[HN Gopher] Community Contributions at GitLab ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-23 23:00 UTC)