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Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by Samis2001 »

It would be even better if Kallithea or RhodeCode adopted the UI style shared by GitHub/Gogs/Gitea and friends. Then we could have the best of both worlds - good, well-known UI but with software that isn't as closely coupled to Git as some others are (and is lightweight with requirements)

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by mikekchar »

everdev wrote: post #12

Isn't GitLab a self-hosted alternative to GitHub?

Yes. But it's not the only one.

I think the question you were hoping to have answered is, "Why would you pick this over GitLab?". And potentially the discussion you wanted to invoke was, "Is there an advantage to going with a full free software solution as opposed to a product that is primarily proprietary, but has an open core?"

Personally, I think there is, but in the case of GitLab it may not matter. Now that there are some free software heavy hitters (Gnome and Debian) who rely on the open core of GitLab, there is some more assurance that this open core will not become a kind of cripple-ware try-before-you-buy situation. Those groups have enough horse power to maintain the open part of GitLab if they choose to do so.

Having said that, I think there is room for other free software entries in this space and I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out. In some ways the acquisition of GitHub may be the catalyst necessary to get things started, and I think it's a good thing.

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by qmarchi »

copremesis wrote: post #15

I'm surprised out of all the drama surrounding M$ purchase of GitHub I haven't seen many mentions of BitBucket https://bitbucket.org/ I've been using this for years now since you get free private repos.

The biggest complaint that I've seen against bitbucket is the ties to Atlassian and the fact it is a closed source product. Most of the ones featured here are some form of open source or open core for GitLab.

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by paulryanrogers »

copremesis wrote: post #15

I'm surprised out of all the drama surrounding M$ purchase of GitHub I haven't seen many mentions of BitBucket https://bitbucket.org/ I've been using this for years now since you get free private repos.

Last I looked it was limited to 5 users. Gitlab on the other hand offers unlimited users and limited repo size: 10G.

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by _wmd »

copremesis wrote: post #15

I'm surprised out of all the drama surrounding M$ purchase of GitHub I haven't seen many mentions of BitBucket https://bitbucket.org/ I've been using this for years now since you get free private repos.

pre-Atlassian BitBucket was a lovely app, then they landed that Web 9.0 JS abomination redesign. Because waiting 30 seconds for uncached Javascript assets to load while on the clock is totally acceptable, when all you really need is 500 bytes worth of a Git directory listing to render.

Left feedback, no response. Left feedback again, still no response. Moved everything to GitLab.

It's really hard to see great apps like this (and Reddit as a more recent example) destroyed by.. seemingly.. people given too much time to do their jobs. I'm not a front end guy, but the feeling I get is that it has the same problem as backend. Can't just cobble a few well-tested Django views together any more, must have a 16-microservice mess to ensure the CV is fully padded. Makes me so sad

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