On a serious note, wtf Gitlab? Every once in a while I get an email notification from a feature request I subscribed to (that has been open for years) because yet another large premium customer requests that it be implemented. Gitlabs response is always that they don't have capacity/manpower to implement it, yet they're able to implement crap like this?
Why Gitlab Duo : AI :sparkles:Every company seems to be throwing their backlog away and focusing on adding AI features no one asked for. Could be a lot of opportunity for startups that actually listen to their end users to gain some traction instead of chasing GenAI.
This made me actually look into it instead of just complaining on the internet. The feature I was referring to was the Conan package repository[1]. Apparently, Forgejo implemented support for that already[2], as well as other features that originally drew me to Gitlab in the first place.
I think it may be time to consider switching.
They've spent the last years building stuff I don't care while not improving the stuff I care. During this period, GitHub built Actions.
Nowadays GitLab is more expensive than GitHub (GitLab Premium vs GitHub Enterprise) while also not having any particular feature that makes me want to use it over GitHub. If I was starting a software team today, there is no reason I'd be using GitLab.
In the long term their strategy of having too many half assed features might bite back instead of generating revenue streams.
Broadcom-like companies (monopoly) and Google-like companies (you are the product bla bla bla) are exeptions though.
I'll put money on it that Enterprise customers asked for this. The half-assed part, I can't comment on.