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Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by alkonaut »

brightball wrote: post #98
alkonaut wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kill Atom was the most reasonable fear I heard. And I can’t see how that wouldn’t be a well founded fear. If I was Microsoft I wouldn’t want to keep paying devs to make two so similar products (atom, code). They are much more similar than e.g code/vs or github/vsts. But even so: I agree the fear that the product will be worse in a few feels completely irrational. What I can agree with is that it’s unfortunate that it…

Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.

But... vs code is based on electron too.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by juliusmusseau »

macinjosh wrote: post #80

I am a happy gitlab.com user. However, with all of this week's news I decided to see what it would take to run my own GitLab instance. I was surprised to find that on Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user. Any cheaper/smaller instances were to anemic to run GitLab at all. Seems like there are some performance issues to deal w…

Bitbucket On-Prem (aka Bitbucket Server) is pure Java + direct git invocations, so runs very nicely on modest hardware. Can get by on 1GB RAM! (But more recommended if you have more than 10 users).

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by therein »

dismantlethesun wrote: post #61

> A couple of years ago Microsoft was anti-open-source. Both quotes are from 2001. So rather than a "couple of years ago", it was seventeen years ago. Toddlers walking the earth at that time, are now college graduates and developers working at Microsoft. Let's not think its the exact same group of people who said both statements, even if the company name is unchanged.

> Toddlers walking the earth at that time, are now college graduates and developers working at Microsoft

This is extremely true and people need to understand how important this point exactly is. I think we all agree that Microsoft will continue to exist even 50-60 years from now with the same exact name. They will have generations of programmers passed through their corporate structure with varying goals and opinions.

Tu quoque stops making sense at such timescales.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by kazinator »

keithnz wrote: post #11

"A couple of years ago Microsoft was anti-open-source." Then quotes stuff from 18 years ago.... ok

Microsoft still owes tons of people money for the "Microsoft tax": having to purchase Windows for hardware that only ever ran GNU/Linux.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

#105

Post by sfraise »

brightball wrote: post #98
alkonaut wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kill Atom was the most reasonable fear I heard. And I can’t see how that wouldn’t be a well founded fear. If I was Microsoft I wouldn’t want to keep paying devs to make two so similar products (atom, code). They are much more similar than e.g code/vs or github/vsts. But even so: I agree the fear that the product will be worse in a few feels completely irrational. What I can agree with is that it’s unfortunate that it…

Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.

We're actually working on 2 Electron apps for a very very large corporate client right now so how they handle Electron is definitely a concern for us.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by nickserv »

reificator wrote: post #40
ThatPlayer wrote: post #39

There's also BitBucket's Paid Self-Hosted option, for 10 users, and a one-time payment of 10$. It even has a docker image. https://bitbucket.org/product/pricing?tab=self-hosted https://hub.docker.com/r/atlassian/bitbucket-server/

For those looking into this option, it is important to note that Bitbucket's self-hosted option is a separate codebase that started with no link to the cloud product. Previously it was called Stash but was later rebranded to Bitbucket to reduce confusion.

Was not aware of this, thanks for the info.

Do you know if their enterprise edition is based on cloud or server?

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by pmontra »

natmaster wrote: post #32
craftyguy wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because now github is owned by a company that was formerly very hostile to open source software, and this company is magically not.

Steve Ballmer is no longer CEO. Companies are run by people - they are not people.

People can decide who to work for. If they go to a company they probably like how it is when they join it, at least a little bit.

I was contacted by a recruiting firm for an interview in Microsoft, probably in the 90s or maybe in the early 2000s. I answered no thanks.

Re: GitHub Alternatives

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Post by reificator »

nickserv wrote: post #106
reificator wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those looking into this option, it is important to note that Bitbucket's self-hosted option is a separate codebase that started with no link to the cloud product. Previously it was called Stash but was later rebranded to Bitbucket to reduce confusion.

Was not aware of this, thanks for the info. Do you know if their enterprise edition is based on cloud or server?

If you mean the Data-Centre edition, it's based on Stash. Otherwise I'm not sure I've heard of that.

Here's the FAQ from when the change was made:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/bitbucket-r...

Re: GitHub Alternatives

#110

Post by half-kh-hacker »

maineldc wrote: post #87
macinjosh wrote: post #80

I am a happy gitlab.com user. However, with all of this week's news I decided to see what it would take to run my own GitLab instance. I was surprised to find that on Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user. Any cheaper/smaller instances were to anemic to run GitLab at all. Seems like there are some performance issues to deal w…

I run a small gitlab instance on a $14/mo OVH instance and have been quite happy. I used to run on the smaller version and it was still OK.

For a small instance, I get away with running an instance of Gitea on a 2.49€/mo VPS.
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