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Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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> "testing in production" indeed. One of my repos has been stuck in limbo for over 2 months now > after I attempted to migrate it to a group namespace from my own profile. Have you created an issue for this on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues ?

Yes I have, there was no response to it and it was recently closed, I believe.

Could you link the issue so we can look into it?

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #101

GitLab is unusable without JavaScript enabled. It's disappointing to see free software projects even consider adopting it.

Just navigated my own running instance of gitlab-omnibus with Firefox's javascript.enabled set to false. It looks fine to me-- I can navigate, view the issues, and presumably post comments.

What is it that you are claiming is unusable without JavaScript?

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #26

GNOME already started, check out https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME

Their infrastructure tracker has a lot of interesting info about the move[0]. You can also read through the development mailing list, it has a lot of discussion about the GitLab migration.

At GitLab we're tracking the blocking issues they've brought up in this issue[2].

[0]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Infrastructure/issues [1]: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/ [2]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35287

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #56

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We claim it based on the assumption that almost all very large companies (enterprise) host their own source code and they are switching to git. We have 2/3 market share with self hosted git as shown with two data points https://about.gitlab.com/is-it-any-good/#gitlab-has-23-marke... I'll consider adding the rationale to the page. We're seeing organizations adopt SaaS but the largest companies tend to be the last ones…

I dunno. I do R&D tax credit studies for hundreds of enterprise software firms and I always ask what version control system(s) they use and where/how it is hosted. I would guesstimate between a third and a half use GitLab in some capacity. And even then a lot of the time it's only for some teams or some projects. I do work with a disproportionate number of MS shops and a disproportionate number of medium to large com…

> a disproportionate number of MS shops

What breakdown of version control systems you seeing? If between a third and a half use GitLab I would love to know what the rest are using.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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post #101

GitLab is unusable without JavaScript enabled. It's disappointing to see free software projects even consider adopting it.

Just navigated my own running instance of gitlab-omnibus with Firefox's javascript.enabled set to false. It looks fine to me-- I can navigate, view the issues, and presumably post comments. What is it that you are claiming is unusable without JavaScript?

I can't register, because the "Register" tab on https://gitlab.gnome.org/users/sign_in doesn't work.

Issues (such as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/json-glib/issues/26) show the initial message, but not the comments.

(I'm sure that's just tip of the iceberg.)

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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I was under the impression that Debian is in the process of moving to Pagure [1]. The reasons mentioned in the LWN article are not invalidated by Gitlab's announcement of dropping the CLA. [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/724986/

Based on the Debian Wiki, plans have since changed[0] (unless this page is outdated?). That LWN article is from June, the wiki article was last edited in September.

My understanding from the mailing list is that they're planning on using GitLab, at least that's what I heard last. I could always be wrong.

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Deprecation_of_Alioth

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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> GitLab, a software product used by 2/3 of all enterprises, ... This claim is false. The linked survey shows that GitLab has a 2/3 market share in self-hosted Git providers. Not every enterprise self-hosts a git repository.

I bought this up on HN in the past[1], but it gets instantly downvoted( by gitlab employees?) , my comment was a response to CEO claiming how their marketing is honest[2]. They also declared Gitlab CI as number one CI by excluding Jenkins because of their made up defintion of "modern" . 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15590240 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589654

To be completely honest, Jenkins is garbage slow enterprise tier. GitLab CI Runner is a pleasure to work with. Jenkins was hosted on our production box, and it used to freeze up whenever someone pushed.

Marketing folks aren't technical enough to understand CI anyway. This is why marketing folks shouldn't step on us tech folks toes - you'll just look like an idiot and end up embarrassing yourself.

Re: Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I bought this up on HN in the past[1], but it gets instantly downvoted( by gitlab employees?) , my comment was a response to CEO claiming how their marketing is honest[2]. They also declared Gitlab CI as number one CI by excluding Jenkins because of their made up defintion of "modern" . 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15590240 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589654

Last time I checked Jenkins is a modern CI product.

Depends on your definition of modern. I don't really care what you call it, the fact of the matter is that it's slow and an inferior product.
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