[soulnothing]

I've wanted to do a deep dive into Github vs Gitlab for projects. But I'm a bit hesitant to have that on my blog. Unfortunately most places I've been pushing for anything other than Github is not well received.

That being said I've been using GitLab for a several years.

Right now is a perfect example of why I use GitLab. I just started a role, and I'm working to improving pull request and CI/CD visibility. This is automatically baked into GitLab. To the point I just copy a template for all my projects. But now I'm writing a bunch of custom integrations, and talking to a number of different third party services. Even with all the extra work it feels less polished than GitLab.

With Kubernetes, Serverless, and prometheus metrics integration. Gitlab hand's down provides the best visibility into a release or sprint from what I've seen. There are pain points, but I have very little in the way of complaints.

You guys have also been great for the open source community. I got a Gold open source license and am using it for a number of projects.

I've converted a number of people to GitLab, now we just need to find places that will let us use it.

[nuritzi]

It's great to hear you've had a good experience with the GitLab for Open Source Gold license. I'm the new Sr. Open Source Program Manager at GitLab and I'm helping to revamp the program and also want to find new ways to make GitLab even more value for open source projects and orgs.

As a program manager, I'm personally really excited about this year's plans to build out more of GitLab's project management features. I think that once we're able to be more competitive with tools like Jira it will help create more buy-in at companies to adopt a single platform. Let's hope!

Thank you for advocating for GitLab among your spheres of influence, and for being part of the GitLab community! We appreciate it!