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Xfce switches to GitLab

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Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by j4yav »

root_axis wrote: post #73
SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #9

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Does anyone else have things that make the switch from GitHub to GitLab a hard sell? I'm always curious why open source projects don't embrace an open platform, although I get that GitHub is fantastic in a lot of ways. I'm guilty of it myself, but I've reached the 50/50 GL/GH split as I try using GL more.

Gitlab CI pipeline was a deal breaker for our organization. Lots of UI bugs, quite a few issues with CI nodes hanging, and ultimately their yaml job configuration system turned out to be too constrained for our needs. We eventually switched back to github and jenkins. This was more than a year ago though, so I expect some of those issues have improved during that time.

Product director for CI/CD here - we have tried to focus on improvements around making more complex pipelines easier to manage, but I would love to hear what you ran into just to make sure we are closing the loop on all the important ones.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

oweiler wrote: post #26
rhn_mk1 wrote: post #24

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I can confirm, this is the exact reason I made two copies of (shameless plug) the SpicaStack project earlier this month. GitHub's reach, network and stars help fellow devs and users discover our forks, while GitLab's exportability and amazing CI will let us actually work on it.

How do you keep the repos in sync?

I use GitLab as the primary source, and mirror it to GitHub.

Or, I would have, if the builtin GitLab mirroring feature wasn't broken for pushing to GitHub.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by thegeekpirate »

ta17711771 wrote: post #71
Talanes wrote: post #62

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Honestly you don't need any particular skills to install Arch. Just time and access to the instructions. It's a neat way to spend an afternoon once, but I just switched to Manjaro too on future installations,

In my other comment, s/Arch/Manjaro , sorry.

You can either edit your other comment, or delete and recreate it if too much time has passed.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by licebmi__at__ »

lillecarl wrote: post #67
Talanes wrote: post #62

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Honestly you don't need any particular skills to install Arch. Just time and access to the instructions. It's a neat way to spend an afternoon once, but I just switched to Manjaro too on future installations,

I'm one of those that when I fiddle with something I really wanna know what I'm doing too,so my arch installation would probably take weeks (and I'd learn a lot). Soon-ish™

If you already know the basics, you won't find too much surprising stuff. That's actually the reason I like Arch, whenever I wanted to customize something, I would find the steps in other distros more esoteric and made with a lot of assumptions, in that regard Arch seems simpler to me.

If you want to investigate what you're executing in your system, as opposed to find what fedora does under the hood during install, you might find Arch install is nice an simple.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by astrobe_ »

KarlKemp wrote: post #58

I'll be forever grateful for what GitHub has done for the OSS community. People today don't remember what they replaced, namely Sourceforge and various home-grown tools of various levels of dysfunction. Would anyone doubt that open source contributions, and individual contributers even more so, have grown by an order of magnitude or more in the last decade or so? And that GitHub's process improvements and standardisa…

> [...] always enforced with that very special enthusiasm stale organisations devote to policing arbitrary norms because that's the sole remaining source of the old timer's power differential. Or at least that's how it seemed to me, for I never felt courageous enough to try.

Why the same people that seem afraid of email, can however gratuitously accuse others of being on an ego trip on a public forum, I wonder.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by type0 »

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #74
mschuster91 wrote: post #28

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The Community Edition is open source.

The community edition is a castrated mess with ads in it. I administrate a gitlab instance for a university and gitlab is hurting me in so many ways. 1) it had a message that tells you that the elastic search is so much better and that your admin can enable it (if he would only switch to enterprise) 2) it pretends to have functionality only to have it hidden behind an "available in ee" banner 3) it has a new function…

How about antispam features, are those still only for Enterprise?

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by jcelerier »

lillecarl wrote: post #57
rxhernandez wrote: post #50

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This past year, on my Thinkpad P50, I've switched between Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch; Arch has by far been the least buggy. With Ubuntu, things would go haywire when docking/undocking. With Fedora, putting it to sleep was always a risk because after putting it to sleep I would sometimes I would open up my laptop to a black screen that I couldn't recover from. I was fine with that and just wouldn't put my laptop to slee…

This fragmentation between what works on what dists makes me sad. Philosophically I've always admired BSD for the consistency, considering how there's just 3-ish of them, realistically I'm a Manjaro user as I don't have enough Linux-fu to set Arch up.

> This fragmentation between what works on what dists makes me sad. Philosophically I've always admired BSD for the consistency,

what use is that consistency if even all combined together they only support a percent of the consumer hardware support that the average Linux distro has though ?

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by pengaru »

manigandham wrote: post #55
aninteger wrote: post #44

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GL is not browsable with JavaScript disabled while GH is.

Why is this a hard sell? How many people does this really affect? And why disable JS on GL?

I run noscript without any whitelist at all, and considering how popular noscript is I doubt I'm alone here.

It makes the modern web so much more pleasant, paradoxically by breaking it, now that user-hostile machinations are the norm.

And yes, gitlab's web interface is substantially more annoying than github, in my experience.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by tjoff »

BlackLotus89 wrote: post #74
mschuster91 wrote: post #28

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The Community Edition is open source.

The community edition is a castrated mess with ads in it. I administrate a gitlab instance for a university and gitlab is hurting me in so many ways. 1) it had a message that tells you that the elastic search is so much better and that your admin can enable it (if he would only switch to enterprise) 2) it pretends to have functionality only to have it hidden behind an "available in ee" banner 3) it has a new function…

Are ads a new thing? I self host gitlab but haven't used the UI much as it is only a personal repo.

Re: Xfce switches to GitLab

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Post by neunnech »

manigandham wrote: post #55
aninteger wrote: post #44

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GL is not browsable with JavaScript disabled while GH is.

Why is this a hard sell? How many people does this really affect? And why disable JS on GL?

In some cases "I'm browsing GitLab" might be the exact impetus for someone's attempt to disable JS. As noted above, GitLab is sluggish. I was an early adopter/advocate for GitLab, but you can feel the bloat on every page and I no longer use it.
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