I've been a big proponent of GitLab but this doesn't look at all good.
I work at a consultancy and the word over the past day from many of our clients after hearing this is that they're now looking to move off GitLab.
Going from $5.20AUD/user/month to $24.50AUD/user/month would be a huge price increase, especially when most of them only needed a paid license just to enable the MR approvals feature.
One of them has around 300 users, this will change their bill from around $18,000/yr to a $88,000/yr.
I understand they were losing money on Bronze subscriptions, but I'm hoping they did consider other options such as potentially scaling back some of the (many) features that are baked into the platform. For example out of the many GitLab installs I've seen - I've not once seen anyone use or care about the Kubernetes/Infa orchestration and monitoring features. From what I can tell people mostly care about MRs and the workflow around them, CI/CD, Security Scanning, code Issues and Kanban and Wiki functionality.
I feel like as a product - it's trying to do too much and really what most people want is an alternative to Github, Jira and Confluence.
I work at a consultancy and the word over the past day from many of our clients after hearing this is that they're now looking to move off GitLab.
Going from $5.20AUD/user/month to $24.50AUD/user/month would be a huge price increase, especially when most of them only needed a paid license just to enable the MR approvals feature.
One of them has around 300 users, this will change their bill from around $18,000/yr to a $88,000/yr.
I understand they were losing money on Bronze subscriptions, but I'm hoping they did consider other options such as potentially scaling back some of the (many) features that are baked into the platform. For example out of the many GitLab installs I've seen - I've not once seen anyone use or care about the Kubernetes/Infa orchestration and monitoring features. From what I can tell people mostly care about MRs and the workflow around them, CI/CD, Security Scanning, code Issues and Kanban and Wiki functionality.
I feel like as a product - it's trying to do too much and really what most people want is an alternative to Github, Jira and Confluence.