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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 mdaniel »

rustd wrote: post #28
nik736 wrote: post #12

I can’t find any screenshots, am I missing something?

Here’s a short overview video of the product. https://youtu.be/TDEIiVuM6IY?si=MFP6bpMMUGMxUQCp

that was helpful, thank you

"upgrade to harness software delivery platform" https://youtu.be/TDEIiVuM6IY?t=96> ... to do what? https://docs.gitness.com/ makes no such mention of upgrading or why anyone would want to

and of course it's got all the AIz https://youtu.be/TDEIiVuM6IY?t=118 which I'd presume is this https://www.harness.io/products/aida and yet https://www.harness.io/legal/aida-terms says "AIDA may utilize multiple generative AI systems, including those from third parties, to generate Output. These systems may include various models, algorithms, and datasets. As a result, the Output generated by AIDA may incorporate contributions from different sources. Harness is not responsible for such third parties’ acts or omissions in relation to the processing of Submissions, or generation of Output." which feels kind of like a cop-out in a document entitled "AIDA Terms"

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

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Post by xjia »

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.

Do you do code reviews during development?

I ran it locally and couldn't find my way to go from a conversation to its code context. Nothing is clickable. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/kk8wLIK

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

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Post by prepend »

inferiorhuman wrote: post #36
prepend wrote: post #5

> There hasn’t been a new Git repo launch in almost a decade,” Bansal told me. “Now you have GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket from Atlassian, but that’s really it Seems odd that he wouldn’t know about Sourcehut (2018) and Gitea (2016).

Mind you I use (and thus pay for) Sourcehut: the vast majority of folks won't be cross shopping Sourcehut and GitHub. As it stands now the UX is (to put it charitably) bad. There's a lot to like, but overall Sourcehut is disjointed rather than cohesive. The workflow itself is also an acquired taste. With a bit of spit and polish Sourcehut could be quite nice to use, but it's not there yet. Hell, I bet Drew could pick…

I bet there will be more sourcehut customers than this person’s new offering.

He doesn’t even know his competitors.

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

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Post by inferiorhuman »

internetter wrote: post #40
inferiorhuman wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind you I use (and thus pay for) Sourcehut: the vast majority of folks won't be cross shopping Sourcehut and GitHub. As it stands now the UX is (to put it charitably) bad. There's a lot to like, but overall Sourcehut is disjointed rather than cohesive. The workflow itself is also an acquired taste. With a bit of spit and polish Sourcehut could be quite nice to use, but it's not there yet. Hell, I bet Drew could pick…

> Hell, I bet Drew could pick up some of the UX folks that GitHub laid off. Drew would never.

Yeah, ideally he wouldn't.

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

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Post by sbandi »

xjia wrote: post #62
rustd wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you do code reviews during development? I ran it locally and couldn't find my way to go from a conversation to its code context. Nothing is clickable. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/kk8wLIK

Thank you for the feedback. We are working on addressing this soon.

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

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Post by permissionrate »

Roark66 wrote: post #43

It is interesting how many teams and even large businesses fall into the github/gitlab/atlassian trap. I worked for a couple that spend a shit-ton of money to have some measure of "cloud agnostics" while they throw out their Jenkins servers and they migrate all of their cicd to github, gitlab or atlassian. With github it is a SaaS service. With Gitlab, they have an "enterprise" version. In quotes because the "enterpr…

When you say Gitlab "enterprise" is this the on-prem version or something else? They do have SaaS too right?

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

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Post by az09mugen »

prepend wrote: post #5

> There hasn’t been a new Git repo launch in almost a decade,” Bansal told me. “Now you have GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket from Atlassian, but that’s really it Seems odd that he wouldn’t know about Sourcehut (2018) and Gitea (2016).

And Onedev also : https://github.com/theonedev/onedev

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

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Post by remram »

lolinder wrote: post #57
remram wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Codeberg is a service not a separate software. Just like you wouldn't count salsa.debian.org or framagit.org as separate from GitLab, they are the same with maybe some local customization.

At this point Codeberg is clearly distinct from Gitea and is more thoroughly open-source in its nature than anything Harness is going to bring out, but yes, you could combine it with Forgejo if that feels more fair.

At this point Codeberg is running Forgejo not Gitea.

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

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Post by bradrydzewski »

prepend wrote: post #5

> There hasn’t been a new Git repo launch in almost a decade,” Bansal told me. “Now you have GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket from Atlassian, but that’s really it Seems odd that he wouldn’t know about Sourcehut (2018) and Gitea (2016).

This is probably my fault. Internally at Harness I have been hyping this launch as a "once in a decade" event. That unfortunately got translated into "first in a decade" when it hit the press. I do think the launch of a new, major open source Source Control system with kind of investment (12 full time engineers and counting) is a rare event, but I do wish it was worded differently. Nothing we can do about it now!
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