Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative • Hacker News Board

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by sevensor » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 12:54 PM UTC

neandrake wrote: post #2

If you've been keeping up with HN the past day or so there have been a bunch of great discussion around alternatives [1] Kallithea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17246386 [2] Phabricator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245649 [3] GitTorrent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234498 [4] GitHub Alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241487 [5] Gitea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172…

HN regular Sir_Cmpwn posted about his alternative yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17246719

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by stuntkite » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

eb0la wrote: post #7

IMHO it is not a good time to move out of Github right now. I think Microsoft will offer a bundled developer ecosystem like Atlassian (bitbucket/trello/jira/confluence/pipelines), Amazon (Cloud9/Codecommit/codestar/chime). I bet a bundle with something like skype / github / visual studio / linkedIn Learning... will come soon.

Man, I was hoping they would bundle it with something I wanted.

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by erjjones » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 1:00 PM UTC

GitLab has taken a good amount of funding. Which means they will sell out eventually and the ones concerned about big brother taking over will be right back in this discussion again.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com

Some type of crowd funded federation needs to be created and owned by all of us if we truly want out from under this type of concern.

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by protonimitate » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 1:02 PM UTC

eb0la wrote: post #7

IMHO it is not a good time to move out of Github right now. I think Microsoft will offer a bundled developer ecosystem like Atlassian (bitbucket/trello/jira/confluence/pipelines), Amazon (Cloud9/Codecommit/codestar/chime). I bet a bundle with something like skype / github / visual studio / linkedIn Learning... will come soon.

Agreed.

Jumping ship is a knee jerk reaction to news that hasn't impacted the platform at all yet.

I'm not against trying out other services and encouraging competition in this space, but people are over-reacting just a bit to the news.

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by IpV8 » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 1:03 PM UTC

Bitbucket works but their web interface is slow as hell.

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by hsk823 » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 1:20 PM UTC

stuntkite wrote: post #12

eb0la wrote: post #7

IMHO it is not a good time to move out of Github right now. I think Microsoft will offer a bundled developer ecosystem like Atlassian (bitbucket/trello/jira/confluence/pipelines), Amazon (Cloud9/Codecommit/codestar/chime). I bet a bundle with something like skype / github / visual studio / linkedIn Learning... will come soon.

Man, I was hoping they would bundle it with something I wanted.

ZING

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by wastedhours » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

protonimitate wrote: post #14

eb0la wrote: post #7

IMHO it is not a good time to move out of Github right now. I think Microsoft will offer a bundled developer ecosystem like Atlassian (bitbucket/trello/jira/confluence/pipelines), Amazon (Cloud9/Codecommit/codestar/chime). I bet a bundle with something like skype / github / visual studio / linkedIn Learning... will come soon.

Agreed. Jumping ship is a knee jerk reaction to news that hasn't impacted the platform at all yet. I'm not against trying out other services and encouraging competition in this space, but people are over-reacting just a bit to the news.

Exactly, and with the "moving to Gitlab" comments of the past few days, the switching cost is (at present) still really low. Only once something changes will the need to move increase (if it ever does).

That being said, I've only ever put my repositories on Gitlab because of the free private ones, although the vast majority of libraries I used are on GH.

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by tangue » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 2:15 PM UTC

As a side discussion, it's a good time to push alternatives to git like fossil or mercurial.

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by johann8384 » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

erjjones wrote: post #13

GitLab has taken a good amount of funding. Which means they will sell out eventually and the ones concerned about big brother taking over will be right back in this discussion again. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gitlab-com Some type of crowd funded federation needs to be created and owned by all of us if we truly want out from under this type of concern.

We don't. :)

Re: Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

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Post by veddox » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 2:39 PM UTC

neandrake wrote: post #2

If you've been keeping up with HN the past day or so there have been a bunch of great discussion around alternatives [1] Kallithea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17246386 [2] Phabricator https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17245649 [3] GitTorrent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17234498 [4] GitHub Alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241487 [5] Gitea https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=172…

I have a running GitBucket instance and I must say I can't recommend it, especially not for production. It's good if you just need a private repository somewhere to host your code, but the web interface is not the best and misses features (I'm not even able to create pull requests!). The best thing I can say about it is that it's light on resources, easy to set up and reasonably maintained - which is more than can be said for many other "GitHub alternatives".