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

Hi mosselman, just curious to know why GitLab doesn't fit your need.

I am not sure that it doesn't. I found it a bit of a pain to setup the last time I tried though. Apart from that I mostly meant 'apart from Gitlab' because I have already played around with it and was looking for a fun new thing to try out.

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

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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…

Cool suggestion, I will give it a try. Great that it works with existing repos.

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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.

Too bad that it doesn't have pull requests, but that still makes it acceptable for private projects. Might just be the excuse for buying another raspberry ;).

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

There's https://kallithea-scm.org , but I haven't tried it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really like the interface though. Meat looks a lot nicer.

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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…

Open source would be really great and a must for me to consider running it.

However, I don't understand the apparent outrage and flaming going on by others here. If you guys would've only had a payed plan without the option to self-run there would've been no problem. You offer self-hosting for free, something that you'd pay for with other services, and you are suddenly seen as the bad guys. Very strange.

Congrats on a very nice looking tool :).

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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…

Hi there Meat folks! Congratulations on the release, it looks really nice. Can you elaborate on the reasons for making something new? Feature wise GitLab CI already has deploy jobs, the only thing I see that is still missing from GitLab are chained builds http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...

sytse, our deployment system is completely different from yours - I think the best idea is that you leave your email at our site http://getmeat.io and we'll send you an invite next week so you can check it out for yourself.

I think that comparing Meat! to GitLab is more like comparing Star Wars to Star Trek (choose whichever you like best) than, say, choosing between the the Lannisters and House Targaryen :)

Cheers!

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Hi mosselman, just curious to know why GitLab doesn't fit your need.

I am not sure that it doesn't. I found it a bit of a pain to setup the last time I tried though. Apart from that I mostly meant 'apart from Gitlab' because I have already played around with it and was looking for a fun new thing to try out.

OK, thanks for the feedback. Installation has become much easier over the years. Please let me know if you run into any problems with https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
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