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GitLab is a Rails app, what did you expect? /s We use gitea (written in Go), it runs well on more modest hardware.
Why the sarcasm? Rails is a pig.
Probably because GitHub is also built on Rails.
GitHub Alternatives
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Re: GitHub Alternatives
#112So much drama, I am really looking forward to what will happen if Microsoft ever gets hold of one of the major Linux distributions.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#113I am a happy gitlab.com user. However, with all of this week's news I decided to see what it would take to run my own GitLab instance. I was surprised to find that on Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user. Any cheaper/smaller instances were to anemic to run GitLab at all. Seems like there are some performance issues to deal w…
> the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user
Maybe the Digital Ocean 1-click install requires this... but GitLab will run on a Raspberry Pi 2[1]... which is pretty darn low specs.
From the GitLab minimum requirements, it basically just needs 1 cpu core, and 1 GB of ram, plus some swap (if you go that low in ram)[2]
[1] https://about.gitlab.com/installation/#raspberry-pi-2
[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#cpu
Re: GitHub Alternatives
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Kill Atom was the most reasonable fear I heard. And I can’t see how that wouldn’t be a well founded fear. If I was Microsoft I wouldn’t want to keep paying devs to make two so similar products (atom, code). They are much more similar than e.g code/vs or github/vsts. But even so: I agree the fear that the product will be worse in a few feels completely irrational. What I can agree with is that it’s unfortunate that it…
Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.
Microsoft uses Electron for VS Code, SQL Operations Studio, Azure Storage Explorer, Teams Desktop, Skype, and many other tools, and it has major traction with Slack, the Github Desktop App, Discord, and many other big companies. It's not going anywhere.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kill Atom was the most reasonable fear I heard. And I can’t see how that wouldn’t be a well founded fear. If I was Microsoft I wouldn’t want to keep paying devs to make two so similar products (atom, code). They are much more similar than e.g code/vs or github/vsts. But even so: I agree the fear that the product will be worse in a few feels completely irrational. What I can agree with is that it’s unfortunate that it…
Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.
They have a bunch of Electron-based products (VS Code, Teams), it's unlikely they'd kill Electron
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#116I looked at lot of these alternatives, not many are eating their own dog food. Does not inspire me with confidence. * https://gitea.io/en-US/ The code for gitea is on Github. https://github.com/go-gitea/ * http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/ The code for gitprep is on Github https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/gitprep * https://gogs.io/ Guess what ..... https://github.com/gogs/gogs
I guess Gogs have an excuse, as they had to host the project somewhere, and perhaps they haven't started dog fooding because of migration difficulties, e.g. the issue tracker.
But I wonder what's the excuse for Gitea as they're a pretty recent Gogs fork?
They're both pretty amazing though: Self-contained binaries and less than 5 minutes setup time, so totally suitable for ad-hoc deployment.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
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Companies aren't evil, they are just a group of people, and so it stands to reason when the leaders of that group have changed then "the company" has changed too. Also what exactly is so bad about MS owning Github? The amount of conspiracy theory on HN is incredible.
> Also what exactly is so bad about MS owning Github? No idea. Especially compared to the other realistic options: Facebook or Google. > The amount of conspiracy theory on HN is incredible. If you think this is bad, I advice you to not investigate the mood down in /r/linux or other similar reddit-subs.
It's surprising that nobody blames Github for selling, they play an equal part in all this. Not to mention that their entire business model is about an acquisition so they had to end up somewhere to stay alive.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#118I looked at lot of these alternatives, not many are eating their own dog food. Does not inspire me with confidence. * https://gitea.io/en-US/ The code for gitea is on Github. https://github.com/go-gitea/ * http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/ The code for gitprep is on Github https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/gitprep * https://gogs.io/ Guess what ..... https://github.com/gogs/gogs
I'd guess that this is more due to the popularity of GitHub among potential contributiors to these projects. I've seen it mentioned many times here on HN that a potential contributor may not want to put in the effort to create an account on another VCS provider or send a patch to a mailing list, whereas submitting a pull request on GitHub is a much less involved process for them, given that they likely already have an account and are familiar with the process.
However you could definitely argue that given that the projects in question are alternatives to GitHub, a developer interested in contributing will likely be invested enough to sign up for the alternative service.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#119I looked at lot of these alternatives, not many are eating their own dog food. Does not inspire me with confidence. * https://gitea.io/en-US/ The code for gitea is on Github. https://github.com/go-gitea/ * http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/ The code for gitprep is on Github https://github.com/yuki-kimoto/gitprep * https://gogs.io/ Guess what ..... https://github.com/gogs/gogs
I guess Gogs have an excuse, as they had to host the project somewhere , and perhaps they haven't started dog fooding because of migration difficulties, e.g. the issue tracker. But I wonder what's the excuse for Gitea as they're a pretty recent Gogs fork? They're both pretty amazing though: Self-contained binaries and less than 5 minutes setup time, so totally suitable for ad-hoc deployment.
He's keeping it real, going with Apache Allura.
Re: GitHub Alternatives
#120These are no alternatives. GitHub is a specialized social network with git hosting included.
But there's no real stickiness there. Developers are not mainstream users who want a dumb UX like Facebook, they're perfectly capable of creating an account (if they don't already have one) and interacting with a project wherever it is.
Most discussions are limited in scope to a project anyway so it's not like you need the whole site. What difference does it make to go visit issues on GitLab vs Github?