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Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by vorpalhex »

stavros wrote: post #25
nimbius wrote: post #21

things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.

This comment strikes me as fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of GitHub. I don't care that I can set up Gitea (and I already have an instance), I want GitHub because it makes it trivial for people to issue PRs to my code. Then, because everyone has a GitHub account and knows how to use it, and everyone is already on it, everyone else goes on it too. Not to mention that I don't need to maintain CI/container re…

There was an attempt to bring a distributed forge architecture to gitea and co. The idea being the project could be hosted on one instance but you could fork to your own to do your work before PRing back to the project.

Github but bring your own.

I believe the project died out but it was a good idea. All the benefits of Github without the lock in and single point of failure.

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by zht »

stavros wrote: post #25
nimbius wrote: post #21

things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.

This comment strikes me as fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of GitHub. I don't care that I can set up Gitea (and I already have an instance), I want GitHub because it makes it trivial for people to issue PRs to my code. Then, because everyone has a GitHub account and knows how to use it, and everyone is already on it, everyone else goes on it too. Not to mention that I don't need to maintain CI/container re…

this is the dropbox comment for GitHub lol

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by shrimpx »

nimbius wrote: post #21

things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.

> it costs virtually nothing to ...

Yeah but what's the cost of a global developer social network?

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

#35

Post by activitypea »

nimbius wrote: post #21

things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.

BrandonM, is that you?

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by whateveracct »

karaterobot wrote: post #22
epolanski wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody I know self manages their git and integrations regardless of where they physically work.

I assume that commenter is referring to Gitlab's famous advocacy for remote-only work. But, it's still completely irrelevant to their earnings forecast or stock price.

That commenter is a manager, which explains why they are non sequitur-ing against remote work.

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by imron »

nimbius wrote: post #21

things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.

How much does it cost to pay someone to administer? Including backups, BCP, integration with SSO etc?

It’ll work for a 5 person startup, but will get expensive fast for larger organizations.

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

#38

Post by Spivak »

nativecoinc wrote: post #14

We use Bitbucket at work. If we switched to some other forge next week I would not care. Git forges should be expendable.

The moat is CI, or more accurately that Gitlab CI is really good and using it requires hosting your code there.

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by vlunkr »

shrimpx wrote: post #34
nimbius wrote: post #21

things like github and gitlab always struck me as oddities. it costs virtually nothing to deploy a containerized gitea and jenkins, or gitlab CE, and you have direct control over its performance and options without any spend. call me old fashioned but these online git-o-matic sites just seem more like rent-seeking during a recession.

> it costs virtually nothing to ... Yeah but what's the cost of a global developer social network?

This is important, but also, “virtually nothing” is a lie. I think self hosting can work, but you have to be honest about the costs. Deployment, maintenance, rotating logs, training others on all this.

Re: Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast

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Post by stavros »

vorpalhex wrote: post #31
stavros wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment strikes me as fundamentally misunderstanding the purpose of GitHub. I don't care that I can set up Gitea (and I already have an instance), I want GitHub because it makes it trivial for people to issue PRs to my code. Then, because everyone has a GitHub account and knows how to use it, and everyone is already on it, everyone else goes on it too. Not to mention that I don't need to maintain CI/container re…

There was an attempt to bring a distributed forge architecture to gitea and co. The idea being the project could be hosted on one instance but you could fork to your own to do your work before PRing back to the project. Github but bring your own. I believe the project died out but it was a good idea. All the benefits of Github without the lock in and single point of failure.

Yeah, that would have been really good... Too bad it doesn't seem to have come to nothing.
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