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Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by Froyoh »

_wmd wrote: post #19
copremesis wrote: post #15

I'm surprised out of all the drama surrounding M$ purchase of GitHub I haven't seen many mentions of BitBucket https://bitbucket.org/ I've been using this for years now since you get free private repos.

pre-Atlassian BitBucket was a lovely app, then they landed that Web 9.0 JS abomination redesign. Because waiting 30 seconds for uncached Javascript assets to load while on the clock is totally acceptable, when all you really need is 500 bytes worth of a Git directory listing to render. Left feedback, no response. Left feedback again, still no response. Moved everything to GitLab. It's really hard to see great apps li…

You should try the new BitBucket, it's awesome.

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by mikekchar »

durandal1 wrote: post #6

But instead of only the code being handled by the VCS, why not make the wiki and tracker distributed too? Fossil: https://fossil-scm.org/ Notable user: https://sqlite.org/whynotgit.html

I'm going to give Fossil a try, mainly because it is the only thing I've seen that has everything that I currently want. I'm a little bit worried about the Cathedral/Bazaar approach... I really like the idea that every copy of the source code is an implied branch. However, I suspect that I will have few enough collaborators for it to be of any matter.

Their characterisation of GPL vs BSD licensing in the git vs fossil comparison is frustrating though. I wonder if there is a way to convince them to update it because it really reduces their credibility. I'm specifically referring to "the GPL license grants the right to read source code to anyone who promises to give back enhancements". This is just completely incorrect. From the GPL V3: "You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions". In other words, as long as you don't "convey" (distribute) your changes, you can do whatever the heck you want (including reading the source code).

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by inferiorhuman »

Froyoh wrote: post #21
_wmd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pre-Atlassian BitBucket was a lovely app, then they landed that Web 9.0 JS abomination redesign. Because waiting 30 seconds for uncached Javascript assets to load while on the clock is totally acceptable, when all you really need is 500 bytes worth of a Git directory listing to render. Left feedback, no response. Left feedback again, still no response. Moved everything to GitLab. It's really hard to see great apps li…

You should try the new BitBucket, it's awesome.

Is BitBucket still an Atlassian product?

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by notpeter »

Froyoh wrote: post #21
_wmd wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

pre-Atlassian BitBucket was a lovely app, then they landed that Web 9.0 JS abomination redesign. Because waiting 30 seconds for uncached Javascript assets to load while on the clock is totally acceptable, when all you really need is 500 bytes worth of a Git directory listing to render. Left feedback, no response. Left feedback again, still no response. Moved everything to GitLab. It's really hard to see great apps li…

You should try the new BitBucket, it's awesome.

You and I have different standards of awesome. Mine does not include placeholders following every click.

https://cl.ly/3p3a2e3C0K2T

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by kuberstone »

I compared in details both rhodecode and kallithea for our org

ui is something personal i guess, both aren't perfect. For usage in 50+ users enterprise rhodecode is much better.

It has more features, and it feels this project is actually moving forward contrary to kallithea https://www.mail-archive.com/kallithea-general@sfconservancy...

The only thing we liked more is GPL license over AGPl of rhodecode

Re: Kallithea – Aself-hosted alternative to GitHub

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Post by hawski »

mikekchar wrote: post #16
everdev wrote: post #12

Isn't GitLab a self-hosted alternative to GitHub?

Yes. But it's not the only one. I think the question you were hoping to have answered is, "Why would you pick this over GitLab?". And potentially the discussion you wanted to invoke was, "Is there an advantage to going with a full free software solution as opposed to a product that is primarily proprietary, but has an open core?" Personally, I think there is, but in the case of GitLab it may not matter. Now that ther…

In a way AFAIK Gnome and Debian moved to GitLab, because, among other reasons, they did not have enough horse power to maintain their own solution - plethora of services. Of course if the GitLab would fold, they would maintain it, but I'm not sure they would be better off than before in case of work allocation at least.
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