On: Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab

[sytse]

I'm sorry to hear you're not satisfied with GitLab and I would love to know more.

1. What things did you have to tweak?

2. Did you try our Omnibus packages for upgrades? It should be just apt-get upgrade https://twitter.com/J_Salamin/status/687884326629937152

3. What features of EE belong in CE in your opinion?

[rcarmo → sytse]

1. For starters (besides other internal stuff), we were the guys who needed Shibboleth support. You might recall there were a few pull requests from a colleague of mine regarding that :)

2. No, we had to tweak the source, so I don't think the packages were useful.

3. Static pages, hooks and merge approvals would be right at the top of my list. Audits would be nice to have, but we figured out how to do that on our own.

Also, issue handling needs some improvement. We just couldn't map our Trac workflow to it - but that's a fairly longer story, and it would probably be the same if we used GitHub.

[sytse → rcarmo]

Thanks for your reply and for contributing code.

1. Shibboleth is now supported in the Omnibus packages https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inte...

2. Hopefully you can use the packages now that the Shibboleth code is merged.

3. GitLab Pages, git push hooks, merge request approvals and audit logs are available in EE.

[jorams → sytse]

Note that point 3 was an answer to the question

> What features of EE belong in CE in your opinion?

which means rcarmo knows they're in EE, but thinks they belong in CE.

[sytse → jorams]

OK, thanks.