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Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

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Re: Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

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Post by nutate »

mosselman wrote: post #10

Are there open-source alternatives apart from Gitlab that anyone can recommend? I must say that Meat looks very good.

Gogs is interesting but it doesn't have a full pull request workflow built in. It runs on super small hw requirements which makes it nice if you just want to use it for yourself.

Re: Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

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Post by espadrine »

davexunit wrote: post #8

This is non-free, actually. What's the point of self-hosting proprietary software?

Open-source is not just about the product's source being visible. They would need people to review patches, venues to interact with contributors, a policy to publicize future features to avoid clashing with contributors' work…

Re: Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

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Post by sytse »

patricksanders wrote: post #3

Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see how it is.

GitLab CEO here, I would love to know what kind of heavy is the problem you're experiencing, hard to setup? hard to upgrade? cpu/ram/disk usage? too many features?

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Post by m4tthumphrey »

patricksanders wrote: post #3

Looks pretty nice. I've been using/administering GitLab for our company, but I've always found it a bit heavy for our needs. I might give this a shot and see how it is.

Do you mind if I ask why you think it's "heavy" ? I've been using it for about 3 years now and think it's an awesome tool. It's done me very proud at two different companies, as well as a personal install.

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Post by ajmurmann »

davexunit wrote: post #8

This is non-free, actually. What's the point of self-hosting proprietary software?

Maybe you don't want another company to be able to look at your IP. Or maybe you want or need to hold yourself to a higher security standard then hosted alternatives. If your code is hosted with a third party out on the Internet, your own service now is only as secure as that third parties.

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

ajmurmann wrote: post #17
davexunit wrote: post #8

This is non-free, actually. What's the point of self-hosting proprietary software?

Maybe you don't want another company to be able to look at your IP. Or maybe you want or need to hold yourself to a higher security standard then hosted alternatives. If your code is hosted with a third party out on the Internet, your own service now is only as secure as that third parties.

It's just weird to combine "free" with "proprietary" in a self-hosted context. If it's free and self-hosted, why are they not allowing access to the source? Considering the possibility of your IP being leaked by a proprietary program on your server, maybe that higher security standard should include an open requirement.

Re: Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

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Post by jfdk »

mosselman wrote: post #10

Are there open-source alternatives apart from Gitlab that anyone can recommend? I must say that Meat looks very good.

http://phabricator.org is actually really great. It started in-house at Facebook. We've been using for the better part of year and I absolutely love it's code and design review tools. It also has a really nice CLI for managing your different reviews. Oh, and you don't have to worry about actually hosting the repos yourself (not worth the headache to me), you can just connect it to your github repo.

Don't be scared by the fact that it's done in PHP. It's actually really well done is very active in bringing out new updates and features.

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