Meat – A free self-hosted Git collaboration platform

Post by metasean » Fri, May 22, 2015, 5:26 PM UTC

nutate wrote: post #11

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.

Post by sytse » Fri, May 22, 2015, 5:39 PM UTC

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Not just a proprietary license: a license written by someone who doesn't understand how licenses should be written. IF YOU DO NOT OWN THE SOFTWARE, THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, COPY OR USE THE SOFTWARE. vs You further acknowledge that title and full ownership rights to the Software will remain the exclusive property of BigHit and/or its suppliers, There are all kinds of other bush-league errors and naive contradict…

Hi guys, Alexander from Meat! over here. Thanks for expressing your concern, it's totally understandable and we appreciate that. Now, to clear things up: we're a team of 10 and we spent an entire year on developing Meat!, day in, day out. To be honest, the license was our least concern, we just wanted to give you software that wouldn't be just another GitLab clone (hi there GitLab folks!) and we didn't devote the lic…

Post by sytse » Fri, May 22, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

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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?

Mostly, RAM problem. We have a budget server with 1G RAM, had to restart Gitlab everyday, otherwise we get constant 500 errors.

Post by sytse » Fri, May 22, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

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i think it's something like gitlab with free option 3 repos max.

Except that Gitlab has an open-source community edition, and a visible-source enterprise edition. Meat seems to be entirely proprietary and closed-source.

Post by bahaagalal » Fri, May 22, 2015, 6:05 PM UTC

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How do people find and respond to any mention of their company on HN? I get why you'd want to, it's fantastic PR to seem/be so engaged with your users, but where do you find the time? Is there some monitoring service that notifies you whenever any keyword is mentioned on social media?

Thanks for appreciating our effort. Responding takes a lot of time but it is a lot of fun as well. We use http://notify.ly/ to ping us in a Slack channel to be able to respond fast, highly recommended.