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Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by drb91 »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #19
chapati23 wrote: post #15

Honest question: Besides more traction among the open source community, where do you feel GitHub is stronger than GitLab? I’m not affiliated with GitLab, however a little biased because we’re using GitLab instead of GitHub at our company. Feature-wise, It seems to me that GitLab is running circles around GitHub. Curious about other opinions.

That's it, the open-source community is there. Performance doesn't really matter when there's tons of amazing projects being hosted in one place. If features were important, Gitlab would be more popular than Github.

Ehh, I think the community would move to a better site if there were distinguishing features. From a source-viewing and code-review perspective, they’re all more or less the same: basic.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by natmaster »

craftyguy wrote: post #12
aneutron wrote: post #8

Why are people jumping ship to lower quality services ? And I'm talking about unrecognizable brand names, because at least migrating to Gitlab or Bitbucket may be understandable in a way, but still an exageration in my opinion.

Because now github is owned by a company that was formerly very hostile to open source software, and this company is magically not.

Steve Ballmer is no longer CEO. Companies are run by people - they are not people.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by oneplane »

MK_Dev wrote: post #9

"A couple of years ago Microsoft was anti-open-source." The quote is from 2001 as is Ballmer's quote. Closing the article due to its lack of objectivity.

Fixing an imago set by a guy calling open-source and Linux 'a cancer' is really hard. The last few years of changes doesn't magically wipe away that bitter taste, and the last 10-20 years doesn't magically make you forget the past.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by eknkc »

chapati23 wrote: post #15

Honest question: Besides more traction among the open source community, where do you feel GitHub is stronger than GitLab? I’m not affiliated with GitLab, however a little biased because we’re using GitLab instead of GitHub at our company. Feature-wise, It seems to me that GitLab is running circles around GitHub. Curious about other opinions.

I like GitHub's UI better. I'm not even sure what is the latest iteration of GitLab UI. They change it in every release and it's a mess. I still can't find stuff.

Also, GitLab is slow. I'm sure that gitlab.com service would not way handle a fraction of GitHub's traffic without a complete rewrite or something like that.

I like GitLab as we have a CE installation that we depend on and I want it to be successful (which it already is I think). However personally it feels worse than GitHub on casual use.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by craftyguy »

natmaster wrote: post #32
craftyguy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because now github is owned by a company that was formerly very hostile to open source software, and this company is magically not.

Steve Ballmer is no longer CEO. Companies are run by people - they are not people.

And what makes you think 1) company culture is no longer a thing and 2) that microsoft won't swing back towards being openly hostile or worse, 'secretly hostile' towards open source software when someone else is at the healm?

I hope time will prove me wrong, but this acquisition is literally the 'embrace' phase of E3. Next comes the 'extend'.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by reificator »

ThatPlayer wrote: post #39

There's also BitBucket's Paid Self-Hosted option, for 10 users, and a one-time payment of 10$. It even has a docker image. https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing?tab=self-hosted https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/bitbucket-server/

For those looking into this option, it is important to note that Bitbucket's self-hosted option is a separate codebase that started with no link to the cloud product.

Previously it was called Stash but was later rebranded to Bitbucket to reduce confusion.

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