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Hey there, I’m a member of the GitLab Community Relations team. My team is responsible for this page. I shared the page today at a DevRel meetup where OP was presenting on Hacker News. I’m grateful he chose to share it with all of you. Thanks, Dan.

If there are ways we can improve how we engage with the HN community, myself and our team would love your feedback.

I’m here.

Thanks for the feedback. I passed it along to the pipeline authoring team.

+1 - thanks for sharing!

GitLab team member here.

Comment (and code) search is available for projects in all GitLab tiers: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/#basic-search

Premium and Ultimate users have access to Advanced Search: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_search.html

GitLab team member here. Thanks for the kind words. I shared them with our product team. :)

I haven't seen the projects you shared. I'll take a look. Thanks.

Hey there,

I'm on the Community Relations team at GitLab. I'd love to learn more about your experience as a member of the GitLab community.

When you say that opening an issue on GitLab doesn't make you feel part of a community, are you referring issues on one of GitLab's projects (ex: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab) or are you referring to issues on open source projects being hosted on GitLab.com?

Community is very important to us so when there are areas for improvement that feedback is really valued.

GitLab team member here.

Please see this post on the GitLab forum for details how you can determine if your instance has been compromised through the exploitation of CVE-2021-22205: https://forum.gitlab.com/t/cve-2021-22205-how-to-determine-i...

GitLab team member here.

The way to keep up-to-date on critical security updates for GitLab is to sign up for our Security Alerts mailing list: https://about.gitlab.com/company/preference-center/

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28540665 for more detail and links to related issues and MRs.

Do you want to open a Merge Request to propose the change? Would love to have you contribute to GitLab.

GitLab team member here. I'd like to add some additional context to my previous comments [1][2].

Due to a security concern in which a profile containing a file extension would not load [3], we do not allow usernames that end with file extensions (ex: .mov). As noted by many folks here, these are associated with a MIME type but are not MIME types themselves. It is not related to preventing an injection or any such attack vector.

The error message for this check incorrectly included MIME type rather than file extension. This has been updated [4].

Additionally, there was an issue with how the actual check as it did not include the leading dot. The leading dot was added to the check in a subsequent MR [5].

Thanks for all the feedback.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28535739

2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28538166

3 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/26295

4 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70374/...

5 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/65954

GitLab team member here. This issue provides additional context on the changes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/26295

A GitLab team member has opened a merge request to make the error message more clear: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/70374/...

I don't trust myself to do car repairs without Googling the steps or watching YouTube videos. :)

Some things that work for me:

- keep good magazines laying around places where you would normally reach for your phone (near the couch, desk, bed, and let's be honest the bathroom)

- play a musical instrument

- walk my dog

- slow transportation (traveling by foot or bicycle)

- surfing and basketball

GitLab team member here.

We've put a lot of effort into our integration with Jira. The docs [1] detail how it works and we have a blog [2] with some screenshots so you can see what it looks like in action.

What kind of troubles have you encountered?

1 - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jira/

2 - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/25/integrating-gitlab-...

GitLab team member here.

Git is a trademark of Software Freedom Conservancy and our use of 'GitLab' is under license.

GitLab team member here.

Can you share a bit more about the issues you are having? Would be happy to try to help resolve or open an issue if its a bug.

Frankly, I can't provide a detailed answer to those questions.

This tweet from GitLab's CEO provides some additional context: https://twitter.com/sytses/status/1417617071353991169?s=19

Being an all-remote company allows team members to choose to live and work where they want. This benefit provides folks more choices when deciding where to live and work.

That is correct.

Team members who meet the requirements follow our relocation process which is managed by People Operations Specialists.

Team members who do not meet all of the requirements are asked to work with their managers first before bringing the request to the People team.

Agreed. Thanks!

No problem at all. It was a good zinger.

:)

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...

Hey there, I addressed that in this comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27714800

I lead the Developer Evangelism team at GitLab.

Oh, maybe we should add a "Jump to Key Features" button up top. Thanks for the idea!