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As a user of the iOS app it used to have some admittedly frustrating problems, but pretty much every complaint I had previously has since been fixed, huge kudos on the progress you've made!

The only thing left that really bugs me is the fact that you can't paste images from the clipboard into the message field. It's made me change my entire workflow, from copying images to saving them.

Sorry to use this as a soapbox for my pet issue, but I saw the opportunity :P

Libre/Starter/Premium/Ultimate are the names of plans for our distributions. CE and EE are distributions of GitLab. CE has _only_ FOSS code in it for users (e.g. self-hosting open source projects) who don’t want to run any proprietary code whatsoever. Libre features are any features that are in the CE distribution by default.

The Free/Bronze/Silver/Gold plans are for GitLab.com specifically (all open source projects get Gold features by default).

There are no plans to migrate all of GitLab to Go. The main Rails app is going to stay a Rails app for the foreseeable future. There are a few reasons for this. For one it'd be such a huge project, but also Rails is working well for us, it's great for our pace of feature development.

We are working on moving the git layer to Gitaly[0] which is written in Go (and is what this blog post is about). It was one of our major bottlenecks and we've seen a lot of benefit from having made the switch. It's not done yet, but a lot of the calls to git that the application makes are now done through Gitaly.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

For what it's worth, in the last year (since January 23, 2017) we've merged ~440 merge requests labeled "performance"[0]. It's not perfect right now and there's still plenty of work to do, but compared to when I started at GitLab almost two years ago it's night-and-day.

We've also got an entire team dedicated to porting our Git layer to Go with Gitaly[1], which has been a major bottleneck that we've started resolving over the last year or so.

[0] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/merge_requests?label_... [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

When did you try GitLab, and was it self-hosted or GitLab.com? We've been working on improving performance, especially on GitLab.com, for the last two years now. Having started around then I can definitely say it was pretty miserable back then, but it's infinitely better now.

You can see our infrastructure issue tracker for more info on what we've worked on over the last few months and what we're doing now: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues

We have repository mirroring available in GitLab Enterprise Edition Starter, and there exists an issue to move this to CE[0] but it was closed with some explanation as to why[1]. I assume with GitHub Sync you're asking for syncing of more than just the repository, but also issues and merge/pull requests?

The SourceForge sync tool appears to only include release syncing as far as I can tell (the wording is ambiguous and the docs only mention import, not active sync, so I'm not sure what they provide?).

For what it's worth, GitLab does have import tools in CE[2]. You can also use repository mirroring (along with any other Enterprise Edition features) if you're an open source project on GitLab.com.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18732 [1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18732#note_47... [2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html

Their infrastructure tracker has a lot of interesting info about the move[0]. You can also read through the development mailing list, it has a lot of discussion about the GitLab migration.

At GitLab we're tracking the blocking issues they've brought up in this issue[2].

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Infrastructure/issues [1]: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ [2]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35287

Yeah, we've been committed to improving performance and uptime on GitLab.com for over a year now, we've heard this feedback a lot and take it to heart. It's definitely been steadily improving, and we're working on getting downtime-less deploys as soon as possible.

You can see some of the issues tracked in our GitLab.com infrastructure issue tracker here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues (for security reasons not everything is visible to outside users)

They don't load for me either, most likely a problem from when we rewrote most of the about.gitlab.com website last year. I'll look into it, I'm also interested to see what it looked like in 2012 :D

EDIT: It looks like the images are attempting to load from an old Wordpress blog which is no longer around, with a quick search I couldn't seem to find anything with similar file names in the current website repository :(