Nice. I really like GitLab. Made the move after GitHub started focusing on social justice instead of technology (plus I was tired of the hypocrisy of them making money from OS while keeping all their sources close), and I don't regret it.
Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
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Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#42We've been enjoying GitLab for quite some time now, but I have to say with every new release they always seem to break something critical for us, there seems to be far too many regressions and many of them are not communicated evening with their paying customers - for example the latest one that's been causing us grief: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/1974
Not to be rude, but isn't their software open source? Can't you try and patch it yourself?
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#43Just saw that gitlab now offers free hosting, you only pay for support (only if you want it). Do enough people really pay for support in order to keep gitlab from going under? Free software is one thing, but free hosting? It just blows my mind how they can offer such a thing.
Diskspace and bandwidth are relatively cheap!
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, we don't intent to be vague about this. I hadn't heard of the term openwashing, but I understand the criticism. See also our license for our proprietary GitLab Enterprise Edition: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE And the license for our open source GitLab Community Edition (MIT Expat): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE
> You are free to modify this Software and publish patches. > It is forbidden to copy, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software. You might want to get a lawyer on the phone - because that seems contradicting to me. This is why you should stick with open source licenses that have been vetted by a team of lawyers already. You should check out the AGPL license.
He linked to the enterprise license, not the community license. The CE license is open source, the EE is not.
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#45It's hard to compete against GitHub. I hope they will get some traction so we have an alternative to GitHub once it gets bought by MS (and becomes the next SourceForge).
Is bitbucket considered not a competitor? I've found it quite suitable for anything github does, though I'm at max a 5 person team.
BitBucket is far superior to GitHub. It's not even a question.
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#46Nice. I really like GitLab. Made the move after GitHub started focusing on social justice instead of technology (plus I was tired of the hypocrisy of them making money from OS while keeping all their sources close), and I don't regret it.
Great! Anything you miss, coming from GitHub?
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is, we don't intent to be vague about this. I hadn't heard of the term openwashing, but I understand the criticism. See also our license for our proprietary GitLab Enterprise Edition: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/master/LICENSE And the license for our open source GitLab Community Edition (MIT Expat): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/LICENSE
Well, you are. Let me read to you the definition of Open Source: > Open source software is software that can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone.
Their community edition is open source, no?
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#48Coincidentally, I just installed GitLab to try it out for our small team to replace BitBucket + Jira. And while its more than capable filling Bitbucket shoes the issues subsystem is probably worse than github's and nowhere near flexible as jira.
Most notably: Missing more sophisticated workflows. Search for issues using multiple labels. Search for issues across multiple projects.
We would also love to be able to do simple time tracking against issues.
Is there no reasonably priced product out there that would fit our (rather simple) needs?
Re: Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
#49Nice. I really like GitLab. Made the move after GitHub started focusing on social justice instead of technology (plus I was tired of the hypocrisy of them making money from OS while keeping all their sources close), and I don't regret it.
Great! Anything you miss, coming from GitHub?
Not really for now.
The only thing, which doesn't really depend on you I assume :), is I wish GitLab was used more often as an authentication mechanism by other services. I don't know if GitLab is actually an OpenID provider or if it's just because it's not popular enough yet.