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Take this with a grain of salt, perhaps I'm just not in a good headspace for reading this.

The first two paragraphs of the first section (The next iteration of Dev Ops) reads like it was written by someone at Gartner trying to get my 11 person business to buy a report for $50K that still won't actually tell me if the product will do the things I need it to. I imagine it's exciting for investors, but it made me sad and made me suddenly (and likely unfairly) scared that the features were going to take a back seat to the "placing strongly in several markets".

That being said I read through the feature list and while none are specific things I needed it certainly sounds pretty great. We made the switch from github to gitlab about 4 years ago and I haven't really ran into any major issues or frustrations. So for what its worth after my comment above a BIG thank you to the Gitlab team.

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Thanks for the feedback.

This is the first time we wrote a blog post about a release in addition to the release post we publish each month on the 22nd. (The release post for 14.0 can be found here: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-0-rel...)

We'll keep iterating to make these blog posts more appealing to the wider community in the future.

From a skim read of both blog posts it's still impossible to understand what's actually new in this version. Just introduce the features in the post, no?

I kept stopping at the MVP section (I'm on iOS) but if you keep scrolling you'll eventually get to "Key features released in GitLab 14.0"

If you check out the "Key features" section of the release post, you will find descriptions of all the new features in 14.0: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/06/22/gitlab-14-0-rel...

Ah, that's what I was looking for. Just a suggestion but maybe there should be a direct link to the release notice from the blog post?

Agreed. Thanks!

don't 'iterate' for 'appeal'. just have a passionate dev write shit and we'll eat it up!

Who was your target audience with the blog post?

> like it was written by someone at Gartner trying to get my 11 person business to buy a report for $50K that still won't actually tell me if the product will do the things I need it to

Does that actually happen? Especially the part where businesses are in the market for $50k reports that over-promise and under-deliver?

Real thing that has happened to me, at the time my company (IT consulting / support) was ~10 people (we're ~25 now). A Gartner cold call that wanted to sell me a report that I could use to recommend which cloud storage vendor (box, dropbox, etc.) my clients should use. I explained that we were doing just fine by evaluating which one to used based on which features were more important to that specific client, but he seemed to think having the Gartner rec was critical. I said sure, then asked about the price, once I knew that I was clear that we weren't interested and thankfully he got the message and stopped calling. Maybe this is why my SMB IT company will never make the transition to enterprise clients.

It gave me a pretty jaded view into how those types of reports work. It was hard to not think they are purchased to CYA (internal or external) when you end up recommending the wrong software. I hope that isn't always the case, maybe there is some great content in them, but at 50K I'll never know :)

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