GitLab

GitLab
Web address gitlab.com
Commercial Yes
Type of site
 Git repository hosting service
Collaborative revision control
Registration Optional
Available in English
Owner GitLab Inc.
Alexa rank
 Increase 5,810 (March 2016)[1]
Current status Online
GitLab Community Edition (CE)
Developer(s) GitLab Inc.
Written in Ruby
Type Project management software
License MIT License
Website about.gitlab.com
GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE)
Developer(s) GitLab Inc.
Written in Ruby
Type Project management software
License Proprietary and money required
Website about.gitlab.com

GitLab, the software, is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features.

GitLab, the company, offers hosted accounts similar to GitHub, but also allows its software to be used on third-party servers.

It is available as an Omnibus package.[2]

The software was written by Dmitriy Zaporozhets from Ukraine; the CEO, Sytse Sijbrandij, is based in Utrecht. The code is written in Ruby. The company has 37 salaried employees and more than 700 open source contributors. It is used by more than 100,000 organizations including Jülich Research Center, NASA, Alibaba, Invincea, O’Reilly Media, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) and CERN.[3][4][5][6]

History

Originally, the product was named GitLab and was fully free and open source software distributed under the MIT License.[7]

In July 2013,[8] the product was split:

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[9] adoption of an open core business model. GitLab EE is set under a proprietary license, and contains features not present in the CE version.[10]

In July 2015, the company raised an additional $1.5 million in seed funding.[11] Customers as of 2015 included Alibaba Group, IBM, and SpaceX.[11]

In September 2015, GitLab raised $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures.[12]

Company

GitLab believes that everyone should be able to contribute, and supports an open philosophy. The company publicly publishes its handbook, including its strategy,[13] direction,[14] and information about the company's history and stewardship of the product.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "GitLab.com Alexa Ranking". Alexa Internet. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ "GitLab - Omnibus package downloads for GitLab CE". gitlab.com.
  3. ↑ Andrii Degeler (4 June 2014). "GitLab is building a business with 0.1% of paying customers". The Next Web.
  4. ↑ Washington Post (8 October 2014). "Tech firms cast a wide, and virtual, net for talent". chicagotribune.com.
  5. ↑ CERN. "Services - CERN or commercial provider?". cern.ch.
  6. ↑ "Services - GitLab".
  7. ↑ Drew Olanoff (13 October 2011). "Ship it faster and cheaper - GitLab is GitHub for your own servers - The Next Web". The Next Web.
  8. ↑ "GitLab - Announcing GitLab 6.0 Enterprise Edition". gitlab.com.
  9. ↑ "GitLab - GitLab Enterprise Edition license change". gitlab.com.
  10. ↑ "GitLab - Features". gitlab.com.
  11. 1 2 Novet, Jordan. "Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M". VentureBeat.
  12. ↑ "Term Sheet — Friday, September 18". Fortune. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
  13. ↑ "GitLab Strategy". gitlab.com. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  14. ↑ "GitLab Direction". gitlab.com. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  15. ↑ "GitLab About Us". gitlab.com. Retrieved 2016-03-21.

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