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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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Post by sitharus »

carussell wrote: post #92
johannes1234321 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you also didn't work on the kernel, the community where git came from ;) There you have to attach the patch to a weird e-mail and hope somebody picks it up. But it's true - a pull system is nice for drive-by contributions. In some projects I noticed that after being listed in GitHub (be it as mirror or primary place) the number of contributions improved, but also many low-quality contributions came in.

> a pull system is nice for drive-by contributions Did you mean a patch system? With a patch, you just send upstream the patch, and you're done. Pull-based syncing is good for (and was designed for) frequent collaborators. As a one-time contributor doing pull requests, after you've cloned the repo and made your changes, you have to set up some public remote so that others can pull from, push up your changes to that r…

That’s a super complicated way of describing ‘push the fork button’. You really don’t have to worry about all of that.

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

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Post by johnnycarcin »

dalore wrote: post #98
akerro wrote: post #6

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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.

People/companies go to GitHub to be social. It's the Facebook of computer code. That's why all the big players are there, so they can share/market themselves. It's also where a lot of programmers put their code so they can show it for interviews. That's why there are so many public repositories there.

Totally agree with this. This is the reason that I self-host with Gitea but mirror everything to Github.I essentially use Github as a forwarder to my Gitea instance.

However, I have seen a drastic decrease in interaction (PRs, issues, etc) with my self-hosted repos even though you can auth with your Github credentials.

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

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Post by compuguy »

dominotw wrote: post #33
glutamate wrote: post #10

> 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.

I bought this up on HN in the past[1], but it gets instantly downvoted( by gitlab employees?) , my comment was a response to CEO claiming how their marketing is honest[2]. They also declared Gitlab CI as number one CI by excluding Jenkins because of their made up defintion of "modern" . 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15590240 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589654

Last time I checked Jenkins is a modern CI product.

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

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Post by shmerl »

teddyh wrote: post #105
shmerl wrote: post #95

I'd really appreciate Web based way of Debian bug reporting. It doens't need to replace the current one, I suppose they can make some Gitlub plugin for e-mail method.

GitLab is not replacing DebBugs, it is replacing Alioth .

It could compliment it, not replace may be.

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

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Post by bluGill »

regularfry wrote: post #31
pizza234 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-host…

The way I see it going is that many, many large companies will have a bunch of teams on GitHub (with good reason), with both public and private repos. They will also have a bunch of teams on GitLab instances that have been wildcatted into existence, possibly before GitHub had decent inroads, but more probably so the code doesn't leave the firewall. At some point, a Boss who may or may not have Pointy Hair will look a…

Money is not the only factor. IT informs me that we are getting great support from github for our enterprise instance. As a user I have no clue what support means, but the people in IT are the ones getting that help.

So long as gitHub provides value we will stay there. Support is worth it when several thousand developers get an unplanned paid vacation every time a server goes down (of course git is distributed so the a few minutes of downtime will affect nobody, but much more than that and people notice).

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

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Post by kochthesecond »

WD-42 wrote: post #67

As someone who has attempted to contribute to the GNOME project, this makes me super happy. The current process is archaic: attaching patch files to weird bug trackers and then sorta just waiting for someone to get back to you... A proper pull request system with code review would lower the barrier of entry for contributions to these projects significantly.

Absolutely. There is a near hundred hour startup cost to get into helping gnome, so making this process simpler should really be prioritized.
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