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Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by klaruz » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

Why do I rarely see Gitblit talked about as an open source alternative to GitHub? It does a lot: http://gitblit.com/features.html, including a well thought out ticket workflow: http://gitblit.com/tickets_overview.html It's also very easy to install, since it only needs a JVM.

I started using it after getting frustrated with Gitlab's install process on RHEL (a year ago), and I used Gitolite before that. Gitblit has been refreshingly simple to deal with. Am I missing something other than the standard JVM hate?

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by alkonaut » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

Still looking for a good locally deployable github alternative that has decent issue tracker (i.e. youtrack/jira/tfs level of customization and planinng support) AND pull request support. Are there any? Is this it?

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by epriest » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

Navarr wrote: post #15

Rafert wrote: post #8

What experiences do people have with http://phabricator.org/ ? It's not a GitHub clone but it does seem very complete, possibly replacing Jira and Stash if you're into the Atlassian ecosystem.

I played with it a little bit once for a small personal project. It seems to have all the features you want, but the way you used them never really clicked with me. Unlike Stash, GitLab, GitHub, Gogs, or others of that nature - though - it expects you to setup your git repositories elsewhere (at least the last time I used it) instead of acting as a receiving host for them (at least the last time I used it - which was…

This has changed; we've supported hosted repositories since late 2013.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by izolate » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:08 PM UTC

taylorlapeyre wrote: post #28

apetresc wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"No pull requests" and "It's a full on GitHub replacement" seem like incompatible statements.

Yeah, no pull requests is an instant deal breaker.

They'll be included in some near future release. See this: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/5

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by jumpwah » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

I know this is on the front page of https://gogs.io, and also that gogs is made to be self hosted, but have a look at https://notabug.org as a website to host git repositories which runs its own version of gogs.

I am not affiliated with the project.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by le_lenny_face » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:10 PM UTC

Anything to discourage a GitHub monoculture is a good thing, IMO.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by solutionyogi » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

Why are they not dogfooding?

If they will use Github to develop Gogs, the potential audience may think why they should not use Github itself.

I am not trying to put them down, it's very difficult to dog food when your product is in its early state but their page suggests that they already support Issue Tracking. I think it is in a state where they can use Gogs to develop Gogs. This will ensure that they work on those items which affects developers the most.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by treve » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

doughj3 wrote: post #12

alexcason wrote: post #2

At what point does it become a concern when you're just ripping off the UI of a competing product?

Something something good artists, great artists? Personally I feel for pieces of software like this it's fair to more or less clone the user interface. There's a lot of effort built up in understanding how to use this tool. Think of the complaints LibreOffice gets for not looking enough like Word, or GIMP for not looking enough like Photoshop. Plus, Gitlab is already open source, so can you really call it "ripping of…

It's one thing to offer the same UI elements and experience, it's another thing to make it look identical in colors, spacing, fonts, icons, etc... They took it quite far imho.

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by codewithcheese » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

"But what if you’re writing some Android app, maybe you’re building the next great iOS game or in general, you’re writing some code that you don’t want to be exposed to the general public ?

You could certainly purchase access to private Github repositories, but most certainly you’d rather want to invest your capital in more pressing matters."

... BitBucket!

Re: Gogs, an alternative to Gitlab

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Post by eswat » Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #29

ctvo wrote: post #21

What's the value of hosting your own Github alternative as an organization / company? Do people have on-premise requirements and don't want to pay for Github enterprise? I assume most start-ups don't and 25 USD for 10 private repositories isn't going to break the bank.

Actually, $12 a month for 10 private repos.

That pricing is for Individual accounts, not Organizations. $25 for 10 private repos is accurate for the latter.