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Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by [deleted] »

twunde wrote: post #18
koito17 wrote: post #4

How does this compare to e.g. Forgejo, Gitea, Gogs, self-hosted GitLab, or other alternatives? Forgejo in particular has self-hosted actions runners that can be registered offline, and the runners themselves can be given labels and execute most existing GitHub actions (in fact, the yaml format they use is intentionally meant to be compatible with GitHub actions). While the Pipelines UI looks nice, it hides all the ve…

Harness actually came from the opposite direction where they started out with CD, bought a CI comment (drone.io if memory serves) and are now introducing git hosting. So it's likely CI/CD is better than the git hosting

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Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by lolinder »

eka1 wrote: post #20

So here's the GitHub project: https://github.com/harness/gitness How does the project already have 27k stars? Surely this was not public before? Or do you think drone always had this product?

Looking at the forks list, it looks like they converted their old "drone" repo into the "gitness" repo:

https://github.com/harness/gitness/forks

So the stars all carried over.

The old drone link now redirects to gitness:

https://github.com/harness/drone

Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by eka1 »

lolinder wrote: post #22
eka1 wrote: post #20

So here's the GitHub project: https://github.com/harness/gitness How does the project already have 27k stars? Surely this was not public before? Or do you think drone always had this product?

Looking at the forks list, it looks like they converted their old "drone" repo into the "gitness" repo: https://github.com/harness/gitness/forks So the stars all carried over. The old drone link now redirects to gitness: https://github.com/harness/drone

You are right, this PR is where they introduced git to drone: https://github.com/harness/gitness/pull/3364/

Would have been awesome to see this as a separate project, but I guess they would like to ride the drone CI wave. I like drone, unsure about including git in there

Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by rustd »

lazypenguin wrote: post #8

Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor which hosts their open-source code...on GitHub... with a prominent call to arms on their landing page to star their repository...on GitHub... If you don't even use your own product why should anyone else use it?

We have been using Gitness to develop Gitness for the last 6 months. We do mirror on GitHub as a backup. But we also want to meet the community where they exist today, which is GitHub.

Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by aatd86 »

lolinder wrote: post #16
troymc wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be right, but there are already many products out there that have been violating that trademark policy for quite some time, e.g. GitLab, GitKraken, SmartGit, ... My guess is that Software Freedom Conservancy (a nonprofit) has more important things to do than go after those projects for trademark policy violations.

Some of those were specifically grandfathered in to the policy [0]: > Careful readers among you may now be wondering about GitHub, GitLab, Gitolite, etc. And now we get back to why it took over a year to get the trademark granted. > The USPTO initially rejected our application as confusingly similar to the existing trademark on GitHub, which was filed in 2008. While one might imagine where the "Git" in GitHub comes f…

That's kind of an unfair advantage for github.

I'm pretty sure that many beginners think that git == github.

Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by lolinder »

rustd wrote: post #25
lazypenguin wrote: post #8

Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor which hosts their open-source code...on GitHub... with a prominent call to arms on their landing page to star their repository...on GitHub... If you don't even use your own product why should anyone else use it?

We have been using Gitness to develop Gitness for the last 6 months. We do mirror on GitHub as a backup. But we also want to meet the community where they exist today, which is GitHub.

If you don't mind me asking since you're here: will you be implementing ForgeFed in Gitness [0]? My sense is that federation is our best hope for breaking GitHub's network effects, and I'd love to see more projects like yours join the protocol.

[0] https://forgefed.org/

Re: Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

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Post by williamstein »

rustd wrote: post #25
lazypenguin wrote: post #8

Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor which hosts their open-source code...on GitHub... with a prominent call to arms on their landing page to star their repository...on GitHub... If you don't even use your own product why should anyone else use it?

We have been using Gitness to develop Gitness for the last 6 months. We do mirror on GitHub as a backup. But we also want to meet the community where they exist today, which is GitHub.

Could you provide some sort of status report about what Gitness actually is? According to the Git repo it looks like it started Feb 2, 2014, and Brad Rydzewski did the vast majority of the work on the project (e.g., 100x more than anybody else), and is still involved now. I downloaded it and tried it out (which is VERY easy to do), and the actual software seems to be a Typescript frontend and Go backend, with Monaco for a code editor, and nice diff view. I tried importing a very large repository, and it took a while, but did fully work, and browsing the repo after import was fast. It's Apache-2.0 licensed (thanks!). Was it open source from the beginning?
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