Gitlab is not the only GitHub alternative

Post by pmelendez » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 4:50 PM UTC

veddox wrote: post #20

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…

Post by toasterlovin » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

itomato wrote: post #33

toasterlovin wrote: post #30

The world has changed a lot since the 90s. Microsoft is a pretty developer-centric company now. People should just chill out and see what happens.

...said the frog in the kettle.

Post by catdog » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 6:58 PM UTC

DarkStar851 wrote: post #35

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 haven't seen it here, but don't forget Gogs! Written in Go, super lightweight and pretty full-featured. https://gogs.io/

Post by binxbolling » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 9:16 PM UTC

pmelendez wrote: post #32

veddox wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>I'm not even able to create pull requests! I am very curious to see the details of this. I use bitbucket in a regular basis and it does provide PR functionality Update: In case someone hasn't found it before: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/create-a-pull-req...

Post by jredmond » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 10:32 PM UTC

wastedhours wrote: post #17

protonimitate wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.