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Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by girvo »

sytse wrote: post #27
matheweis wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the answer - very helpful! Other (unrelated) minor things: - SAML support exists, but at last check was mostly broken. Universities in particular use SAML over OAuth (See http://www.incommonfederation.org/participants/ ) - Resource usage seems very high for small shops; will there be a GitLab "lite"? ...would be especially awesome if it didn't need a mostly dedicated container and could drop in as a subfol…

I'm glad to hear my answer was helpful. Saml support should be pretty good, it was contributed by CERN and they use it in production. Please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/integration/saml.html for documentation. If you encounter a bug please create an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues We will try to reduce memory usage by something like 20% in the coming year. We have package for the Raspberry Pi…

It's really nice to see you plug Gogs like that :) I'm a massive fan of both! They fill different niches I think. You're always super helpful here on HN, too, and I just wanted to let you know that I (and I'm sure others here) appreciate it!

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by mintplant »

alexandrerond wrote: post #30

I'll just jump in to vouch for Gitlab CE, in a self-hosted setup. @sytse: it is one of the best documented and well packaged pieces of software these days. Specially in the Ruby world. Thank you for that. Gitlab really makes a difference. Where others just distribute Docker images or directly nothing (because omg it is too hard to do proper packaging), Gitlab has nice packages for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu (the distr…

There's also a nice GitLab package for Arch Linux:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitlab/

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by zanny »

sytse wrote: post #20
benatkin wrote: post #10

GitLab EE's source code is also available, though not under an open source license. Most of the differences are things I'd like to eventually see in an open source project (maybe GitLab CE, maybe a plugin, maybe a fork). From my perspective the best thing would be for them to eventually open source some features I'd like to have in an open source project hosting service, once they've made more reasons for people to p…

Thanks for your perspective and naming the features you would like to see in GitLab CE. Can I ask what open source project you are considering to host on-premises with GitLab CE? We do try to open source features that are requested by open source projects, such as the branded login page after a HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931690 I agree that falsely accusing people of looking at the EE code w…

One example would be KDE, who considered Gitlab but ended up going with Phabricator because they are one of those 100+ developer projects that wanted the LDAP, analytics, logging, etc but also being a major open source software community wouldn't settle to not dogfood free software, and the CE was missing too much at the time.

Personally, I much prefer Gitlabs project -> code / issues / milestones / etc workflow over Phabricator's git / issues milestones -> projects workflow, and love using Gitlab, but there are a lot of free software communities (Gnome, Freedesktop.org, among others) who are almost certainly going to try moving to more modern project management services in the near future and will be forced away from the IMO best UX Gitlab offers for ones like gogs / phabricator that both sate their needs for a free software solution that also has the featureset for these thousand+ developer ecosystems.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

mintplant wrote: post #72
alexandrerond wrote: post #30

I'll just jump in to vouch for Gitlab CE, in a self-hosted setup. @sytse: it is one of the best documented and well packaged pieces of software these days. Specially in the Ruby world. Thank you for that. Gitlab really makes a difference. Where others just distribute Docker images or directly nothing (because omg it is too hard to do proper packaging), Gitlab has nice packages for CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu (the distr…

There's also a nice GitLab package for Arch Linux: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitlab/

Cool! I see it is on the latest release. BTW Work is underway for a native Debian package, it is weeks away from completion https://poddery.com/posts/2272322

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by mintplant »

sytse wrote: post #27
matheweis wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the answer - very helpful! Other (unrelated) minor things: - SAML support exists, but at last check was mostly broken. Universities in particular use SAML over OAuth (See http://www.incommonfederation.org/participants/ ) - Resource usage seems very high for small shops; will there be a GitLab "lite"? ...would be especially awesome if it didn't need a mostly dedicated container and could drop in as a subfol…

I'm glad to hear my answer was helpful. Saml support should be pretty good, it was contributed by CERN and they use it in production. Please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/integration/saml.html for documentation. If you encounter a bug please create an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues We will try to reduce memory usage by something like 20% in the coming year. We have package for the Raspberry Pi…

Info on the Raspberry Pi 2 distribution is here, if anyone else is interested:

(installation instructions) https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#raspberrypi2

(original blog post) https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2...

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by z1mm32m4n »

I had no idea that GitLab had support for changing what type of commit is created on-merge. That's actually a really temping feature; I've spent so much time trying to convince people (especially those starting out) why manually rebasing and merging is A Good Thing™.

Re: Choose GitLab for your next open source project

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Post by sytse »

mintplant wrote: post #76
sytse wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm glad to hear my answer was helpful. Saml support should be pretty good, it was contributed by CERN and they use it in production. Please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/integration/saml.html for documentation. If you encounter a bug please create an issue on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues We will try to reduce memory usage by something like 20% in the coming year. We have package for the Raspberry Pi…

Info on the Raspberry Pi 2 distribution is here, if anyone else is interested: (installation instructions) https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#raspberrypi2 (original blog post) https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/21/gitlab-on-raspberry-pi-2...

Thanks for adding the links!
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