open approach. Buffer with a product one wants to work on.

Thanks for recognizing our Core Team, too. They're an integral part of our community. :)

Sorry if this is the wrong venue to ask this, but any idea if/when Codeship will natively support you guys?

It's honestly my one hangup since we do all of our deploys there.

Codeship founder here :) Getting a lot of requests for a GitLab integration recently and we're looking into it and are hopefully able to build it soon (I wish it would already be there)

Let me know if there's any way we can help! job at gitlab!

I want GitLab + CodeShip so badly but I won't be holding my breath.

This has been a very standard response for the last 2 years.

https://twitter.com/codeship/status/454327470402322433

I know :/ Wish we would have built it already

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