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Sorry, it would have been better to say we acquired them, thanks for noting this.
BTW, One of your testimonials on your landing page bashes Gitorious (which no longer exists and is part of your company): > “Gitlab is an excellent option….. not only more user friendly than Gitorious but also easier to install.”
Anyone else scared of the Github monoculture? I am. For all the touted distributed version control advantages we now have one world global centralized repo. Yeah, yeah, I know you can clone it locally. But of course if all the issues, and testing, and build tools are tied to Github. Isn't it a bit disconcerting? Maybe I am just paranoid. And not saying that Google code was going anywhere, I saw more and more projects…
What to do about it?
* Use other would-be global centralized repo to create competition, eg Gitlab.com (or if you demand 100% FLOSS, maybe notabug.org though it is a very long shot for achieving such centrality)
* Discount centralization benefits and self host, eg using gitlab, gogs (which notabug runs), kallithea, or various other FLOSS code hosting applications
* Work making migration between hosts easier (eg issue and other configuration import/export)
* Work on harder problems of federation among code hosts; distributed bug trackers have been reinvented many times but never taken off, but maybe just the right approach hasn't taken off yet, or maybe there is something in federated social web approaches
* Do one or more of the above and treat Github as marketing and backup for your main platform (or vice versa), analogous to what the indieweb people recommend for dominant social networks http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE
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BTW, One of your testimonials on your landing page bashes Gitorious (which no longer exists and is part of your company): > “Gitlab is an excellent option….. not only more user friendly than Gitorious but also easier to install.”
more of a comparison than a bash, lets be fair.
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> Currently there is absolutely no reason to use Gitlab. http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/05/to-get-off-russias-blacklis... Since you used the words, "absolutely no reason", here's a counterpoint: as part of an anti-censorship hydra effort. All X is Y. At least one X is not Y. ^-- contradiction :)
> Since you used the words, "absolutely no reason", here's a counterpoint: as part of an anti-censorship hydra effort. I don't see how this is relevant at all? First of all github did not remove that content, it IP blocked it. Secondly what do you think that gitlab would do if they would be hit by this? Do you think it's better for github to go down for Russia entirely? Imagine that would be your proposal for what gi…
Maybe "generally no reason" would be better?
Anyone else scared of the Github monoculture? I am. For all the touted distributed version control advantages we now have one world global centralized repo. Yeah, yeah, I know you can clone it locally. But of course if all the issues, and testing, and build tools are tied to Github. Isn't it a bit disconcerting? Maybe I am just paranoid. And not saying that Google code was going anywhere, I saw more and more projects…
Ugh. No, not that Google Code is shutting down, per se. The alternatives are better and for active projects there is plenty of time to migrate. What I object to is that the site will only be preserved in read-only mode for 5 months, despite its popularity and the resulting large number of deep links into it on the Web. Why not forever? git, hg, and I believe svn can all provide read-only access (with some bandwidth o…
> Lately, the administrative load has consisted almost exclusively of abuse management.
They see Google Code as a time-sink, and they're probably right, and it's not surprising to me that they'd drop something that is no longer serving it's intended purpose, but instead has negative implications for their model. Keeping it going forward would require even more hands-on humans, so they scrap it.
As for the deep links, one of the Google Code devs did mention[1]:
> I work on Google Code, and we will be putting a service in place to redirect deep links to project homepages, issues, etc. to their new locations.
His comment also contains a link to a wiki with more information on how to opt-in to this service.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-go...
Does this mean Chromium is also moving away from Google Code? I'm curious how Google plans to migrate almost 500,000 bug reports. I'm expecting Google to purchase GitHub next in order to improve its deficiencies. In particular code search, which is really poor. Google Code search is good, so Google can then apply its search expertise "in-house". https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch Maybe it's just habitual,…
At least for Android bug reports, Google mostly ignores them and closes them all as obsolete every release even though they weren't fixed. So I don't think they'll have any problem ditching Chromium bug reports. I've heard they have an internal bug tracker anyway, so the public ones like b.android.com are just jokes on people who don't know any better.
The chromium bugtracker is very active and the chromium developers are very open and helpful on it.
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> Since you used the words, "absolutely no reason", here's a counterpoint: as part of an anti-censorship hydra effort. I don't see how this is relevant at all? First of all github did not remove that content, it IP blocked it. Secondly what do you think that gitlab would do if they would be hit by this? Do you think it's better for github to go down for Russia entirely? Imagine that would be your proposal for what gi…
You said "absolutely no reason" and I gave you an edge case that invalidates your statement. Maybe "generally no reason" would be better?
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Obviously GitHub is much larger, but some projects are moving to GitLab, such as GnuTLS https://twitter.com/GnuTLS/status/573155639683248128 Bitbucket is also mentioned even though they don't have a lot of public projects. GitLab is open source, has a great interface, many features (protected branches, git-annex support) and we offer unlimited (private) repositories on GitLab.com
GnuTLS did not move, they were moved because Gitorious got acquired by gitlab.
Hi Chris, GitLab CEO here. What do you think about mentioning Gitlab.com as an alternative for people to move to? It has unlimited (private) projects and unlimited collaborators. It is based the open source GitLab project.
I would love to see the option to move from Google code to GitLab.