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GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by LyndsySimon »

sytse wrote: post #60
LyndsySimon wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started a new project recently, and put it on Gitlab instead of GitHub. I'm very pleased so far, and have been finding reasons to justify encouraging others to move projects there as well.

I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

First and foremost for me are protected branches. For everywhere I've worked, giving someone commit access to the main repository means giving them the ability to rewrite history on the release branch as well. GitLab solves that nicely by allowing committers to append only to protected branches by default.

I'm also warming to the idea of treating CI as "pipelines", and find myself thinking of tooling more in that way.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by LyndsySimon »

ohstopitu wrote: post #67

I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .

I've yet to find something I needed that wasn't supported - or that there wasn't a better option available that did support it.

TravisCI for instance, is easily replaced in all of my projects with Gitlab's integrated CI.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by newsat13 »

caio1982 wrote: post #6

"Next piece of wow: we will be open sourcing all of the Gitter" The Gitlab folks really know how to do it. It is of course the rational approach to it, but still, that's a bold move.

I think open sourcing here just shows that the code is irrelevant and is not the money maker. I guarantee you nobody is moving off slack because gitter is "open source". People might move to gitter because is it integrated into gitlab self-hosted though (this is what will happen and mattermost will be phased out despite what they say).

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by scrollaway »

suprememoocow wrote: post #43
nerdponx wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do we know what protocol Gitter runs on top of?

Gitter uses a proprietary websocket protocol built on top of the Bayeux protocol: https://docs.cometd.org/current/reference/ More details can be found on the developer site: https://developer.gitter.im/docs/faye-endpoint We also have an open-source IRC bridge: https://github.com/gitterHQ/irc-bridge

I prefer matterbridge :) Supports more than IRC, and supports multiple gateways at once: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by j_s »

LeFever wrote: post #64
oblio wrote: post #35

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They definitely have a very interesting strategy, one that is well suited to their target market (= programmers). They're probably the most open company I've seen. Still, I can't justify moving off GitHub, for now. Gitlab has some growing left to do, especially on the SaaS part. Still, good luck to them :-)

Having never used GitLab, what do you mean by growing from a SaaS perspective?

Performance of repos on GitLab.com https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by StavrosK »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #71
sytse wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very glad to hear that. What are the reasons that you think will encourage others?

First and foremost for me are protected branches. For everywhere I've worked, giving someone commit access to the main repository means giving them the ability to rewrite history on the release branch as well. GitLab solves that nicely by allowing committers to append only to protected branches by default. I'm also warming to the idea of treating CI as "pipelines", and find myself thinking of tooling more in that way…

GitHub has that too, I noticed the other day. I still think Gitlab is much better, and use it by default for everything new, but fair's fair :P

I love the integrated CI, though, and the use cases it enables. I love that I can just make a pipeline that lints, tests and compiles my code and then, if all of those pass, ends with deploying it to production.

There are many more Gitlab features I like a lot, and the fact that they're all integrated is icing on the cake.

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by suprememoocow »

Dangeranger wrote: post #3

This seems like a good match. I've been helping some early coders in the FreeCodeCamp Gitter and have been impressed with the quality of the app for a company with little capital. They have done a lot with short resources. It would be better in my opinion for small Slack communities to transition to Gitter since Slack has said they do not plan to support large scale free communities in the long term. edit; typo

Thank you Dangeranger! FreeCodeCamp is an incredible community and we've been glad to be able to support them in doing the amazing work that they're doing. Hopefully this announcement will help them go from strength to strength!

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by OJFord »

ohstopitu wrote: post #67

I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind), generally don't integrate with Gitlab It's one of the few reasons why I am still using Github :( .

> I love Gitlab but sadly, quite a lot of services that offer free accounts for open source projects (TravisCI comes to mind)

Isn't there a "but sadly I don't love its CI" missing from the middle of this? Why is Travis the problem?

Re: GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code

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Post by j_s »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #63
Philipp__ wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnating. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users. I haven't seen them promoting that hard as you describe. I wrote my comment of the pure satisfaction with their services and my use case. So stop being ignoran…

Have you actualy used Gitlab? I can't say they are becoming bloated, because they services are of high quality? Have you tried their CI/CD? Github is stagnatingn. Yeah, they are industry standard, but competition is best thing that can happen to them and users. I have. I've installed Gitlab and Mattermost on my own server. Gitlab is great but I found Slack was a better product (over Mattermost). Have you tried instal…

I found Slack was a better product (over Mattermost). Have you tried installing it?

No, please tell me how you installed a Slack server! (j/k, but it's also kind of the point: GitLab wins on-prem)

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