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Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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> GitLab, a software product used by 2/3 of all enterprises, ... This claim is false. The linked survey shows that GitLab has a 2/3 market share in self-hosted Git providers. Not every enterprise self-hosts a git repository.

Why let the truth get in the way of a good press release!? /s

You're saying it's a falsehood and Nicole Plati, our media contact, gave alternative facts to that.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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I don't actually understand this. Are they referring to the agreements for contributing to GitLab itself, or for contributing to things hosted on GitLab, which surely have nothing to do with the hosting at all?

Yeah, I'm not sure what they mean by "migrate their communities". I'm not exactly real clear on "... and open source projects" either. Debian used to use Alioth [0] pretty extensively. Maybe they're getting rid of that and moving everything that was on there to GitLab. I get that this is a press release but it could be a bit more informative, IMO. [0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth

I follow the debian devel list and yes they are moving away from alioth

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #9

I don't actually understand this. Are they referring to the agreements for contributing to GitLab itself, or for contributing to things hosted on GitLab, which surely have nothing to do with the hosting at all?

Yeah, I'm not sure what they mean by "migrate their communities". I'm not exactly real clear on "... and open source projects" either. Debian used to use Alioth [0] pretty extensively. Maybe they're getting rid of that and moving everything that was on there to GitLab. I get that this is a press release but it could be a bit more informative, IMO. [0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth

That's exactly what the link you pasted says - Debian is closing Alioth and migrate to using gitlab.

No automatic migration is planned - you need to migrate the repos you are responsible for yourself.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #9

I don't actually understand this. Are they referring to the agreements for contributing to GitLab itself, or for contributing to things hosted on GitLab, which surely have nothing to do with the hosting at all?

Yeah, I'm not sure what they mean by "migrate their communities". I'm not exactly real clear on "... and open source projects" either. Debian used to use Alioth [0] pretty extensively. Maybe they're getting rid of that and moving everything that was on there to GitLab. I get that this is a press release but it could be a bit more informative, IMO. [0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth

The Debian project has been investigating several alternatives to Alioth's version control functionality. I have not 100% kept up on the discussion, but I think gitlab is either selected for sure or is a leading candidate. https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/GitNext

Even if they adopt gitlab for version control and pull requests, it's a very misleading headline that the "debian community" will be migrated to gitlab.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why let the truth get in the way of a good press release!? /s

You're saying it's a falsehood and Nicole Plati, our media contact, gave alternative facts to that.

There's a very big difference between "2/3 of all enterprises" (press release) and "a 2/3 market share in self-hosted Git providers" (glutamate, above).

I've been a fan of GitLab's for quite a while (mostly due to your transparency; I just created an account a few weeks ago to try it out) but -- unless you are claiming that GitLab is being used by two-thirds of "all enterprises" -- this is very misleading, IMO.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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I can't help to think that Gitlab is more and more eating Github's lunch. I wonder why we see so little from Github to get out of that situation.

It's not so easy. Which lunch are you talking about? Self-hosted or hosted?

I don't think GL will ever have anything much in the hosted sector, for two main reasons:

1. GH's infrastructure is far ahead of GL, and 2. the social factor also affects companies that have private repositories, but also public ones - it wouldn't make sense to only move the private repositories to save money

When we think about the self-hosted, then it's possible, but I'm not sure if that would significantly affect GH, which has a different business model.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because github still has 99% of that market. Just look at how many repositories opened by Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, NSA, GCHQ and 100s of others big players are on Github and how many on Gitlab.

Yes but how many of those are just mirrors and sources for non-contributors to find the code. See Linux Kernel as an example, the Kernel is mirrored on GitHub but none of the actual development takes place there.

I don't think it's about mirror of source code being there, I think it's more about a community of people and developers being able to report issues there. Eg. steam client is not opensource, but it has github repo where we report distro/Xorg/Wayland/libs related issues, and they often respond.
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