GitLab
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Type of site | Git-repository hosting service Collaborative revision control |
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Available in | English |
Headquarters | San Francisco, United States |
Owner | GitLab Inc. |
Founder(s) | |
Key people | |
Industry | Software |
Employees | 274[1] |
URL | gitlab |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Content license | Expat License (Community Edition)[2], Commercial (Enterprise Edition) |
Written in | Ruby and Go |
Stable release | 10.8
/ May 30, 2018[4] |
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Repository | gitlab |
Written in | Ruby |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Website | about |
GitLab is a web-based Git-repository manager with wiki and issue-tracking features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.
The software was written by Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Valery Sizov. As of December 2016[update], the company has 150 team members[5] and more than 1400 open-source contributors.[6] It is used by organisations such as IBM, Sony, Jülich Research Center, NASA, Alibaba, Invincea, O’Reilly Media, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ), CERN[7][8][9], European XFEL, and SpaceX.[10]
The code was originally written in Ruby, with some parts later rewritten in Go.
History
- Originally, the product was named GitLab and was fully free and open-source software distributed under the MIT License.[11]
- In July 2013,[12] the product was split:
- GitLab CE: Community Edition
- GitLab EE: Enterprise Edition
At that time, the license of GitLab CE and GitLab EE remained free and open-source software distributed under the MIT License.
- In February 2014, GitLab announced[13] adoption of an open-core business model. GitLab EE is set under a proprietary license, and contains features not present in the CE version.[14]
- In March 2015, GitLab acquired Gitorious, a competing Git hosting service. Eventually, the users were encouraged to move to GitLab.
- In July 2015, the company raised an additional $1.5 million in seed funding.[15] Customers as of 2015 included Alibaba Group, IBM, and SpaceX.[15]
- In September 2015, GitLab raised $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures.[16]
- In September 2016, GitLab raised $20 million in Series B funding from August Capital and others.[18]
- In January 2017, a database administrator accidentally deleted the production database, in the aftermath of a cyber attack. Six hours worth of issue and merge request data was lost.[19]
- On March 15, 2017, GitLab announced the acquisition of Gitter. Included in the announcement was the stated intent that Gitter would continue as a standalone project. Additionally, GitLab announced that the code would become open source under an MIT License no later than June 2017.[20]
See also
References
- ^ "GitLab Team".
- ^ "GitLab Community Edition LICENSE file".
- ^ "GitLab.com Alexa Ranking". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ^ "GitLab 10.8 released".
- ^ "GitLab Team Page". GitLab. Retrieved 17 Dec 2016.
- ^ "GitLab Contributors". GitLab.com. Retrieved 17 Dec 2016.
- ^ Degeler, Andrii (4 June 2014). "GitLab is building a business with 0.1% of paying customers". The Next Web.
- ^ CERN. "Services - CERN or commercial provider?". cern.ch.
- ^ "Services - GitLab".
- ^ https://venturebeat.com/2015/07/09/y-combinator-backed-github-competitor-gitlab-raises-1-5m/
- ^ Olanoff, Drew (13 October 2011). "Ship it faster and cheaper - GitLab is GitHub for your own servers - The Next Web". The Next Web.
- ^ "GitLab - Announcing GitLab 6.0 Enterprise Edition". gitlab.com.
- ^ "GitLab - GitLab Enterprise Edition license change". gitlab.com.
- ^ "GitLab - Features". gitlab.com.
- ^ a b Novet, Jordan. "Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M". VentureBeat.
- ^ "GitLab Raises $4M Series A Round From Khosla Ventures". TechCrunch. Retrieved 17 Dec 2016.
- ^ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/14/building-an-open-source-company-interview-with-gitlabs-ceo/
- ^ Miller, Ron. "GitLab secures $20 million Series B". TechCrunch. Retrieved 3 Nov 2016.
- ^ "GitLab.com Database Incident". Retrieved 1 Feb 2017.
- ^ "Gitter is joining the GitLab team". GitLab. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
- ^ "Announcing $20 million in Series C round funding led by GV to complete DevOps". GitLab.
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