The story began in 2011, when Dimitri Zaporozhets, a web programmer from Ukraine, was faced with a common problem. He wanted to switch to Git for version management and GitHub to collaborate, but that was not allowed in his company. He needed a tool that did not hinder him in developing code and was easy to use. Like many developers, he had issues with the collaboration tool that he was obliged to use. To get around those issues, he created his side project in Ruby on Rails: GitLab. Together with his colleague, Valery Sizov, he developed this project alongside his regular work.
After this initiative, the project grew enormously:
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Date |
Fact |
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2011 |
Sytze Sybrandij, the future CEO of GitLab, is impressed by the GitLab project and code, and offers Zaporozhets the opportunity to try to commercialize it via https://about.gitlab.com/. |
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2012 |
GitLab... |
