GitLab
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Type of site |
Git repository hosting service Collaborative revision control |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | GitLab Inc. |
| Website |
gitlab |
| Alexa rank |
 4,288 (July 2016)[1] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2011 |
| Current status | Online |
| Developer(s) | GitLab Inc. |
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| Stable release |
8.13.6
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| Preview release |
8.14.0-rc3
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| Repository |
gitlab |
| Written in | Ruby |
| Type | Project management software |
| License | MIT License |
| Website |
about |
| Developer(s) | GitLab Inc. |
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| Stable release |
8.13.6
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| Preview release |
8.14.0-rc3
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| Repository |
gitlab |
| Written in | Ruby |
| Type | Project management software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website |
about |
Originally "GitLab" referred to a free repository manager. Today, this name can mean:
- GitLab CE: the software, is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features, using an open source licence.
- GitLab EE: the software, is based on GitLab CE with additional non-free code, using a commercial licence.
- GitLab.com: the web site, is running GitLab EE, offers hosted accounts similar to GitHub.
- GitLab B.V.: the company.
- GitLab Inc.: the new name of the company.
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. As of May 2016, the company has 100 salaried employees[3] and more than 1300 open source contributors.[4] It is used by more than 100,000 organizations including Jülich Research Center, NASA, Alibaba, Invincea, O’Reilly Media, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) and CERN.[5][6][7][8]
History
Originally, the product was named GitLab and was fully free and open source software distributed under the MIT License.[9]
In July 2013,[10] 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[11] adoption of an open core business model. GitLab EE is set under a proprietary license, and contains features not present in the CE version.[12]
In July 2015, the company raised an additional $1.5 million in seed funding.[13] Customers as of 2015 included Alibaba Group, IBM, and SpaceX.[13]
In September 2015, GitLab raised $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures.[14]
In July 2016, the GitLab CEO confirms the open core feature of the company:[15]
Please note that while we think of ourselves as an open source company it would be more accurate to call it an open core company since we ship both the open source GitLab Community Edition and the close source GitLab Enterprise Edition
In September 2016, GitLab raised $20 million in Series B funding from August Capital and others.[16]
See also
References
- ↑ "GitLab.com Alexa Ranking". Alexa Internet. Retrieved July 7, 2016.
- ↑ "GitLab - Omnibus package downloads for GitLab CE". gitlab.com.
- ↑ "GitLab Team Page". GitLab. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ↑ "GitLab CE Code Repository". GitLab.com. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
- ↑ Andrii Degeler (4 June 2014). "GitLab is building a business with 0.1% of paying customers". The Next Web.
- ↑ Washington Post (8 October 2014). "Tech firms cast a wide, and virtual, net for talent". chicagotribune.com.
- ↑ CERN. "Services - CERN or commercial provider?". cern.ch.
- ↑ "Services - GitLab".
- ↑ Drew Olanoff (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.
- 1 2 Novet, Jordan. "Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M". VentureBeat.
- ↑ "Term Sheet — Friday, September 18". Fortune. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ↑ 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 2016-11-03.
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