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Gitlab 10.5 released

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> Instant SSL with Let's Encrypt for GitLab

Sweet! My days of the convoluted process of updating my certificate for my Pages site are over.

> We will be enabling Let’s Encrypt by default as well as adding support for other GitLab features like the Registry, Pages, and Mattermost, in a future release.

Oh.

In all seriousness, I'm looking forward to when Pages is supported. I've been following that open Issue for years.

The issue in question for anyone curious: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28996

I'm looking forward to it as well :)

man Gitlab continues slaying it here! The acquisition of Gemnasium is another big boost for their CI pipeline tools which are already fantastic. I love them building out the CI/CD architecture, not just from a user perspective, I think it gives them a big competitive advantage long term.

I must say I never would have predicted Gitlab being this good of a product 3-4 years ago, they're doing a lot of things right in that company. I'd like to actually know more about who is behind it, is there a mojombo?

I'm not sure I totally understand your question. Just to be clear Tom Preston-Werner(mojombo) is not affiliated with GitLab. Our CTO Dmitriy 'DZ' Zaporozhets started GitLab and is spearheading critical parts, including the integration of the Gemnasium team. But more than any one individual it is more a collaboration between 1900 contributors http://contributors.gitlab.com/

Yea I phrased it oddly, but you basically answered it. Thanks for the great product though.

> But more than any one individual it is more a collaboration between 1900 contributors

On this line, as someone who has participated in building companies, software (some open some closed) for many years now, my hope is that one day we will get to a state in our societies so that the majority of companies can be decentralized, collectively owned, collaborative undertakings, where everyone is a shareholder.

I think we took a big step in this direction with the emergence of open source collaborative projects and the decentralized planning that comes with it, and the invention of smart contracts, the blockchain, and cryptocurrencies, but we still have a long ways to go, especially on the legal bureaucratic and risks end of things.

External files in CI looks nice!

Thanks! It is the first significant paid CI feature and we're happy that people see the need for it.

Tip of the day: wait for 10.5.1 which fixes a regression! https://about.gitlab.com/2018/02/22/gitlab-10-5-released/#ba...

Hello!

One small comment about this webpage on Firefox mobile: in portrait mode the page shows correctly, but in landscape mode the header + the message inviting visitors to try GitLab EE take about 50% of the screen, which makes the page a bit annoying to read.

I think visitors should be able to get rid of the message and the header should be made non sticky or a least way smaller if you really like those sticky headers.

I guess landscape 1080p is considered as a regular computer there, but this is false in my case.

Thanks for making GitLab, this is what I currently use for my projects.

Thank you for raising this! Can you please open an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com and specify your android device and firefox version? That would greatly help us in tracking down the bug and solve it

I like the push to create project feature. Lowers the barrier to entry that much more when I can just take a repo and push it without having to think about config & setup beforehand.

it's a nice feature to have but adding a repo via the web interface didn't take more than a few seconds at most. not quite sure what config & setup you are referring to other than the name of the repo, not a whole lot of other things need to be specified, if any.

Not OP but anything that makes the process smoother is good IMO :)

There are 2 hard problems in programming: - Cache invalidation - Naming things - Off by 1 errors.

This solves 50% of the problem. By not having to think about names, nor about clicking around in the UI all I have to think about is code and deploy.

Gitlab does great for most things but, the only thing I have on my Gitlab wish list is email anonymization like Github has.

Do you mean https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-commit-email-a... ? Would you mind creating an issue for it since I can't find one yet https://www.dropbox.com/s/52lh6hvgf0pb62s/Screenshot%202018-...

Yes, that's exactly the feature that I'm thinking of. It's one of the main reasons I don't use Gitlab right now.

Thanks, we will list the issue for this under missing features https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...

I can't see tags for what's CE and what's EE. Does that mean that everything is EE here?

Libre/Starter/Premium/Ultimate are the names of plans for our distributions. CE and EE are distributions of GitLab. CE has _only_ FOSS code in it for users (e.g. self-hosting open source projects) who don’t want to run any proprietary code whatsoever. Libre features are any features that are in the CE distribution by default.

The Free/Bronze/Silver/Gold plans are for GitLab.com specifically (all open source projects get Gold features by default).

For more background an overview is available at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketin...

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