Just want to say thanks for your work! Looking at these slides I really appreciate the openness and the effort you put into gitlab. I'm running a small instance and it's been a total hassle-free experience so far, every issue I had was documented or had a ticket with details to figure it out!
Your education pricing is also stellar, once I got more users I'll look into migrating to EE (at the moment CE+CI is more than fine).
Was happy to see 8.9 downloading on apt upgrade today, not a lot of project updates induce such a reaction, it's usually fear ;) but gitlab never broke on me!
Okay, this comment starts to sound like some paid troll comment for cherishing you but I'm really happy.
Well one nitpick though: I'd love to see some love for the Wiki - it's usable but not up to scratch - asciidoc doesn't really work well and I'm missing something like recent changes and some page tree. I guess it's gollums fault but either better documentation for the workflows or improvements there would be very welcome! Having a great usable Wiki would set gitlab apart in a positive way IMHO.
> We've been using static websites a lot ourselves instead of wiki's pages.gitlab.io
Sure I can understand that it's not a priority but I don't think wiki and static pages have to exclusive - we have a lot of non-technical users and e.g. pushing a static version of the wiki to gitlab pages would ease creation of documentation, so users can use the editor and markdown and the preview to write the wiki and everything gets rendered into some nice static content.
It's basically what you can do now with a regular repository but sometimes it's nice to have docs and code separated.
I'm afraid users don't have the time/opportunity to try the same service over and over again. If a service didn't work for them, it's mostly sure that they're not coming back.
