I’m Nat Friedman, Future CEO of GitHub. AMA

Post by glandium » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

overcast wrote: post #104

notatoad wrote: post #48

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My sense is that any projects willing to move from GitHub to gitlab on a Sunday evening because of a rumour that GitHub was going to be sold were not really serious projects and losing them isn't a big loss for GitHub.

I'd consider Gnome a pretty serious product. https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/05/gnome-moves-to-gitlab-2/ ok. so they weren't on github. GOSH!

Post by walki » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 8:35 PM UTC

overcast wrote: post #104

notatoad wrote: post #48

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My sense is that any projects willing to move from GitHub to gitlab on a Sunday evening because of a rumour that GitHub was going to be sold were not really serious projects and losing them isn't a big loss for GitHub.

I'd consider Gnome a pretty serious product. https://www.gnome.org/news/2018/05/gnome-moves-to-gitlab-2/ ok. so they weren't on github. GOSH!

Post by gaius » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 8:43 PM UTC

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Do they? Are they backed by capital pushing for an “Exit”, and even if so, couldn’t an IPO be a viable option?

They’ve taken a big pile of VC funding, so the answer to your first question is yes. Meanwhile, the biggest player (by far) in the market just abandoned dreams of an IPO. Gitlab is a distant third place in that market, and has a revenue model that is best described as “like Github, but cheaper.” IPOs are only viable if you have a business capable of supporting them.

Post by YorickPeterse » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 8:44 PM UTC

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jameslk wrote: post #11

> That said, the GitHub team reports that the set of users who have migrated or closed their accounts is extremely small, and this is more than made up for by the surge of new signups and new interest in GitHub this week. It's interesting to hear this. If you were on HN the past week, it might have seemed from all the front page articles that GitHub was about to implode due to an an exodus to GitLab.

I think most people mirrored instead of closing. Spin.

Post by dcolebatch » Thu, Jun 07, 2018, 8:46 PM UTC

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It's not unexpected. Serious projects need more than a few days to move off Github; and there's some overlap between HN users and users who would move their tiny projects off Github on a Sunday afternoon. That being said, it's way too early to tell how this will evolve trust-wise. Microsoft has a tremendous deficit of trust in the open source community. Younger folks probably don't realize how deep it runs; most of m…

Has Gitlab finished their hosted migration from Azure to Google's cloud yet? They announced they were starting in April, but those things take time.