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GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by kstrauser »

Catbert59 wrote: post #24
reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

GitLab is great - but super fat. The performance will suffer heavily if you don't give it the resources it wants (all RAM you can find, lol). If you only need Git plus project tracking Gitea is super mature. It runs happily on small VPS.

I prefer Forgejo, but both it and Gitea support actions like GitHub's. You can have a nice CI/CD pipeline that runs 100% in-house, for free. I adore it for personal projects.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by brownriceowl »

dcchambers wrote: post #7

> GitHub moving into Core AI team On the one hand, this probably means it gets the funding it needs to keep going strong. On the other hand, I'm worried that this means that GitHub is going to focus exclusively on building AI features while the core product becomes stale/abandoned.

Did GitHub have a funding problem? They doubled revenue last year, with 40% of that coming from GitHub Copilot. I imagine that for 2025, the increase will be much higher than even that.

I expect that the problem that Microsoft aims to fix is that people can use GitHub effortlessly without locking into Azure and Power Platform

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Post by felixgallo »

yoran wrote: post #22
reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

I feel like all new AI tools only integrate with GitHub though, like Claude Code. We're actually thinking of moving from GitLab to GitHub, just for this reason.

Claude works great with forgejo/gitea. It's all just git, after all.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by dcchambers »

reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

> No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

Yes and no. If all you want is a remote git server then no, there's not. But there's plenty of legitimate reasons to use a SaaS tool like GitHub.

Re: GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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Post by mdaniel »

reversengineer wrote: post #17

GitLab is like, really good. No need to put your codebase in the "cloud."

In my experience, the "really good" is that it comes batteries included:

- completely docker based CI/CD which makes reasoning about what it's going to do easier than "read through some minified .js from some rando"

- they do have composable CI/CD akin to the GitHub Actions marketplace, but I haven't used it as much in anger to speak to how valuable it is versus "competitive checkbox feature"

- built-in Terraform State, so no more S3 + Dynamo

- highly configurable JWT claim curation for ease of OIDC based access from the pipelines

- good integration between the platform and multiple Kubernetes clusters

- related to that, a strong "review environment" setup

- they were also hinting at being a Sentry replacement, but regrettably I had to switch back to GitHub before that came out of preview so I don't this second know where it stands

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