[HN Gopher] Community Contributions at GitLab
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       Community Contributions at GitLab
        
       Author : gtsiolis
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-11-23 21:49 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (community.inc)
 (TXT) w3m dump (community.inc)
        
       | gtsiolis wrote:
       | Great collection of things happening at GitLab around community
       | contributions.
        
       | scopecrestoutls wrote:
       | Heres another link on this same topic, their commitment to
       | "transparency by default"
       | https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/security/transparency-b...
       | Honestly it's really admirable and I have nothing bad to say
       | about them.
        
         | mistercheph wrote:
         | If you have nothing negative to say then why say anything at
         | all
        
       | Xiol32 wrote:
       | Still pissed they dropped their Starter licensing tier. It had
       | all the features above the free version that we needed and cost
       | (I think) $4/user/month.
       | 
       | Then they dropped that tier and forced us to move to the next
       | tier up which was $19/user/month (now $29 it seems?) and filled
       | with features we don't need or want.
       | 
       | Needless to say we're currently in the process of moving to an
       | alternative.
        
         | mindwok wrote:
         | They weren't making any money (and still aren't profitable) at
         | $4 a user.
        
           | Brian_K_White wrote:
           | while producing "features we don't need or want"
        
           | matthewcford wrote:
           | [delayed]
        
       | candiddevmike wrote:
       | I still think we'll see GitLab go source available/BSL within the
       | next year or two.
        
         | BlackjackCF wrote:
         | Can you explain a little more about why you think that?
         | 
         | I'm likely wrong here, but I was under the impression that
         | companies start adopting the BSL when they notice their OSS
         | product is being forked and used by other companies for profit
         | and they want to be able to capture that revenue. I think that
         | makes a lot of sense for tools like Terraform and OSS DBs. I
         | just didn't get the impression that a lot of companies use
         | GitLab in that way? Like, GitLab itself is already easy and
         | free to use, and I don't see anybody chomping at the bit
         | looking to fork it and offer some SaaS product on top of it.
        
         | satya71 wrote:
         | They are open-core, not all their features are open source. No
         | need for them to go BSL.
        
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