Gitlab 11.8 Released
Congrats on the new release!<p>Since GitLab for Education was announced I&#x27;ve been trying to get our college signed up for it, but it&#x27;s been difficult so I was hoping I might be able to share some GitLab for Education Requests:<p>Working in a community college it&#x27;s been really tricky to get the agreement signed for us to take advantage of this at all (that&#x27;s more of an issue with the way we work in particular, but I just wanted to throw it out there that it would be nice if we could sign up for the licenses completely online without needing to wait and get an agreement signed because for example our president doesn&#x27;t want to do an esignature so that means sending it over to their office for signature, waiting a long while, getting it back, and then finding out our deadline passed and haven&#x27;t to try it all over again so if that process could be changed, or better yet removed, that would be great).<p>Related to the GitLab for Education license limitations...I originally though the Education licensing would cover usage for our IT Department staff as well, but it definitely seems to be limited to just Faculty&#x2F;Staff type usage which ends up being a bummer for us since now I can&#x27;t promote it anymore internally with us a free option we can sign up for anymore and other ideas I was potentially thinking of (the Group Issue Boards seemed like it could potentially be a nice way to organize Kanban Boards across the college and make it so that staff from other areas outside of IT could make use of Kanban Boards too...we&#x27;ve been using Kanboard inside of IT for a few years now, but haven&#x27;t made a strong push to have other departments use it). In terms of affordability, that would limit us to licensing GitLab primarily for IT stuff only + for 10 users that&#x27;s already going to be a pretty big cost for our small college &#x2F; IT department.<p>Lastly, I know there&#x27;s Wiki functionality and GitLab Pages already and that can be used for documentation to a degree, but is there any work towards building&#x2F;including some sort of Confluence alternative into GitLab as well?<p>Right now we&#x27;d like start using some sort of nice, comprehensive documentation option, but I&#x27;m not really sold on Confluence at the moment. Admittedly, right now with the info about us needing to license GitLab for our IT department staff as well being fairly new to me that&#x27;s thrown the whole idea of using GitLab out the window (almost), but the lack of a Confluence option built-in to GitLab would be another potential blocker for us (I do like the idea of having everything all under one system if possible to simplify usage for us).<p>tldr: If you can make edu licensing completely free (for staff too) and simple to use&#x2F;signup for (without an agreement needing to be signed), plus add a Confluence alternative that would be awesome!