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We also want to offer all the power and flexibility of Jenkins but we still have some work ahead of us. The idea is to add those features to GitLab itself and not to plugins. Plugins tend to cause brittleness https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218391 We want to make sure that you can upgrade GitLab without having to worry about things breaking.

For the current GitLab release (8.15, December 22) we planned the following CI improvements (not all will be ready, some will slip to Jan 22):

Pipelines for Merge Requests https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23902

Remove Builds tab from Merge Requests and Commits https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/23638

Make pipeline graph nodes bigger and responsive https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22088

Direct link from pipeline list to builds https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19703

Part of the issues in Improve reliability of CI/CD https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/24361

Does these pipelines thing imply moving away from Sidekiq? At work that's our biggest issue with Gitlab. Sidekiq dies all the time and Gitlab has to be restarted for merge requests to work again.

These pipelines do not imply moving away from Sidekiq. Have you tried using the Omnibus package? It contains logic to make sure restarting Sidekiq is automatic. How much memory does GitLab have and how many users?

Only 5 users. We are using Gitlab from Bitnami which I'm sure is using the Omnibus package. Maybe they configure it differently. I'll check, thanks.

The Bitnami package indeed doesn't include any of this. I strongly recommend switching to Omnibus.

From https://about.gitlab.com/installation/ "One-click installers are frequently out of date and might not contain our Omnibus packages. An example of this are the Bitnami packages in the past couldn't be updated and are now much harder to update than the Omnibus packages. We advise to not use one-click installers but instead start an vanilla Ubuntu instance and use the recommended Omnibus package installation. This is almost as quick as a one-click install and you're sure of the latest version and easy upgrades."

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