patricksanders's comments

On: Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

[patricksanders]

Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see how it is.

[sytse → patricksanders]

GitLab CEO here, I would love to know what kind of heavy is the problem you're experiencing, hard to setup? hard to upgrade? cpu/ram/disk usage? too many features?

[est → sytse]

Mostly, RAM problem. We have a budget server with 1G RAM, had to restart Gitlab everyday, otherwise we get constant 500 errors.

[sytse → est]

I'm sorry to hear that. Just checking, have you added 1GB of swap? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/inst...

[drewmate → sytse]

How do people find and respond to any mention of their company on HN? I get why you'd want to, it's fantastic PR to seem/be so engaged with your users, but where do you find the time? Is there some monitoring service that notifies you whenever any keyword is mentioned on social media?

[thebouv → drewmate]

2 ways:

1) This thread is about a kinda-competitor to GitLab, so maybe he was just here reading it.

2) There are monitoring services like: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/675/post-message-slack-when-...

[sytse → drewmate]

Thanks for appreciating our effort. Responding takes a lot of time but it is a lot of fun as well. We use http://notify.ly/ to ping us in a Slack channel to be able to respond fast, highly recommended.

[bahaagalal → sytse]

Thanks for recommending notify.ly ^^. Much appreciated :). Bahaa CTO of Notify

[sytse → bahaagalal]

Thanks, great service, nice to see you here on HN.

[icebraining → drewmate]

Here's an RSS feed of all HN comments: http://hnrss.org/newcomments

Add it on a decent reader, filter for the word "GitLab", and you're done.

[thecatspaw → drewmate]

mention.com does that

[SunShiranui → sytse]

I've been thinking about buying a Raspberry Pi 2 to run Gitlab on it. Do you think it is feasible or will the performance be too bad for normal use? I'll be hosting about 2-3 repos with 4 users on it.

[sytse → SunShiranui]

Thanks for considering GitLab. That will work, please see https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2... for more information.

[m4tthumphrey → patricksanders]

Do you mind if I ask why you think it's "heavy" ? I've been using it for about 3 years now and think it's an awesome tool. It's done me very proud at two different companies, as well as a personal install.

On: Python 2, Python 3, Debian and Porting

[patricksanders]

Absolutely. I've been looking for a good place to start contributing, so this is very opportune.

On: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

[patricksanders]

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder. An interesting peek into some of the data gathered by OkCupid, as well as an overall assessment of the power of data held by tech companies today.