If you're starting a company <i>today</i>, would you use Gitlab over it's competitors (Atlassian, GitHub)?<p>And keep in mind, I'm not talking about specifically using GitLab for "git". I mean, what technology stack would you use for:<p>- Issue tracking<p>- VCS<p>- Developer Chat<p>- CI/CD<p>- Project Boards / Project Management<p>I actually just asked this question today [1] but didn't get much of a response.<p>I know Atlassian is not properly but for a fully stack software development experience, it seems like my only true options are either GitLab or Atlassian (not GitHub).<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394123" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14394123</a>
Thanks for all your amazing hard work guys and gals, really truly appreciate all the effort that's been going into making GitLab releases faster, reliable and all the new features that have been coming out, especially around Issues and CI.<p>I upgraded our dev and then prod environments not after the announcement without a hitch.<p>Keep up the good work!
One of the things I like most about Gitlab, is the steady releases and improvements by small doses, making it easy to auto-upgrade and adapt as we go (with the occasional internal announcement: "hey, you can now do X in Gitlab, have fun"). I've used JIRA/Atlassian, Github and Redmine a lot, and by far, I like Gitlab the most.<p>My only point of friction, which is being worked on, but will presumably take some time: no internationalization of the user interface (UI translation). I manage two instances of Gitlab: one for our shop (where we communicate with clients), another for a large-ish free software project (with hundreds of people from all skills and all languages). We (obviously) try to take any step we can do to remove friction with tools, but language is an important factor that we often under-estimate.
Very excited about official gitlab Helm charts! Awesome work.<p>Just tried it out and was hit by the `gitlab` service not starting due to: "PersistentVolumeClaim is not bound, which was unexpected."<p>Shame, I'll try it in a few releases and see if it's improved.